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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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thunderchief said:
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The Yasen SSN/SSGN hybrid nuclear subs are extremely good vessels by all counts.

They have a tremendous and very varied and flexible weapons load out.

But they are building slow.

By the time these two new subs are commissioned, the Russians will have five of them, and at that point the US will be putting out its 15th Virginia class sub (and 18 if you throw the three Sea Wolfs in there). The Virginias may not be as big as the Yasens, and may not have as large or as flexible a weapons load out, but they are nonetheless very dangerous subs...and the equal to the Yasen in terms of stealth and anti-submarine warfare.

Just the same, any Yasen will be a very dangerous and capable foe. Very good technology and very good capabilities.
 
thunderchief

thunderchief

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Jeff Head said:
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By the time these two new subs are commissioned, the Russians will have five of them, and at that point the US will be putting out its 15th Virginia class sub (and 18 if you throw the three Sea Wolfs in there). The Virginias may not be as big as the Yasens, and may not have as large or as flexible a weapons load out, but they are nonetheless very dangerous subs...and the equal to the Yasen in terms of stealth and anti-submarine warfare.
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Russia don't have funds to go head-to-head with US . Russian force is primarily regional one, and more defensive in nature. Lack of numbers in SSN branch would be partially offset with SSKs .
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
One thing you never do is write Russia off otherwise you will get a nasty surprise

Right now as we speak 20,000 Russian troops are right on the Ukrainian border the way they took Crimea speaks volumes of the state of the Russian armed forces

It was lightning quick and rapid movement the use of airborne troops and air corridors used by transport helicopters brought in the special forces as a matter of fact it was a text book operation

They took the place and quickly established a perimeter and then took a defensive stance

Europe, US and NATO could and would do nothing

Afterwards everyone went on the offensive Baltic States went on offensive posture but it was too late Russia did what it had to do and there is no way in hell Crimea is going back to Ukraine that is now in Russian hands

Russia was and still is a very very strong power Royal Navy and RAF is intercepting them all the time and on the other side of the world the JMSDF is doing the same that's like 7 time zones away!!
 
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delft

Brigadier
asif iqbal said:
One thing you never do is write Russia off otherwise you will get a nasty surprise

Right now as we speak 20,000 Russian troops are right on the Ukrainian border the way they took Crimea speaks volumes of the state of the Russian armed forces

It was lightning quick and rapid movement the use of airborne troops and air corridors used by transport helicopters brought in the special forces as a matter of fact it was a text book operation

They took the place and quickly established a perimeter and then took a defensive stance

Europe, US and NATO could and would do nothing

Afterwards everyone went on the offensive Baltic States went on offensive posture but it was too late Russia did what it had to do and there is no way in hell Crimea is going back to Ukraine that is now in Russian hands

Russia was and still is a very very strong power Royal Navy and RAF is intercepting them all the time and on the other side of the world the JMSDF is doing the same that's like 7 time zones away!!
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Note that time zones in Siberia are sometimes two hours wide. The distance is nine hours, not seven.
 
Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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delft said:
Note that time zones in Siberia are sometimes two hours wide. The distance is nine hours, not seven.
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Yes...a HUGE contiguous, mainland span. The largest contiguos span in the world for any nation. Hands down.

This is an interesting off topic discussion.

If you include the fifty states, the United States spans six contiguous time zones.

Eastern (EDT) UTC-5
Central (CDT) UTC-6
Mountain (MDT) UTC-7
Pacific (PDT) UTC-8
Alaska (AKDT) UTC-9
Hawaii-Aluetian (HADT) UTC-10

Five of these are mainland spans.

However, when you add in the major US territoreis, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam (totaling about four million people), then you add three more time zones. Two of those are contiguos, making eight hours contiguous span for the United States...but then you add in the third, which is spearated from the others by three hours.

Atlantic (ADT) UTC-4
Samoa (SST) UTC-11
Chamarro (ChST) UTC +10

So, in all, from the ADT (UTC-4) to the ChST (UTC+10) you then have a time span of 11 hours for all US States and territiories.

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delft

Brigadier
Jeff Head said:
Yes...a HUGE contiguous, mainland span. The largest contiguos span in the world for any nation. Hands down.

This is an interesting off topic discussion.

If you include the fifty states, the United States spans six contiguous time zones.

Eastern (EDT) UTC-5
Central (CDT) UTC-6
Mountain (MDT) UTC-7
Pacific (PDT) UTC-8
Alaska (AKDT) UTC-9
Hawaii-Aluetian (HADT) UTC-10

Five of these are mainland spans.

However, when you add in the major US territoreis, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam (totaling about four million people), then you add three more time zones. Two of those are contiguos, making eight hours contiguous span for the United States...but then you add in the third, which is spearated from the others by three hours.

Atlantic (ADT) UTC-4
Samoa (SST) UTC-11
Chamarro (ChST) UTC +10

So, in all, from the ADT (UTC-4) to the ChST (UTC+10) you then have a time span of 11 hours for all US States and territiories.

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Asif only reckoned to the zone of Japan but Russia has another two zones to the East making eleven hours in total, all contiguous.
 
MagnumCromagnon

MagnumCromagnon

New Member
asif iqbal said:
One thing you never do is write Russia off otherwise you will get a nasty surprise

Right now as we speak 20,000 Russian troops are right on the Ukrainian border the way they took Crimea speaks volumes of the state of the Russian armed forces

It was lightning quick and rapid movement the use of airborne troops and air corridors used by transport helicopters brought in the special forces as a matter of fact it was a text book operation
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Of course they were lightning quick, Because the Russians already had a military base in Sevastopol, Crimea with a signed agreement dating all the way back in 1997 with Ukraine, and a yearly payment of $500 million to maintain it. A fact that was largely omitted in western news analysis.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Well... The thing about Time zones is they are politically adopted. And Russia went and changed them up to suit random stuff. So although they should sit in this zone or that they don't always conform at last found I think Asf is correct in the official Russian adopted zones. Unofficially Russia should have Delfts number but they chose to ignore a number of zones. The same is true for the PRC who although spread across a number of time zones only operates on Beijing time. All the other parts of the PRC modify there work hours to compensate.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
MagnumCromagnon said:
Of course they were lightning quick, Because the Russians already had a military base in Sevastopol, Crimea with a signed agreement dating all the way back in 1997 with Ukraine, and a yearly payment of $500 million to maintain it. A fact that was largely omitted in western news analysis.
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more like missed. The base operations in the Crimea were more extensive then just the naval base but there presence was used perfectly. By using the existing bases the Russians pulled a modified Trojan horse. They covered there build up for weeks using the day to day operations of the base to ship in and stage the operation. It was text book and in fact a method and battle plan that was set in the cold war.
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Jeff Head said:
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Chamarro (ChST) UTC +10

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also off-topic (can't resist :) I'm sorry): I think this is the time zone of
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and recently (was in 2009/2010, I now checked) most of the Czech population heard about them, because they complained about some "very dirty" electric power station here, but some Czech media tried to make an impression that some ultimatum had been given by that country and a war could be declared on the Czech Republic ... it was unclear though how war hostilities would look like LOL!
 
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