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Russian Navy takes delivery of Putin's super sub: Largest submarine to be built in 30 years that has enough firepower to take out entire cities and unleash 'radioactive tsunamis' is set to go into service
2022-07-09
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Belgorod is the biggest sub built in 30 years at over 600ft long and 30,000 tons

  • Can carry 6 80ft Poseidon torpedoes with up to 100 megaton nuclear warheads

  • Coastal attack would cause 500m tsunami and 'devastating' radiation spread

  • Russian Navy chief claimed the sub will be used for scientific research missions

  • Experts fear sub could sabotage undersea cables with special unmanned drones

  • Delivered to Russian Navy yesterday after being spotted on surface last month
Posted by:Skidmark

#25  @#21 - And didn't Boeing get a gov't bailout in the 1970's or '80's?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-07-09 23:20  

#24  When we lived in Western Europe after the Berlin Wall fell — that is, when Mr. Wife’s large international corporation parked the trailing daughters and me in Germany/Belgium while he flew back and forth developing new products for markets in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union — it struck me as interesting that the entire managerial class over there (and in most of the world, in fact) had doctorates in whatever they did thereafter, while in America many managers had only bachelor degrees or in the C Suite mere MBAs or the equivalent. Several of Mr. Wife’s colleagues explained to me that he must be a genius to accomplish what he did with only a BS in chemical engineering. To us that’s silly, but they could not conceive of anyone less trained having the necessary level of knowledge.

This goes back a while. Even my mother’s farmer uncles in Germany back in the 1930s, in a family that had bred cattle for generations, all had PhDs or JDs.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-09 21:03  

#23  /\First tell me what a vague term like "big science" means.
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-09 20:47  

#22  always have repeat to me that the Russians where lights years away from us in big science

A couple of possibilities:

  • He was flattering his visitors for some purpose of his own

  • The difference between a science culture and an engineering culture, or theoretical science versus applied science



    • Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-09 20:36  

    #21  Boeing? Has Boeing done anything right since the '97 McDonnell Douglas merger?
    Posted by: magpie   2022-07-09 20:08  

    #20  Not True!

    Brandon can hide his own Easter Eggs!
    Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-07-09 19:47  

    #19  Boing/Rocketdyne Our expert from Belarus Acapulco Malibu Wherethefuckever says
    Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-09 19:08  

    #18  And with Iran only "months away" from having "the bomb", we will really have our work cut out for us. But it's been about 360 months we've been waiting, so maybe things won't be all that bad just yet.
    Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-07-09 19:00  

    #17  ^ Perhaps this time, with all the resources of the Brandon Administration on their side, the Germans will triumph.

    OK, I'm messing with ya! Brandon couldn't organize an Easter egg hunt. And besides, WW3 isn't until next year in the South China Sea.
    Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-09 18:45  

    #16  The scariest thing about this World War Three starting is, that we are on the Germans' side.

    They've never won a World War yet.
    Posted by: Aca Joe   2022-07-09 18:06  

    #15  A German walks into a bar and orders a beer.

    The bartender tells him : "100 euros!"

    The German is shocked - "100 euros? yesterday it was only 10 euros !"

    "Well, today it is 100 euros."

    - "But why 100, damn it?"

    Bar tender : "I'll explain it,

    -10 euros is beer,

    -10 to help Ukraine,

    -20 assistance to European countries who have imposed sanctions and are not members of the EU.

    -10 euros in aid to the UK, for successful implementation of sanctions against Russia.

    -Then 10 euros are sent to the Balkan countries as aid to buy furnace coal.

    - and finally, 40 euros for a gas subsidy for the EU and fund to help maintain sanctions!"

    The German silently took out the money and gave the bartender 100 euros.

    The bartender took them, entered in the cash register and gave him 10 euros back

    German in disbelief : "Wait, you said 100 euros, right ? I gave you 100, why are you giving me back 10 euros?"

    *"Ahh.. We have no beer!”*

    Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-09 17:47  

    #14  No they were guests of Boing/Rocketdyne, Real Russians from Russia including their grey suits and red ties.
    Posted by: Aca Joe   2022-07-09 14:54  

    #13  ^ Those Russian engineers - were they working in the US, Aca Joe?
    Posted by: Bobby   2022-07-09 14:44  

    #12  My neighbor, the retired director of procurement for Boing/Rockedyne (A. G. ) introduced me to many Russians engineers at some backyard parties many years ago and always have repeat to me that the Russians where lights years away from us in big science
    Their people are way more advanced and educated than us.
    Russians care about reliability, they do not believe in planed obsolescence
    This sub may rust somewhere but when the moment comes it will be used
    Posted by: Aca Joe   2022-07-09 14:38  

    #11  I believe the plan is to sit off the coast of New York listening to American rock and roll whilst conducting missile drills.

    Not a bad plan, if you ask me.
    Posted by: badanov   2022-07-09 14:18  

    #10  ^ I believe the plan is to sit off the coast of New York listening to American rock and roll whilst conducting missile drills.
    Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-09 14:15  

    #9  It will spend most of its "service" life in port, due to either breakdowns or lack of sufficient skilled sailors the Putin Regime trusts to put to sea in it.

    The Russophobic moron has spoken
    Posted by: Aca Joe   2022-07-09 13:56  

    #8  It will spend most of its "service" life in port, due to either breakdowns or lack of sufficient skilled sailors the Putin Regime trusts to put to sea in it.
    Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-07-09 13:51  

    #7   Seattle could be engulfed by a TSUNAMI with waves up to

    Yup - always a silver lining.

    Of course the model above only works in the epicenter is in the middle of Elliot Bay in Pudget Sound. (About 5 miles from Downtown Seattle). Unlikely.
    Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-07-09 11:39  

    #6  Put Grrrretah in charge with actual mileposts to meet. She'd suicide inside a year.
    Always a silver lining.
    Posted by: DarthVader   2022-07-09 11:10  

    #5  Enslave the entire russian population to clean it up. Put Grrrretah in charge with actual mileposts to meet. She'd suicide inside a year.
    Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-09 10:56  

    #4  Hey, if we sink it, we can cause a radioactive disaster that will wreck an entire area of the world's oceans! uNF uNF uNF let's go Brandon!
    Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268   2022-07-09 10:51  

    #3  "One ping only, Vasily"
    Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-09 10:36  

    #2  This is a problem how?
    Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-09 10:25  

    #1  Seattle could be engulfed by a TSUNAMI with waves up to 42ft within three minutes if a 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits the fault line off the coast, simulation shows
    Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-09 10:23  

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