TO DRAIN VESSELS WITH NATO ARMORED VEHICLES IN THE ATLANTIC?
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February 3, 2023, 12:11
Maxim Kalashnikov
Then you need to prepare for a direct clash with America - she carries tanks and infantry fighting vehicles by military rolkers
The “folk military creativity” of the profane never ceases to touch me. One chatterbox suggested sinking ships with American tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the ocean so that the equipment would not reach Ukraine.
Is it true? Do you have any idea what that means?
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Sergey Mikheev (regular of Solovyov's show):
“The first ship with 60 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles has already departed from the United States across the Atlantic to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The ship is not classified, it is non-military, they just loaded equipment on it, and they are transporting it to some European port. Could it happen that some iceberg will appear in the way of this ship?
If it depended on me, then I would drown it in a vigorous hair dryer ... In general, everything that floats flies, and especially if it is a chartered commercial vessel ... It swam, swam, and sank. What happened to him is unknown. And if you drown him in such a place in the Atlantic, where there are great depths, then no one will ever get him at all. I would act like this.
We are getting smaller. It can be captured by pirates with such crooked knives, one-eyed, in bandanas. I don't know what could happen to him. Iceberg or something. I would torpedo this ship in FIG, and let it go to the bottom to a vigorous hair dryer with all these nonsense. Next time they will know how to send them. It is very expensive to transport tanks from America by air, so many American military cargoes that go to the front go by commercial ships. I would drown them in figs, and that's it ... "
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And now - about the real state of affairs. Unlike the RF Armed Forces, the US Armed Forces have their own capabilities for the transfer of heavy equipment across the Atlantic. These are 14 huge military rolkers("ro-ro") type "Bob Hope" and "Watson". It was these ships (62 thousand tons of displacement) that transported tanks from America to the Dutch Vlissingen.
“... The US Sealift Command is armed with about 110 ships of various classes. Today we're going to look at real logistical monsters - large medium-speed cargo ships of the "Bob Hope" + "Watson" class (which are essentially the same thing, only the power plant differs).
The ship is capable of transporting up to 1000 units of wheeled and tracked vehicles in one flight, including main battle tanks ... "
“Here are the transport capabilities of the Bob Hope class:
• total area of cargo decks (internal) = 29543 m2 (approximately 4 football fields);
• open cargo deck area = 6503 m2 (one more);
• rear rotary ramp for equipment, allows unloading regardless of the method of setting in the port;
• side opening portals are used when mooring sideways to the berth;
• two twin 55-ton cranes provide loading on the upper open deck;
• landing area for helicopters…”
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These are the cargo giants of the US Navy. They will take the “armor” to the EU for its subsequent transfer to Ukraine. And if the Russian Federation decides to sink them, then its submarines run the risk of running into an anti-submarine escort of ro-ro ships. They will obviously go under escort. Yes, our boat (or boats) can sink a giant ship, but they themselves risk being destroyed later by American anti-submarines. For example, their anti-submarine defense aircraft. Is today's Moscow capable of launching a submarine war in the Atlantic against the United States? Deploy "wolf packs" of boats, while not being able to cover them from the air? But submarines are helpless against anti-submarine aircraft. (It is impossible to sink ships anonymously: US underwater technology allows you to explore the bottom of the Atlantic even in the deepest waters. Aquanaut robots will show that a torpedo has occurred. And a side-view sonar will perfectly restore the entire picture of damage to a sunken ship).
For this, determination is needed a hundred times more than to bring Russian troops into the Donbass and the Black Sea region in the spring of 2014, while Strelkov held Slavyansk. (And when there weren’t even close those APUs that we have now). Or in order to smash all the centers of power and control and military headquarters in Kyiv with the very first blows of the Caliber and Iskanders. They did neither. Just as they did not destroy the very junction railway stations through which (with the change of wheelsets from the European track to the Russian one) there is a transport link between Bandera and the EU. (Tanks from the ports of Holland will go to Ukraine on the "cast iron").
Just as they did not destroy the bridges across the Dnieper (as well as the railway and road bridges to the Dnieper) by the Air Force. First, methodically suppressing enemy air defenses and using guided planning bombs against bridges.
In the same way, you opened the ports of Odessa (there are both Yuzhny and Ilyichevsk) for a “grain deal” that is completely unprofitable for the Russian Federation. Carry military supplies there by sea freely, while the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation took refuge in the bases.
So I advise chatterbox to first study the materiel ...
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