Fleet
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Dear readers, surely many of you were taught in childhood that doing several things at the same time, and even more carelessly, is not very good. It is even harmful, proved by the fifth points, in case the head did not think about what the rest of the body was doing
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Yes, our today's story is about them, about the forerunners of the class of heavy cruisers and the first Washington cruisers. Well, and how it all turned out in general. It all began during the First World War. If you look like this, then the entire Royal Navy was engaged in this kind of game of catch-up. because
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David Ax of The National Interest put out a very original analyst: “Watch Out! Russian Submarines Are Prowling Off the U.S. Coast "
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The bell of the naval agreement in Washington blasted through Britain as well. More precisely, according to the budget of the "Lady of the Seas", and blasted no worse than the armor-piercing shells of German battleships and cruisers in the Battle of Jutland. Having agreed with the rest of the participants, Britain began to build its heavy cruisers, and … it became clear
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Coastal defense. This, if you look into the dictionary of terms, is a set of forces and means of a fleet with fortifications and a system of anti-landing and anti-aircraft structures designed to protect naval bases, ports and important coastal areas. Let's also do
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Yes, we can already say that "who is talking about what, and here everything is about diesel engines." What if this is the case? If the situation is not something that does not improve, it gets worse. We stand, and soon we will even stop smoking. Sources Mil.Press FlotProm allow in publications to conclude that the situation
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Our story begins in fact from the moment the First World War ended. The French admirals were in deep thought, because if the French fleet did not signify participation in the war by trampling in a Mediterranean puddle, then one could say that France at sea and not
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If such a text were written, for example, by a Russian expert, it could easily be declared an information war. However, the opinion belongs to the Americans. Precisely in the plural, since not only the author David Wise (very, by the way, a serious analyst), but also a bunch of US Navy admirals
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It looks like the story that began in 2008 is starting to end. The so-called coastal zone ships of the US Navy are leaving for mothballing. We wrote about the existence of an LCS-class ship, and now we are starting, apparently, to observe the last act of the presentation
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Today we will talk about the continuation of the series of Italian light cruisers of the "Condottieri" type, series D, which consisted of two ships. The first was "Eugenio di Savoia" (in the text - "Savoy") and "Emanuelo Filiberto Duc D'Aosta" (in the text - "Aosta")
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Naturally, your comments on both my format of fighter ratings and the article about Zero prompted me to continue the topic. Okay, I agree: the Zero is the most outstanding carrier-based fighter of the Second World War. And it is issued by the fact that not a single model from any country sent to the next world
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We condemn the man-torpedoes of the Japanese Imperial Navy "kaiten" in about the same way as the kamikaze pilots. Fu, barbarity. And we have reasons for that. But "kaitens" are just a fresh example. And since the history of the fleet goes back more than one century, there is a whole barge of examples. Moreover, the main
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And on this note (so far it is difficult to say whether it is joyful or mournful), we begin our review of the last pair of Italian light cruisers of the Condottieri class, type E. Yes, after them there were also ships of the F type, but, as they say, they did not smell gunpowder. But type E … It's debatable, but let me put it this way: they were
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Stephen Stashwick, maritime expert for The Diplomat, believes the new approach to anti-submarine defense now being implemented in the United States and China is a step forward. What's the point? The point is in approaching the problem. The problem is Russian and Chinese submarines (Chinese project 094
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Have you been waiting? I know they were waiting. We wrote in the comments. Well, it's time to talk about probably the most useless ships of the light cruiser class of World War II. These are worthy rivals to the Soviet cruisers, which stood in ports (with the rarest exception, such as the Red Caucasus), throughout the war. Only
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Who, if not the Americans, can judge foreign aircraft carriers? Indeed, they are experts in this type of ships the best in the world. Kyle Mizokami, an employee of our beloved "The National Interest", gave a very interesting picture of Indian aircraft carrier ambitions. Kyle is generally quite
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Yes, now we will go to the German shores and see what the heavy cruisers of the Admiral Hipper type were like, since the story of their appearance is already a good plot in itself. In general, the construction of cruisers in imperial Germany was very simple: a basic model was created , and then
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Let's agree right away: not "pocket battleships", not "nedolinkors". Heavy cruisers. Yes, in terms of weapons, they were somewhat beyond the class, but the 283-mm was by no means the caliber of a battleship at that time. 356 mm, 380 mm, 406 mm - these are the calibers for the battleship. And 283 mm is like the Soviet light cruisers of the project
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May the regular readers of the column forgive me for jumping so unceremoniously from the criticized German light troughs for some reason to the French heavy cruisers. Yes, in theory, "Hippers" should go now, but here - "Algeri". And this is no accident. At the very end there will be an answer to the question why exactly
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In general, reflective articles about how important a strong fleet is for Russia appear systematically and regularly. Perhaps the frequency of occurrence is influenced by the proximity of budget readings for the next year, but this is only an assumption
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The situation with the Russian submarine forces is beginning, if not to cause concern, then it makes you think very hard. On the one hand, it seems like our submarine fleet, which is not like the surface one, is the guarantor of the country's security, on the other … On the other hand, problems with the submarine fleet did not begin
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Yes, as promised, we will now bring the two articles together and add some analysis. And the main purpose of this material will be to answer the question: can we in 10 years even think about the fact that our fleets will be able to provide at least minimal resistance if something happens?
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Photo: CrazyMk / forums.airbase.ru Continuing the topic of our submarine forces and not the most pleasant situation associated with them. On the one hand, it is nice to know that if something happens - our underwater monsters will demolish one continent from the face of the earth, seemingly completely inhabited by enemies. Even in revenge. On the other
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Yes, sometimes the path of a ship is similar to that of a man. To be the firstborn in a huge family, to nurture the younger ones, go through the entire war from the first to the last day, survive, burning in atomic fire, and then be shot in gratitude. All this is not about a cruiser, but about cruisers like "Pensacola". First American
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Kyle Mizokami. National Interest and a bunch of other publications. One of the most sober-minded analysts in the United States today and an excellent expert reflects on how things are today in the US Navy. Five Ways the U.S. Navy Will Beat Any Enemy at War
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When you hear or read the word "raider", something Germanic immediately pops up in your memory. Either the muddy silhouette of the "Tirpitz" somewhere in the North, by its mere presence causing the relaxation of organisms among the British, or an auxiliary cruiser converted from a civilian ship with a team of selected
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Gigantomania is very bad. Proven by the Soviet Union. Huge factories, huge budgets, huge armies devouring these budgets: it would seem that all this remained in the distant past, in a bipolar world. An no. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed new details about extremely ambitious plans
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The logical ending to the conversation about the heavy cruisers of the Japanese Imperial Navy will be the story of the Tone-class cruisers. In the material about the "Mogami", the moment was touched upon when Japan used all the unused displacement under the treaties to create 6 class "B" cruisers. Four cruisers are
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The construction of a powerful military grouping in the northern direction requires not only the deployment of new bases, but also the construction of appropriate ships. In the foreseeable future, the ship group responsible for protecting the northern borders of the country will have to be replenished with two universal patrol
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An analysis of frigates created in Europe, Russia and the countries of Southeast Asia does not give a complete picture of the trends in the development of this class without assessing the ships of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf zone. There is no palette of types here, but there are projects that are fully consistent with the world level. At
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Meeting of personnel, at which one of the NUBs receives "dolphins". Submarine "Rhode Island" (USS Rhode Island) On June 16, 2020 in The Drive magazine, under the heading The War Zone, an article was published by the former sonar from the US Navy nuclear submarine Aaron Amick "Nukes
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The nuclear-powered underwater gas carrier, named "Pilgrim", promises to be a very futuristic product. With all the skepticism about the work of domestic design bureaus, it must be admitted that sometimes they have original ideas. Skepticism stems largely from the fact
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The fleet of the United States and its allies is currently vastly superior to that of the Russian Federation (RF). It is unrealistic to compete with them in the number of ships and the rate of their commissioning in the near future. Thus, the need for an asymmetric response arises
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This article is a continuation of the previously published material on the concept of a nuclear multifunctional submarine cruiser (AMFPK): "Nuclear multifunctional submarine: an asymmetric response to the West."
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Russia is a country of paradoxes. On the one hand, it is the largest continental power, whose land interests have always prevailed over others. On the other hand, Russia has one of the longest maritime borders, access to the seas and oceans, which requires a strong navy to control
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Most readers are well aware of the concept of "laser", formed from the English "laser" (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). Lasers invented in the middle of the 20th century have thoroughly entered our life, even if their work in
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High-energy laser weapons on modernized nuclear submarines "Virginia" In open budget documents of the US Armed Forces, information was published that it is planned to deploy high-energy laser weapons on modernized nuclear submarines (nuclear submarines) of the "Virginia" class
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The first decades after World War II were marked by a real revolution in naval affairs. The massive appearance of radars in all the Navy, automation of anti-aircraft fire control, the emergence of anti-aircraft missile systems and anti-ship missiles, the emergence of nuclear submarines with unlimited
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On water and under water At the beginning of the 20th century, two types of ships began to develop in the navies of the leading countries of the world: surface ships (NK) and submarines (PL), the design and tactics of which were radically different. However, before the appearance of submarines with a nuclear power plant (NPP), underwater