Yeah Dave, the articles that leaked out seem a bit premature on what some of them say (those saying outright acquisition of 5 virginias and then the next 7 will be based on Astute etc, and built who knows where, some say locally even).
We will have to see what the actual official announcement...
RIP Danylo Murashko and fair winds to you up there.
As an aside, it reminds me of a (WW2 RAF) comic strip story that I would read repeatedly as a kid (it was in a larger WW2 collection my uncle had from the "Commando" series that he bound all together into one hardcover book as notable "hero"...
SSN vulnerability in shallow straits is well known feature and large part of PLAN focus on SSK + AIP instead:
https://news.usni.org/2015/07/08/essay-chinas-submarine-solution-for-the-taiwan-strait
The US will likely have to mature things on the UUV front at more accelerated pace so that...
Guess I'm odd man out then heh.... as I am almost perfectly neutral towards it.
It's merely a vessel that exists and has absorbed what it needs to (from the funding positive pressure) from the development chains of this tech era.
i.e an inevitable product. It could have gone better, it could...
Bukavu is right on the border of DRC and Rwanda.
This is some of the only footage I've seen of the rebel-mercernary joint forces in latter part of Katanga civil war.
French "influence and statecraft" extended well past West africa well into its interior that caspian report covers @Xenon54...
It died happy doing what it enjoyed I guess. RIP mr rat.
BTW, if they determined how much money destroyed, its simple fix to release that amount of money into circulation to compensate. It is a closed loop problem with easy solution.
This is same process done with damaged notes or old notes...
This has been same formula repeated a while now. Things wont really change IMO unless there is greater trust built within BD military w.r.t India...given obviously this is in some state of deficit now due to whole host of reasons.
BD political admin anyway cannot impose things upon BD military...
Actually things are moving on the Sukhoi front w.r.t UAE:
https://vpk.name/en/693581_the-superjet-100-aircraft-production-plant-will-be-built-in-the-uae.html
We will obviously have to watch and see what materialises on that factory in the end @Philip the Arab
....but to me its clear they are...
Yah but tbh, the "ex-Tsarist Russia, ex-USSR" rodina psyche probably only really compares to English (well Plantagenet) one in the 100 years war with the Valois (in what we call France now).
If such situation persevered and existed today by whichever hypothetical course of history from then to...