Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Follow-Up: Drafting Commercial Ships into the Russian Navy

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"Kazan-60" in Sevastopol --- January 12, 2016 (credit: Andrey Brichevskiy) Four commercial ships that were commissioned into...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

RF Navy Will Soon Receive Sixth-Gen Communications Systems

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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakunin - General Director, United Instrument-Building Corporation [translation of select portions of RIA Novost...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Follow-Up 1: Why Did "Rostov-na-Donu" Return to the Baltic Sea?

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It has become much clearer over the past three weeks why Kilo-class submarine "Rostov-na-Donu" made its mysterious port call in K...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Why Did "Rostov-na-Donu" Return to the Baltic Sea?

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Screenshot of Ilya Kurganov blog posting -- October 29, 2015 Very early this morning , St. Petersburg blogger Ilya Kurganov (citing unn...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Drafting Commercial Ships into the Russian Navy

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"Alican Deval" (aka "Dvinitsa-50") underway in Novorossiysk - October 10, 2015 (credit: Oleg Sushkov) Moscow appa...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Kalibr vs Klub: There's a Difference

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Defense News' "Is Caspian Sea Fleet a Game-Changer?" article from October 11 demonstrates a confusion between Russian missi...

In Putin's Own Words: Why We Launched Kalibr Missiles

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Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - October 2015 (credit: All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcast Company) Today...