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| Photo Log: Rehearsal of the Main Naval Parade from a bird's eye view |
| 2022-07-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Photos are at the link by Daria Drai [Regnum] On July 24, in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg and in the waters of the Great Kronstadt raid, a combined training session of the Main Naval Parade was held. The rehearsal was attended by surface ships and boats of various classes, submarines, as well as naval aviation of the Navy and foot units as part of parade boxes. During the training, all components of the Main Naval Parade were successfully tested. Among the 11 ships that took part in the passage on the Great Kronstadt roadstead are the Dimitrovgrad missile boat, the Passat and Sovetsk small missile ships, the Urengoy and Kazanets small anti-submarine ships, the Stoikiy and Soobrazitelny corvettes. ”, the Yaroslav the Wise patrol ship, the Purga border patrol ship, the Perekop training ship, and the Magadan diesel-electric submarine. A total of 17 warships and boats took part in the waters of the Neva. Among them are small missile ships "Odintsovo" and "Zeleniy Dol", mine defense ships "Alexander Obukhov" and "Pavel Khenov", anti-sabotage boats "Nakhimovets", "Yunarmeeets of Tatarstan", "P-471" and "P-468", patrol boats "Evgeny Kolesnikov" and "P-436". In addition, the coherence of the actions of the parade group of naval aviation was checked. About 40 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy took part in the rehearsal of the parade. Recall that the Main Naval Parade will be held on July 31, 2022 on the fairways in the waters of the Neva River between the Blagoveshchensky and Troitsky bridges and on the fairways in the waters of the Great Kronstadt roadstead along the southern protective wall of the port. The parade will be attended by 36 surface ships and boats, 4 submarines, 7 sailing ships, 42 aircraft, and more than 3,500 military personnel. The dress rehearsal for the parade is scheduled for July 28. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 Confucius say, "Oracle bones Warn, 'Han in glass house, don't throw stones!'" So Xi practice spiel, Offer really good deal To Volodya for half-billion clones. |
| Posted by: Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-25 18:31 |
| #9 Like Bondarchuk's billion-buck baby, But... backwards? Hey, look, a new navy! Our Tsar catches cold, Little Emperor grows bold, And invading Ukraine goes great... maybe. |
| Posted by: Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-25 18:23 |
| #8 ...ever more so for the poor grunts who's lives are thrown away like tissue paper. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-25 18:02 |
| #7 As I understand it, the Russian military is hopelessly corruption. Funds provided for Putin's armed force are skimmed to find their way into senior Russian officers' pockets. It is a sad situation. |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-07-25 16:16 |
| #6 If they spent as much time practicing their TTP as they do for parade the Ukraine event would be over! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2022-07-25 15:13 |
| #5 Russian vessel shown in the photo is RFNS Aleksandr Obukhov, Alexandrit-class minesweeper, with diesel propulsion system. |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-07-25 09:51 |
| #4 In the last photograph of the article, ship 570 is in a starboard turn with some sort of smoke (?) on it's starboard side. |
| Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932 2022-07-25 09:43 |
| #3 So, given the woke at the Pentagone, what about an army that can mince and flounce? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-25 09:07 |
| #2 An army ready for parade is an army not ready to fight. An army ready to fight is an army not ready to parade. - old service adage |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2022-07-25 08:46 |
| #1 Does the Russian military train for anything but parades? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-07-25 05:56 |