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Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship
krez writes "Today's RFE/RL Newsline states The Russian Navy has declassified Project 20380, a warship designed with stealth technology. The ship has a range of 4000km, clips along at 30 knots (55 km/h). The ship has both offensive and defensive roles, and comes armed with the supersonic Yakhont first strike missiles, and the Medvedka 400mm anti-submarine missiles. This is a big step in Russia's attempt to re-establish itself as a world naval super-power, after a decade of budget cuts." Technical details are very very scant on here - if you know more, please post below.
... cos the fucking thing's invisible.
We cannot afford a stealth warship gap!
I'm not supposed to tell anyone about this, but I heard that it runs Linux.
All the stealth technology in the world won't save you when Boris is smashing bottles over live ordnance.
Let me see....
USA
Stealth bombers, w/ laser guided bombs.
Russia
Stealth ships, with supersonic torpedoes
Australia
Collins Class Submarine, with extremely noisy engines.
Something tells me we (AU) wouldnt win a war.
Let's just hope the US government doesn't resort to Slashdot as an intelligence source... ;-)
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Kirk What is it, Mr. Chekhov?
Chekhov Captain, three Russian wwessels have just decloaked and are on the main viewscreen. We are surrounded.
Kirk Arm photon torpedoes.
Checkhov I don't think I can do that, sir. Now, don't make a move or I'll vaporise this bridge. Prepare for boarding party.
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A strategic advantage this ship's instrumentation has over US seacraft:
On the bridge are numerous PCs, which (amongst other things) allow the ship's manuals to be read in Adobe e-Book format *and* PDF format.
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In other news. Russia announced today their "Hacker Protection Program" loosely modeled after the US Witness Protection Plan.
The plan is designed to protect intelligent Russian Software Engineers like Dimitry Sklyarov.
When asked for comment, Directory of Foreign Technological Relations, Boris Imatrov said "The US is quickly becoming a very oppressive government. In order to protect out technological interest we created Project 20380".
The plan is to man the vessel with the top 200 "hackers" living in Russia. In exchange for near total protection from US persecution (the ship is armed to the teeth and invisible to radar), the geeks will be responsible for making sure she is always patched with the latest Linux kernel and is resistant to all but the most coordinated DDOS attacks.
"Ya khont" is the most offensive sounding missile I've ever heard of.
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Bashing Jay renders the rest of your post irrelevant by marking you a fool whose knowledge of Jay comes from communists.
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...when can I buy one to cruise around my local lake in? Those supersonic missles sound nice...
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Planes can take territory, but they can't HOLD territory, hence the requirement for Infantry and other ground pounders to go in and sit in the mud. Well, planes can damage shipping, but they can't stop shipping. Sometimes, you just need to park a big steel hull of ten on a Sea Line Of Communication and start sinking transports. And lets face it, that Aegis crusier or three in your convoy is going to pretty much prevent bombers from touching you. 4 million watts of RF energy means never having to say 'I'm sorry.'
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