This thread is based on recent news events.
The Saker ( http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/ ) just posted a video; “Sunday evening with Vladimir Soloviev”, one of the most watched shows on Russian TV. Here’s the bottom line: Russian politicians, Russian media, and the Russian people believe that the USA! has declared war on Russia.
They are correct. No one disputes that a Naval Blockade is an act of war. Economic sanctions attempt to achieve the same goals. But, instead of warships, it is done with banks. So, since we are at war, let’s look at some of our enemy’s armaments.
DISCLAIMER SECTION:
Almost all the pics and data are sourced from Russia Today. Therefore, what you are looking at is 100% pure propaganda.
If you want truth, you must go to one of these sites;
—– www.usa.gov …… www.cnn.com ……. www.foxnews.com
Do not despair at what you are about to see. The USA! is the most powerful military on earth. We can kick anyone’s ass. Just ask ISIS. We can easily CRUSH Russia. A ground war with Russia would be over in a few weeks … two months, at most.
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Yesterday, the USS Mount Whitney docked in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi. Why? According to the US Embassy in Georgia it is to “promote peace and security in the region” . Bwahahahaha! It’s purely a show-of-strength, meant to intimidate. Which is weird because if a war broke out, a ship in what is basically a Big Lake, could (and would) be sunk by Russian forces within a day or two. The USS Sitting Duck. The USS Sacrificial Lamb.
Maybe that’s one (of several) reasons why Russians consider the USA! enemy Number One. According to the research conducted by the influential Russian VTSIOM center, the number of Russians who think that USA is their country’s main foe grew from 25% in 2008 …. to 73% percent currently. (Any linkage to President Oreo is purely coincidental.) More than half name China as Russia’s main friend.
“Sanctions are working!!”, says The Liar In Chief and congressional warmongers. All our allies are working as One Solid United Unit, they told us. Remember when the French said they won’t deliver the under-construction helicopter carrier to Russia? Well, they changed their mind. And, in a Big Fuck You to Amerika, they’ll be building the other one also.
A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated UNDETECTED in the Gulf of Mexico for SEVERAL WEEKS …. just miles from the US strategic nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, the home base for eight of America’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Armed with various types of torpedoes, including those with nuclear warheads, anti-submarine-warfare missiles and long-range (3,000 kilometers) nuclear cruise missiles, Akula-class subs are capable of destroying both nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. The Russians are building the next generation submarine …. seven of them.
Russia unveiled the latest version of its T-90S battle tank. The tank’s new features allow the T-90S to increase its precision during long-distance fire. The tank is also capable of automatically raising a screen against laser-guided missiles and is equipped with electromagnetic mine protection. This system includes infrared jammer, laser warning system with four laser warning receivers, grenade discharging system which produces an aerosol screen and a computerised control system.It is also fitted with NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) protection equipment. The T-90S gun can also fire the 9M119 Refleks anti-tank guided missile system. The range of the missile is 100m to 4,000m and takes 11.7 sec to reach maximum range. The system is intended to engage tanks fitted with ERA (explosive reactive armour) as well as low-flying air targets such as helicopters, at a range of up to 5km.
I am including this story for it’s value as humor. Russia just delivered five Su-25 fighter jets to help Iraq fight ISIS. Some Iraqi douchbag General said they will wage a “massive attack” on insurgents with the help of the jets and “with God’s help” defeat ISIS in the next few days. You do see the humor here, right?
Russia’s Sukhoi rocked the 50th Paris Air Show last year. Industry experts from around the world were reportedly wowed by the jet’s performance. This 4++ generation aircraft uses fifth-generation technology, and its advanced avionics, new engines, and remarkable weapons array mounted on 12 external hardpoints outperform any existing fourth-generation fighter. The only major feature that the Su-35 lacks – and which prevents it from being labeled fifth-generation – is limited stealth capability, as only some parts of its airframe are made of composite material. Nonetheless, it can detect stealth aircraft such as the US’s F-35 at a distance of over 90 kilometers.
Russia is also finalizing an advanced air engagement system (air-to-air missile) combining “fire-and-forget” guidance and “single-shot kill” ability within a single air-to-air missile. The system will frustrate ANY missile evasion maneuvers enabling a target to escape.
On the Drawing Board, 10-15 years out. The general characteristics of a 6th generation fighter are as follows: ‘extreme’ stealth, multimode fighting capabilities, the ability to destroy any kind of target in all flying regimes, from subsonic to up to 5 Mach, – about 6,000 kilometers per hour – possible fuselage self-healing potential, combined with ‘morphing’ and smart skins capabilities. The 6G aircraft is expected to boast extremely far-reaching sensors that would give a highly detailed picture of the battlefield, where every highly networked 6G aircraft would be a part of a bigger network.
This week Russia’s Chief of General Staff Nikolay Makarov stated that Russia might consider a pre-emptive strike on Europe’s ABM defenses in certain circumstances. Even the US Military considers this the most advanced missile of its kind. The Iskander was designed to overcome air defense systems. Missile files at supersonic speed, excessively maneuvers in the terminal phase of the flight and releases decoys. It’s equipped with two short-range ballistic missiles, which can be fired 16 minutes from moving, each missile can be targeted independently, and are capable of hitting moving targets, as target coordination can be adjusted while the missile is in-flight. The Iskander has several different conventional warheads, including cluster, fuel-air explosive, bunker-busting and electro-magnetic pulse. It can also carry nuclear warheads.
Tests of a new missile for the advanced version of the Russian air defense system Tor-M2 proved it is capable of shooting down challenging targets with amazing precision, hitting moving missiles …… HEAD-ON. Modern defense systems destroy targets via shrapnel from exploding warheads. Shooting down maneuverable missiles via a direct hit is a phenomenal achievement which, until now, has eluded even the most advanced military technologies. The mobile launcher currently stops for two or three seconds to launch a missile. The next version will be able to fire while moving, without stopping. The new missile’s smaller size allows for the increase of Tor-M2 ammunition from 8 to 16 rounds.
Russia is developing a sea-based missile- and space-defense system, which will be deployed in international waters. The system is expected to become an integral part of the Russian Navy.
Part of that sea-based defense system will be an upgrade to the S-400 … the S-500 ‘Prometheus’ system, which features space-defense capabilities. The S-500 will be able to engage targets in low earth orbit flying at speeds of up to 7 kilometer per second – the highest speed achievable by a ballistic missile at its highest trajectory in space.
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Conclusion: There’s NOTHING here that scures me as an Amurikan. To quote our country’s best ever Commander-In-Chief;
kick ass post stucky. thanks for this.
YEAAAAA!!!! A fuckin COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!
Whopp! Whoop!!
Thank you.
For fun you can go to this web site and compare Russia with the USA. No real comparison. If there were an all out war I think Europe would be the biggest loser, Russia appears to be armed for a ground war or another invasion with a huge amount of tanks and ground based weapons, I would assume many left over from the Cold War. No one would win a war between the two except maybe the military industrial complex.
America has a huge advantage on aircraft and ships as well as human resources aka fodder. I would assume with our extensive use of drones we would also have an advantage in that area of production as well as technology.
http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.asp?form=form&country1=United-States-of-America&country2=Russia&Submit=Compare+Countries
This link will show you that the US already has the technology to fly full sized unmanned F-16:
http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAAukPAlqE~%2coAVq1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bclid=0&bctid=2684464741001
The F-16 video will be blocked by ghostery so you will have to unblock it to see it.
Bob,
Stucky,
I do not know how you put these together with such regularity, but it is a great format and I find them extremely informative, almost as good as you recipe postings. I just wish Admin would set up a separate archive for your recipes.
Thank you,
Bob.
Time for hollywood to step up with some good ol’ propaganda!
Two toughest kids on the block, I guess, sooner or later they’re goin to fight…..
Humanity would be the loser. Because I don’t see how a conventional ground war with Russia would stay a conventional ground war. Whichever side is losing — Russia or the USA, doesn’t matter — I think it is fucking nuts to not believe it would result in nuke warfare.
And that was the whole point of this essay.
There are miltary and political leaders in NATO/USA who really fuckin believe we could launch a first-strike nuke attack on Russia ……….. and WIN!! What the goddamn fuck??? No one cares or blinks an eye. We’ll re-elect these people.
There’s a vid on Rockwell today with a top American analyst … who knows his shit about Russia. The Nazi Ukie peace deal, he believes, is nothing more than regrouping and rearming … heavily. Russia may be forced in helping Eastern Ukraine. He believe NATO/USA will send boots on the ground … yeah, that how fucked up out leaders are.
And then all hell breaks loose. Against a nation with the above weapons. When we can’t defeat raghead Iraqi/Afghan, not that that matters directly. But, it’s FUCKIN NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stucky says,
“If you want truth, you must go to one of these sites: http://www.usa.gov …… http://www.cnn.com ……. http://www.foxnews.com”
I agree wholeheartedly Stucky – by the way, yours isn’t a tongue in cheek comment, is it?
Skippy and Biden are such a dolts. Antagonizing Putin is dangerous. How many fucking times have Russia and the Chinks told these assclowns to stay out of Syria?
IraK
“Sarcasm” is my middle name.
So, you agree with me that usgov and cnn and fox is where there is truth, eh?
Hahaha. I don’t believe you either. I know your schtick.
Okay, Stuck…
Here’s a comment for you.
Seriously though, the Russians have lots of nice toys. So do we.
What’s got me dialing 1-800-WTF? is the Whitney… If things go hot, she probably won’t be a goner, but those on board will destroy everything worth capturing… and it would be a HUGE coup for the Russians to capture her… know why?
Stuck, do you know what that ship IS?
Here…
“The USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is a Blue Ridge class command ship of the US Navy; it is the flagship of the Sixth Fleet. She is also the command and control ship for the Commander Joint Command Lisbon and the Commander Striking Force NATO. She had previously served for years as the COMSTRIKFLTLANT(NATO Designation) / Second Fleet’s command ship.”
Flagship…. of the 6th fleet… a C&C ship… all by it’s lonesome in some Russian puddle on a PR mission…
Great. We couldn’t come up with anything MORE important to jeopardize?
Other than that, we have a habit of not putting all our cards on the table… yeah, the Russians have a good idea of what we have… the stuff that we want them to know. But there’s the stuff they don’t know we got…
As an example, I give you:
Anyone remember the Kit 2 missile? I had no idea this shit even existed, then we used them to take out Baghdad’s electrical grid in about 12 seconds, back in 91…
Then there’s those cool little bomblets… you drop them on an airfield and, I swear to God I’m not making this up, they wait until they “hear” a helicopter and then walk towards them on stubby little legs… when they get close, they explode and take out the helicopter…
By the way, I know for a fact that as of the late 90’s a certain bunch had made a reusable rail gun. Yeah, it was powered by a generator the size of a small building, but it worked… and that was almost 20 years ago…
Folks, there’s all sorts of stuff that we’ve had for years or rumored to have – like Aurora – that folks don’t know about. No telling what cool shit we’ll pull out of our asses…
Not saying everything’s fine if it comes to squaring off against the Russians… but if that happens, at some point we’re gonna pull some shit out and the Russians are gonna be all “WHOA! HEY! The fuck-ski was THAT?!?”
Thanks for the info on the USS Whitney ………… no, I did not know all that.
@Stuck: the Whitney is an odd choice to be there for the reasons outlined above. It has no offensive arms and limited defensive weapons – it’s intended to be protected by an entire fleet. The USN either thinks they have nothing to fear in Georgia, with no intent of any naval conflict, or it was put there to be a sacrificial lamb. In the past I’d have guessed lamb, but there have been many times in the last 5-6 years that some old ship was sent to a danger zone and came back safely, so maybe we just don’t have all that much to fear.
I agree with you 100% that any real war between the US and Russia is likely to go nuclear, and that’s bad news for everyone. Russia’s military is a pale shadow of the USSR’s, and frankly the USA’s military today is a pale shadow of what we had in 1990. Both countries have political egos much larger than their remaining capabilities (as does the UK to an extreme degree).
American military technology hubris.
We still can’t make a decent metal tank tread to match the durability of the Russian made tread. We still haven’t figured their metallurgy.
Russian tankers have to be fairly small creatures too. Wal-Mart fatties and tall folks are out of luck.
That’s all I have to say about that.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Stucky. When I was working as a contract tech writer, I had a clearance and the bureaucrats would have had my hide if I’d inserted images you’ve put here without the requisite classification. The classification system in our military echelon is insane and paranoid. Sometimes, they classify things that can be found in Jane’s… I am so ready to be away from my former AWACS existence.
But, I appreciate the images and the information. You obviously know how to get info and great pictures.
Re. “America’s got kit that even Americans don’t know about”. Note that the photos / information re. Russian capability are all public domain. Have no doubt at all that the Russians too have some pretty secret, and pretty “interesting” stuff. Paid for by the USA, having to buy their rocket engines, to some extent.
As to any conflict being a “War that America can win” – Russia’s a very big land mass, and on the opposite side of the Planet to the USA. The “Supply chain” might well prove America’s undoing for any land war (assuming Countries adjoining Russia don’t decide to side with Russia), and as to the escalation to a nuclear conflict – well that’s a War no-one wins (or even survives in the longer term).
Under Putin, the Russian military has been very extensively modernised. Quality over quantity, and with their very favourable debt to GDP balance, along with abundant, Globally – desirable natural resources, Russia has plenty more opportunity for development.
Just because Russia’s paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not out to get them. I’d like to see Lake Baikal in winter. Or in summer, but especially in winter. [img
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I just now realized (I’m a little slow, at times) ………. that was BILLY!
Nice!
the US rely on navy and on satellite network to achieve supremacy.
both would be taken out in a matter of days in case of war against a big dog like Russia or China.
then the Russians would show what they really have.
US need that to become a well behaving country
“Anonymous” at 5.55pm sounds like a PLA blogging troll.
Anonymous is Goldorack/Frenchie
Vladimir Putin Reminds Obama That Sowing Discord Between Nuclear Powers Can Undermine Strategic Security
By Paul Craig Roberts
October 16, 2014
In an interview today with Politika, a Serbian newspaper, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, said that it is futile and dangerous for the US and its European puppets to blackmail Russia and that the Exceptional Nation and its vassals should consider the risks that are inherent in aggressive disputes between countries heavily armed with nuclear weapons.
Putin noted that Obama took a hostile attitude toward Russia in Obama’s UN speech to the General Assembly on September 24 when Obama declared Russia to be one of the three threats to the world, along with the Islamic State and ebola. President Putin said that unilateral and punitive actions taken against Russia can provoke a crisis, and that if Washington’s purpose is to “isolate our country, it is an absurd and illusory goal.”
Here are some of President Putin’s direct quotes:
“How can we talk about de-escalation in Ukraine while the decisions on new sanctions are introduced almost simultaneously with the agreements on the peace process?”
“Together with the sanctions against entire sectors of our economy, this approach can be called nothing but hostile.”
“We hope that our partners will realize the futility of attempts to blackmail Russia and remember what consequences discord between major nuclear powers could bring for strategic stability.”
If we don’t all die from nuclear blasts, radiation, and nuclear winter, it will be because of the humanity and common sense — both of which are missing in Washington — of the President of Russia.
Look around you. The economies and stock markets of Western civilization are in retreat. Stupid and incompetent public authorities have brought ebola into America. And what is Washington doing? The energies of the Exceptional Government are focused on combating the Islamic State, a creature created by Washington itself, and on demonizing Russia.
Has any country, anywhere on the face of the earth, at any period of history been so totally misruled as the United States?
Americans need to understand that their government is not merely incompetent and immoral, but that it is evil. Washington hides behind moral language but is itself devoid of moral conscience. There is no evil of which Washington is incapable. Those who support Washington support evil.