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2008-08-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Wired Magazine: Assault Ship's Bad Day " Inside the Battle for the Black Sea"

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Posted by 3dc 2008-08-15 20:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Amusing - the Georgian boats were armed only with guns. If they were missile boats, they might have sent the Russian Black Sea fleet to the bottom.

Some of the details of the sailor's story are slightly inaccurate -- call it fog of war. The Georgian ship sunk was not the Tbilisi, as the sailor suggests. Rather it was the Georgian patrol boat P-21 Georgy Toreli. A night battle in the littoral, the Georgians armed only with guns, yet the little flotilla of four was able to get in close to Moskva and start a little fire. Covering its withdraw, the Mirazh missile boat is reported to have sunk the ship in only 90 seconds in what was reported as 300 meters of water.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-15 22:28|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-15 22:28|| Front Page Top

#2 For any fleet to deploy that quickly is extraordinary readiness.

Maybe they were "pre-ready", if you know what I mean.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-08-15 22:56|| 2008-08-15 22:56|| Front Page Top

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