President Putin reviews s Russian Navy flotilla off St Petersburg in July 2020
Vladimir Isachenkov – Associated Press Aug 23, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday launched the construction of new nuclear submarines and other warships, part of a sweeping military modernization effort amid tensions with the West.
Speaking in a video call, Putin gave orders for two nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles along with two diesel-powered submarines and two corvettes at shipyards in Severodvinsk, St. Petersburg and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
“We will continue to boost the potential of the Russian Navy, develop its bases and infrastructure, arm it with state-of-the-art weapons,” Putin said. “A strong and sovereign Russia needs a powerful and well-balanced navy.”
Russian navy launches cruise missiles from a ship in the Caspian Sea at Islamic State militants in Aleppo, Syria, 2016. Click to enlarge
The Kremlin has made military modernization a top priority as relations with the West have plunged to post-Cold War lows after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea. Moscow has sought to reestablish a regular naval presence in parts of the world that the Soviet Union had during the Cold War.
The Russian Navy already has a major presence in the Mediterranean Sea, with a naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus. It has expanded and modified the Tartus base, the only such facility that Russia currently has outside the former Soviet Union.
“We will continue to show the Russian flag in strategically important ocean areas,” Putin said.
Monday’s ceremony for the new ships was part of the Army-2021 show intended to showcase military might and attract foreign customers for Russia’s arms industries. The weeklong show features aircraft, tanks, missiles and other weapons.
“Many of our weapons have the capabilities that have no analogues in the world, and some will remain unrivaled for a long time to come,” Putin said.
My gun is bigger than your gun. The world is run by psychos and peopled by morons.
Russias GDP is said to be around the same as Italys.
Interestingly, no plans for aircraft carriers.
There are CIA heart attack guns.
Fire are started from beams fired from the upper atmosphere.
sound waves can immobilize personal.
So what’s the worry about who’s got what in conventional military hard ware ?
keep it simple, Like Jesus said, beat the sword into Ploughshares,
The only people HURT by that action are the people heavily invested in the Military industrial complex.
yes. no one else.
unless of course the objective is indeed to have monumental horrific blood sacrifices for the (their) lord Lucifer.
Yeah probably that.
so crack on you taft dwats, keeping voluntarily signing up.
It’ll sink in eventually.
Anonymous raises a good point. If your missiles can reach halfway round the world (send them either way and that’s the planet covered), and make them so fast as to be almost invincible, you don’t need to waste the $squillions£ on those death trap aircraft carriers. Put the money into your missile and other systems.
Search for ‘Putin wears yarmulke’ to see who it works for…
Ratchild: We make all our political puppets wear a yarmulke.
tel … Si vis Pacem, par Bellum !