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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.

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  1. STEALTH by forkspoon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, stealth like the way vodka just creeps up on you.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

    1. Re:STEALTH by D_Gr8_BoB · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      An FP is a terrible thing to waste.

  2. My Tragedy Becomes My Reason for Going On by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

    The day my daughter was born was the happiest day of my life. One week later all of my joy turned to sorrow when my wife was killed in an auto accident on the way to the doctor. She was crossing an intersection when a car hit her from the side. She never even knew what happened. The car hit the driver's side and she was killed instantly. Maybe that was for the best because at least she didn't suffer. The driver of the other car simply didn't see the light change. One moment of inattentiveness cost the life of the women I loved. I was devastated. With a good job, a beautiful daughter, and the rest of our lives ahead of us, it was suddenly all gone. I was numb for months. Fortunately my boss was very understanding. With a newborn at home and my wife gone my work hours were strange to say the least. Eventually he agreed to set up all of the necessary equipment for me to work from home. With a powerful computer and a fast network connection I was able to develop software at home during the hours that I wasn't caring for my baby. My productivity actually increased and my boss agreed that this was a good permanent solution for me. This way I could be with my little girl and still have my career. Little Samantha was rapidly becoming my life. Here was the only real connection to my wife. Together we had produced this precious and beautiful child and now it was a living link to the woman I loved.

    Being at home with the baby almost all of the time made it difficult to maintain contact with my friends and coworkers. By the end of the first month at home my contact with them was limited to email and chat room conversations. Somehow with as much as I had to do to keep up work and the baby it seemed very natural that I not have much contact with others. I suppose this is how it all started. Two months after the accident I was reading email from a good friend who asked if I was lonely. It suddenly occurred to me that I had not even thought about sex in the last two months. With the shock of the accident and the ever present needs of a baby girl I simply had not had time to listen to my body. While Sam was sleeping quietly in the crib that I kept in the computer room, I started thinking about the last time I had made love to my wife. Trying to block out the pain of her passing I remembered what a wonderful sexual relationship we shared. She was always willing to experiment with new things and showed both creativity and skill in our love making. Voraciously oral after being introduced to that pleasure, there was nothing she loved better than swallowing my warm seed. One playful evening after we had been eating watermelon, one thing led to another and we ended up naked on the floor of the living room. As we started to make love she squealed and said that we had to stop for a minute so that she could pee. Since she was already really juicy I told her to not bother wiping afterwards. Still feeling playful I followed my wife into the bathroom and watched as she took a very satisfying piss. Feeling a little kinky she said that would feel better if she could wipe. Cocking an eyebrow she wondered if we could think up a way to clean herself off that wouldn't dry her wonderful juices. I told her to stand up and lean back a little. I then proceeded to lick her clean. Although a little pungent I found both the taste and the aroma of her piss very arousing. By that time my hard-on was throbbing so hard I was getting dizzy from lack of blood! I picked my wife up, threw her onto the bed, and practically raped her. Surprised at how turned on I had gotten we talked a little bit about what had happened. We agreed that it might be interesting to try out some water sports. I told her that now might be a good time to think about starting since I was starting to get excited again and the watermelon had already run through me as well. Hearing this she jumped up and headed back to the bathroom. Once there she stepped into the tub, sat down, and said "OK, loverboy, piss on me!" By that time I really had to go but I also had a first-class hard-on. I stood next to the tub and concentrated on relaxing enough to pee. At first just a dribble came out but that was quickly followed by a fountain of piss that showered down all over her body. Suddenly she leaned over and put her mouth just above my penis. There was no way I could stop peeing at that point so I just watched as my urine shot straight up into her mouth and back out. I could see that she was actually swallowing some of it! By the time I was done peeing I was ready to take her again. Instead she just popped my erection into her mouth and started pumping away. I must have lasted all of ten strokes before I was shooting an enormous load into her mouth. She swallowed all of it before looking up and giving me a big grin. "Nice!", she said. "Piss and cum mix very well!". I couldn't believe what I was hearing!!

    From that day on she took every opportunity to mix her special cocktail. We bought a special container that we kept in the master bathroom just for piss. We never used the toilet when we were home, instead we both peed into the container. In the evenings or on weekends she would have me masturbate into the container. She then proceeded to drink down her favorite beverage. She claimed that it was good for her skin. Who was I to argue. I thought she never looked better! I think that the kinkiest thing we did happened one weekend. I had just taken my first piss of the day into our clean bucket (we always started each day with the container cleaned) when my wife jumped me. We made passionate love and I ended up dumping my load in her pussy. After a bit of cuddling she got up with a funny look in her eyes and headed for the bathroom. Curious what she had in mind I followed her. She grabbed the contained and put it on the ground. Squatting over it she opened her pussy lips with her fingers and let my cum dribble directly from her cunt into the bucket. When she was done she picked up the bucket, swirled around the mixture of juices, and smiling proceeded to drink the whole thing. When she was done she daintily wiped her mouth and said, "It's always best when both are warm.."

    As I remembered these things I found that I had gotten an enormous hard-on. Realizing that this was the first time that I had an erection in months I decided to do something about it. Making sure Sam was still asleep I took off my shorts and underwear. Since I did not want to make a mess I went and got a towel. Leaning back in my chair I continued to remember all of the kinky things that my wife and I had done. Before I knew what was happening I had a tremendous orgasm. I thanked forethought for saving a mess and used the towel to clean up. Just then Sam made a sound and rolled over from her side to her back. Going over to her crib I looked down at that pristine smile and loved her all the more knowing that she had been the product of some wild and wonderful love-making session with my wife. Feeling something I looked down and saw that there was a large drop of cum oozing from the end of my penis. Reaching back to grab the towel I stopped. A crazy though had entered my head. Maybe it was being alone for so long with only a baby. Maybe it was that I missed my wife so much and all of the wonderful things we used to do. I'm still not sure why I did it but I used my finger to scoop up the blob of sperm and I put it onto Sam's lips. I'll never forget how she licked her lips in her sleep and the cum disappeared into her mouth. Suddenly I was raging hard again. Not really understanding what I was doing I reached for one of Sam's bottles. In just a few strokes I was cumming with ferocious intensity into the bottle. I put it down and then cleaned up with the towel. I went to the kitchen and mixed some formula into the bottle containing my seed. I set this down next to Sam's crib and waited.

    It was another 40 minutes before Sam realized that she was done sleeping. Her cries roused me from my own dozing and I went over to her crib. As soon as she saw me she stopped crying and smiled. I picked her up and cuddled her to me. Sensing that she was fidgety I set her down and checked her diaper. Since it was dry I assumed that she was hungry. Grabbing my special bottle of formula I went into the kitchen and used the microwave to warm the bottle. Sam knew what was coming and was very excited. I checked to make sure the mixture wasn't too hot and then gently placed the bottle at her lips. Suddenly presented with food Sam started to suckle strongly. With just a twinge of guilt I watched as she drank the whole bottle, seed and all. I felt weak. I was confused by what I had done but very turned on. I decided to watch Sam very carefully to make sure that she was not going to be adversely effected by her new formula mix. I fed her only the normal mix for the rest of that day and watched closely for any signs of discomfort on her part. When she had gone for nearly 48 hours without showing any indication that my new formula mix had caused her problems I decided to try again. This time I only mixed half a bottle of formula to my one load. The liquid was noticeably thicker. When I gave it to Sam she didn't seem to mind or even notice any difference in her food. She very happily sucked each bottle down to nothing.

    This became a regular part of my daily routine. At least once a day I would mix a bottle of my special cocktail for Sam. As the weeks went by I would mix in less and less of the formula until one day I decided to try something different. Sam was at the point where she was able to roll herself over and sort of scoot herself around. I put her down on the ground and then removed my pants and underwear. Already very excited at the thought of what I was about to do I grabbed a bowl from the kitchen and went back to keep an eye on Sam. She seemed perfectly content to sit on the ground and wobble. Watching her I slowly stroked myself to an orgasm. Catching almost all of my cum in the bowl I cleaned up a bit and then sat down next to Sam. Excited at having someone to play with Sam giggled and scooted over to me. I picked her up and sat her down on the floor between my legs. Reaching for the bowl and the spoon I had brought along just for this purpose I scooped up a bit of my sperm and brought it to Sam's mouth. Not thinking that this was anything unusual Sam opened up and I popped the spoon right in. Since the flavor was familiar to her (if a bit stronger) she just swallowed it down without a problem. My heart was pounding as I scooped up all of my sperm and fed it to my lovely daughter while sitting there on the floor.

    Once I was finished I leaned over to place the bowl and spoon on a table. As I was leaning Sam lost her balance and sort of plopped down on all fours. This put her face at eye level with my crotch. Being distracted by my attempt to put the bowl on the table I was therefor very surprised to feel something warm and wet on my penis. Sam had done what all babies do when confronted with something new. She had put my penis into her mouth! Well, ok, not the whole thing. At 6" (while hard) I wasn't huge but there was no way that any part of my little friend could fit into Sam's mouth. She was sort of sucking on the side just below the head. I just sat there watching her explore for a few minutes when I had an idea.

    As my daughter played with my penis I started to grow hard again. She continued to grab and suck on the side of my erection as it grew to full size. I sat her up again and then knelt in front of her bringing the end of my penis to her mouth. She reached out with her little hands and brought the end to her lips and began to suck and nibble. Not having any teeth there was certainly no discomfort on my part. As she drooled all over the end of my dick I was slowly stroking myself towards an orgasm. Since I had only cum about 10 minutes ago I didn't think I would have too large of a load. Being as excited as I was it only took me a few minutes to build to my climax. With a quiet moan I released my load into my daughter's mouth directly. Suddenly confronted with what she thought of as food Sam began to suckle as best she could. What she was unable to swallow ended up dripping out of her mouth and collecting on her chin. After my final squirt I gently pulled the tip of my penis away from Sam's mouth and rested back on my heels to look at my daughter. She seemed confused at the sudden lack of something to play with and sort of just stared at me. Realizing the enormity of what I had just done I came to a final decision. Standing up quickly I went into the next room and got my digital camera. When I returned to Sam she was still sitting with cum dripping off of her chin. She seemed to have just discovered this and had started to play with it. Now there were streamers of cum between her chin and her little hands. I started to take some pictures as she seemed to realize that what she was playing with was also good to eat. She then proceeded to stuff as much of the gooey material into her mouth as she could. Once done she looked up at me with a precious smile, cum still lightly coating her face and hands. I snapped a few more shots and then took a warm wash cloth and cleaned her up.

    From that day on things started changing. Instead of putting Sam into her crib at night I made sure that she slept with me. It became normal practice for me to feed Sam a fresh load both in the evening and first thing in the morning. To her it seemed a perfectly normal thing to suck down the biggest load I could give her.

    My collection of pictures which started on that first occasion also began to grow. I would put Sam on the bed and then masturbate over her body. She would end up completely showered with my cum which I thought made a wonderful picture. I also decided at that point to start documenting her body. At first I would simply snap a few shots of her lying naked on the bed. Then I began exploring her little cunny. With her on her back I would spread her legs wide and take close-ups. Using my finger I would very gently spread her tiny cunt lips to expose both her tiny hole and the little bump of her clitty.

    It was during one of these photo sessions when I got curious and decided to taste my daughter's pussy. While she giggled and cooed I gently ran my tongue over her slit and clitty. She seemed to enjoy this a great deal so I continued doing this for awhile. Suddenly I was rewarded with a stream of fresh little girl piss in my mouth. Although surprised I found that I enjoyed it a great deal. Drinking as much as I could I then proceeded to lick her clean. Suddenly I realized something. Picking Sam up and putting her on a clean blanket on the floor I went to the bathroom. I opened the cabinet under the sink and pulled out the container that my wife and I had used to hold our piss. I thoroughly cleaned and dried it and then went back to the room where my daughter was playing. As she scooted around the room I took a piss into the container. Taking one of her bottles I poured some of the warm golden fluid inside. I put the cap onto the bottle and then picked up my daughter. She fidgeted for a moment until I brought the bottle to her lips. She latched onto the nipple and started to suckle. Without any hesitation she emptied the bottle. I was elated! Here was my little daughter drinking my piss like apple juice.

    I made up my first cocktail that night. It was a great success. Sam seemed to genuinely enjoy the mix of my cum with my piss. I discovered that this was only true when both were fresh and warm, however, so I always made sure that she got the freshest combination I could provide.

    She was growing quickly and developing her motor skills very rapidly. She said her first word at 7 months which I am proud to say was "Dada". As she learned to crawl and then to walk holding onto various objects I continue feeding her a regular mix of both cocktails and my sperm direct from the source. I also continued to lick her cute little pussy on a regular basis.

    When she was 18 months old I talked with my boss and told him that I wanted to move out of the suburbs where I was living to a more natural setting. My excuse was that I wanted my daughter to grow up with more space. He agreed since I rarely came into the office anyway and the net connection was sufficiently fast to allow my work to continue. I began looking and found a property on over 30 acres of land. Most of it was forest land and the house was very secluded.

    Sam and I moved there and quickly settled in. Since it was summer and we were so secluded I decided that there was no reason for either of us to wear clothing. The yard was a beautiful 3/4 acre of green grass that was surrounded by a chain fence. The former owners had two large dogs which needed roaming space and confinement. It was perfect for us. Sam loved to explore the yard and I made sure that there was nothing around which could hurt her.

    She had just turned two and was developing quite a vocabulary when she first asked for her snack on her own. Since we were always naked she could see me making up her cocktails and, of course, she would still take my load directly once or twice a day. By this age she was well into solid food but she still had a special bottle at least once a day, normally during dinner. I was sitting on the front porch watching her run around the yard when she came over and asked if she could have a snack. Thinking that she wanted some crackers I started to get up. She looked a bit confused and again asked for a snack. This time, however, she reached out and grabbed my penis. Suddenly understanding what she wanted I sat back down. She stood between my legs and put my penis into her mouth. Up to that point I had always been the one to stroke myself to an orgasm. This time, however, I told her that if she wanted a snack she needed to know how make one for herself. I took her little hands and showed her how to slowly rub up and down on my cock. Just the thought of what was happening took me to the edge and with the help of her hands I had a very powerful orgasm in just a few minutes. She had grown very adept at sucking down every drop and, as usual, nothing spilled out of her mouth. When I had finished my orgasm and she had finished swallowing she turned around and started back to play in the yard. I asked her what she should say and she turned around and said "Thank you" before continuing back to the yard.

    From then on I would only provide her snack when she wanted it. She would normally approach me at least twice a day for a treat. At one point she asked if she could mix her treat with her food at dinner. Not being one to criticize another persons culinary desires I stood up and masturbated onto her plate of noodles for her. She very happily (and messily) slurped up both the noodles and my cum. 'Cum noodles' became one of her favorite foods to eat, and one of my favorite foods to prepare.

    I continued the tradition of taking pictures of her on a regular basis. She was old enough to help on her own and knew that when she saw me with the camera she should pose for me. It was nothing for her to plop down on the grass, spread her legs wide, and hold open her little cunt lips open for me. She would pee into the air or allow me to cum in her mouth at a moments notice. I loved the shots of her with her mouth wide open and full of a fresh load of my cum.

    One day I decided to start experimenting with something new. Since I was still licking her little slit on a regular basis (and still occasionally drinking her piss) I knew that her little hole was very small and tight. Since I would never think of causing my little girl any pain I decided to find out if she could put anything into her little pussy herself.

    While taking pictures in the house I had her lay on her back with her legs spread. I put a little vaseline around her hole and on the little finger of her left hand. I placed the fingertip at the entrance to her little vagina and told her to see if she could make her finger disappear. Seeming a bit confused at first I helped her out a bit my gently putting pressure on her finger and watching the tip slip into her hole. She suddenly understood and began trying to put her finger in on her own. I started snapping away while she sat up and watched as part of her finger disappeared into her body. She seemed fascinated by this.

    For at least ten minutes she would pull her finger out and push it back in to about the second knuckle of her pinkie, watching how it would disappear into her cunt. For my part I was incredibly excited and asked Sam if she wanted a snack. Coming back to reality for a minute she nodded yes and I popped the end of my penis into her mouth. I let loose my load within minutes and sat back and watched as she went back to playing her new game.

    She remained fascinated with her ability to make her fingers disappear. I encouraged her to play her game as often as she wanted and even kept the vaseline jar open so that she could take a swipe whenever she wanted to. I told her that it might be fun for her to try different fingers and within a few weeks she could put any of her fingers (including her thumb) all the way into her vagina.

    At this point I introduced her to placing other objects into her pussy. I made it very clear that she was only to use things which I provided and that she must always wash them with soap and water before using them. One day I called her into another room where I was working. When she ran in I noticed something between her legs. When I asked her what it was she looked down and said it was one of her toys. She then proceeded to lay on the ground and spread her legs showing me the smooth dowel that I had given her firmly embedded in her cunt. She had apparently been playing with it and had not bothered to take it out when I called her into the room. I made this a new game for her. That she should walk around as often as possible with something sticking out of her cunt. I showed her how important it was that before she start to walk around the object be pushed in as deeply as was comfortable to prevent it from coming out. She thought this was a fun idea and took it very seriously always keeping something inside and showing me often. I would praise her when she showed me and playfully pull them out so that I could watch her put them back inside.

    I was slowly increasing the diameter of her play things. By the time she was 3 1/2 years old she was able to put a small dildo inside and walk around with it for hours. I changed the rules a bit by introducing her to anal penetration. Using the same method as before I got her into walking around with things inside both her pussy and ass. I always made sure that she never swapped the two. But it wasn't an issue since the dowel in her ass was initially so much smaller than what she could put into her pussy.

    By this time we were also getting into potty training. When she had to poo we would bring her to the bathroom and use a small child's toilet. But when she had to pee we made it a special occasion. I had bought a special basin which she would squat over to pee. When she was done we would pour the frothy liquid into her special pee glass and then she would drink it while it was still warm. She understood that this was a special drink that only she could produce. It was also at this time that I started making sure that she understood that my cum was a special drink that only I could produce. And that it was something that could only be shared between a father and a daughter.

    When Sam was five I went to our local authorities and petitioned for the right to school her at home. There was no problem with doing this with the understanding that once each year Sam would undergo some standardized tests to make sure that she was making adequate progress. I obtained as much documentation as possible about the required studies of a kindergarten through second-grader and prepared to start Sam's more formal education.

    Since so much of our life was a game to Sam I decided to continue to use this approach for her academics. This proved very effective and she began quickly mastering the alphabet, numbers, tying her shoes, and all of the other very important skills normally required of a 5-year-old.

    Since it helped to have a routine for learning we would begin the day by having lessons and games which helped her develop skills. I would create lessons for her to work on while I would be working and she would come and ask questions about things as she needed help. I found that Sam's mind was very quick and that she seemed to enjoy a slightly more formalized approach to learning. I also noticed that she seemed surprisingly focused for so young a child.

    Since we were evolving into a routine around learning I decided to include some new skill sets that she could work on developing. By this time it was normal for her to wander around for most of the day with a 5" dildo in her vagina and a 3" dildo in her ass. I told her that it was important that she learn how to avoid relying on things like vaseline. Using the excuse that it was better to avoid artificial materials whenever possible I suggested that she always use her own saliva or urine to lubricate her toys when she put them in. I emphasized that for her pussy she could use either liquid but for her anal toys she could only use piss. I didn't want her to be licking anything that had been in her ass. After that I would often see her pull the dildo out of her vagina and put it in her mouth to make it wetter.

    At this time I also went out and bought a series of dildos which started at about the same size as the one she was using and got gradually longer and wider. I showed her the collection of dildos and assigned her the task of learning gradually how to make them fit inside of her. I told her that it was up to her how quickly she progressed and that the most important thing about it was that she never be uncomfortable. Once I had explained her assignment she asked when she should start. I told her that she could begin anytime that she was ready. At that she sat down and slipped the dildo out of her pussy. Grabbing the next larger instrument she coated it with her saliva and started trying to slip it in. I told her that I was very proud to see her learning such important things and then left her to work on her own.

    By the end of three months Sam had progressed very quickly in her studies. She was already beyond what the normal kindergarten curriculum actually required of students and was moving into the first grade material. She had also gotten to the point that she could easily insert the largest of the dildos into her pussy. I remember the first time that she was able to do it. I heard a scream of joy and then she ran into my office yelling "I did it, Daddy! Look!" She then dropped to the ground, spread her legs, and pointed at her crotch. Neatly embedded in her little cunt was a 6 1/2" dildo. I praised her and once again told her how proud I was of her progress. I asked her whether or not she was comfortable with her new toy inside of her. She said that she felt a little full and stretched but it wasn't too bad. I told her that now it was important to become very comfortable with this size toy. She was to be able to pop it in and out without feeling any discomfort. She promised to try very hard and I picked her up and hugged her.

    I told her that since she had been working and studying so hard that we needed to take a break. I suggested that we go for a walk in the woods together and she thought that was a great idea. Since we weren't sure who might be in the woods we decided to get dressed before leaving. It was a beautiful day out with just a mild breeze. The sunlight dappled the forest floor which was soft to walk on because of all of the leaves which fell from the trees throughout the years. We walked for about half an hour before Sam announced that she was very thirsty and that she had to pee. When she realized that we didn't have her special container for her to pee in she became upset. She didn't want to waste any of her pee because she felt it was too special. I told her that if you had to waste it every now and then because of very special circumstances that it was ok. I suggested that she just lift up her dress (she never wore panties) and pee wherever she wanted to. Looking around she found a nice spot a few feet off of the trail that we had been following. She bunched her dress around her waist, squatted down, and let loose with a lovely stream of piss. When she was done she announced that she was still very thirsty. I told her that I also had to pee and that we could solve both problems at once. I told her to kneel down in front of me and to take out my penis. Once she had done this I had her cover the tip of my dick with her mouth. I then told her that I would piss very slowly so that she could swallow when she needed to. I gently relaxed and slowly dribbled my urine into her mouth. I would stop whenever I felt her swallow and then continued until I was done. She licked my penis and then put it away for me. Standing up she smiled beautifully and said that she wasn't thirsty anymore. With that she ran away shouting "Can't catch me, can't catch me!". I took off after her and we spent a lovely afternoon exploring the woods.

    Later that week I asked how she was doing with her toy. She told me that she was very comfortable walking around with it and that it didn't feel very tight anymore. I asked her to show me and she came over and laid down on the floor in front of me. The dildo was nicely placed inside of her pussy. I asked if she could move it at all and she grabbed the end and started to slide it in and out. I told her I was very excited about it and asked if she was ready to try a new game. She asked what type of game and I told her that she was ready to do something very special with her Daddy. I told her to take the dildo out of her pussy and to follow me to our bedroom. Once there I told her that we were going to try using my penis like one of her toys. I had her lie back on the bed with her legs spread. I spent about five minutes licking her little cunt and getting it nice and wet. I then had her sit up and lick and suck my penis until it was both hard and wet. Then I laid on my back with my penis sticking straight up. I told her that she should try putting my dick into her pussy by slowly sitting down on it. She smiled and told me that it should be easy since her latest toy was bigger than my penis. With that she crawled onto the bed with me. She stood up and put one leg on either side of my hips. She squatted down and grabbed my penis. Placing the head of my dick against her wet opening she slowly lowered herself. I groaned as I watched inch by inch of my penis disappear into her pussy. I was in heaven. I hadn't been inside a woman in over five years and this was unbelievable. I resisted the urge to buck my hips up to meet her because I wanted to make sure that she got it in at her own pace. Within just a few minutes I was buried to the hilt in my five-year-old daughter.

    She looked down at me and smiled saying, "See Daddy, that was easy!". I was so turned on that I could barely contain myself. I suggested that she try bouncing up and down to see what it felt like. She lifted herself up a few inches and then came back down again. I groaned and she asked if I was alright. I told her that I liked that way that felt on my penis. She smiled and started to bounce up and down. It only took about 30 seconds of that before I grabbed her by the hips and pulled her tightly down on my cock and shot a huge load into her pussy. She asked what had happened and I told her that I had hidden her treat inside of her.

    With that she stood up slowly, releasing my still erect penis from her small cunt with a pop. Seeing that my penis was covered in cum she quickly laid down and licked it clean. When I asked her where the rest of her treat was she that she could feel it inside of her. I told her to show me and she flipped around and spread her legs. Her little cunt lips were closed tightly. She told me that she was holding it inside so that she didn't loose any of it. I asked her how she planned to eat it and she looked perplexed for a moment. Then her face brightened and she said "With a spoon!". I got off of the bed and went into the kitchen. I got one of her baby spoons and brought it back to the bedroom. She was still laying back with her legs spread and waiting for me. I warmed the spoon until it was almost hot to the touch and then gave it to her. She sat up and tried to see how to get the spoon into her pussy. I reached over for a small mirror and positioned it so that she could see the opening. She relaxed her pussy enough to let the spoon slip inside. I watched as she brought it back out holding a mouthful of my cream which she then proceeded to eat. Kicking myself for letting this photo opportunity almost pass I asked her to wait for just a minute and ran for my camera. When I returned I had her take a few more spoonfuls out of her pussy while I snapped away. I then slipped a pillow underneath her ass. This positioned her so that her cunt slit was almost horizontal. I had her use both hands to spread herself as wide as possible and also to relax her pussy muscles. Her little opening slowly relaxed into a small hole. I told her to push a bit and watched as I was rewarded with the site of a big blob of my own cum oozing out of my daughters pussy. I snapped away as I told her to use her fingers to feed herself her snack. She pushed out as much cum as possible and transferred it to her mouth. She commented that it tasted differently than normal. When I asked if she enjoyed the taste, she told me that she thought it was better! I picked her up and hugged her tightly telling her how much I loved her and how happy she made me.

    From that day on we made love as often as possible. Sam figured out quickly that the best way to be sure to get all of my sperm out of her little pussy was to keep her piss bowl near. When we were done she would squat over the bowl, open herself with her fingers, and push my load out. She would then eat it with a spoon or just use her fingers to scoop it up into her mouth. Sometimes if she had to go or she just felt thirsty she would finish letting my cum drain from her and then piss into the bowl. After mixing my cum and her piss together in the bowl with her fingers she would drain the whole thing in just a few gulps.

    She became my little love slave. I would never have to ask her twice to suck me off or spread her legs so that I could fuck her. And she absolutely NEVER wasted my cum. She always managed to find a way to make sure she ate it.

    She was actually the one who asked whether she could try using my dick in her ass instead of one of her toys. I saw that she had worked up her anal toys until they were almost as large as my penis. I told her that we could certainly try but that since she had not yet reached a large enough size we should use some vaseline to make things more slippery. She slipped her toy out of her ass and then ran into the bathroom to get the vaseline. I met her coming out of the bathroom and we went to our bedroom together. She got on her hands and knees and stuck her ass back at me. I could see her little anal sphincter winking at me. I dipped my fingers into the vaseline and coated all around her asshole. I then did the same for my penis. I scooted her to the edge of the bed so that I could stand behind her with my dick at the same level as her opening. This gave me the most control so that I could go very slowly.

    As I placed the head of my dick at her entrance I said, "Honey, I'm going to push very slowly. You let me know if anything feels uncomfortable, OK?"

    "OK, Daddy", she replied.

    I held my penis in my hand and put gentle pressure on her sphincter. Since she was already trained to relax and accept things into her ass the head popped right in. I stopped at once and just stood motionless with the head of my dick in my little girls ass.

    "How is it, Honey?", I asked.

    "I little tight but it feels kinda good", she said.

    "How about if I just stay here and you push back, that way you can control how much is inside?", I asked.

    "OK, here I go!", she said.

    With that, I felt her pushing back into me. My penis started to sink into her anal cavity at a slow but steady pace.

    A few minutes later she said "I can't go back any farther, Daddy". The reason for that was because there was nothing of me left outside.

    "Sam, I'm all the way in. Why don't you try to move a little. We'll see how that feels for you."

    She began to pull forward. My dick slipped out about two inches before she moved back towards me. Her ass was so incredibly tight! All of her training with her toys had made her large enough to take my dick inside of her without a problem. However, it didn't take away from the fact that she was small! As she pulled forward again I pulled back so that more of my penis came out of her ass. Within a few minutes we had reached the point where I was at full stroke. As I reached my orgasm I slid all the way into her and just held her in that position.

    "I can feel my treat coming out!", she cried as I pumped her ass full of my cream. It took me a few minutes to just come down off of my orgasmic rush. I slowly slipped out of her ass and then lay down on the bed. She snuggled up for a few minutes and then I felt her slither down my body.

    I knew what she was going to do so I said, "Honey, you shouldn't clean me up after I've been inside your bottom. You could get sick"

    "But Daddy, I can't waste my treat!", she cried.

    "Sweetheart, it's not wasted, it's still inside of you." I said, trying to cheer her up.

    Pouting she looked at me for a minute and then said, "I don't think I'd get sick."

    "Remember, dear, how I've always warned you not to lick your butt toys? The reason was that you could catch a bug from them."

    "But Daddy, I have licked them before...."

    I was stunned. I asked her to explain.

    "Well, one day I was walking around with one of my newer, bigger butt toys inside when it fell out", she said. "I picked it up and was trying to get it back in but it was not slippery enough. I didn't have to pee and I remembered what you said about not using my spit but I didn't want to bother you since you were working real hard on the computer so I just stuck it in my mouth and got it all wet before putting it back inside."

    "When was that, dear", I asked suddenly getting very concerned about Sam's health.

    "Months ago, daddy", she said.

    "And have you done that any more?", I asked.

    "Oh, every day since then. I kind of like the taste of it so I just kept doing it."

    I tried to recall if Sam had been sick at all during the last few months but she had always seemed fine.

    "Have you felt bad at all after doing that, Sam?"

    "No Daddy, I feel fine!", she said. "Can I please clean you off now?" she pleaded with those puppy dog eyes which no father can ever resist.

    "Well, since it seems ok I guess you can", I said.

    "Yippee!" and with that she stuffed my dick into her mouth and proceeded to clean me thoroughly.

    Once done she got up and said, "I still have your treat in me and I wanna eat it!" I thought about it for a few minutes and told her to wait there. I went into the kitchen and got a plate. Coming back into the bedroom I put the plate on the ground and asked her to come over. I reached for my camera and then had her squat down as only children can so that her asshole was just above the plate. I backed up a little and told her to try to relax and let her treat come out if she could. She seemed to concentrate for a few seconds and then I saw a stream of liquid coming from her little puckered asshole and dribbling onto the plate. She did that for about 30 seconds before the stream stopped.

    "I think that's all of it", she said.

    Standing up she looked down at the plate and then picked it up. Apparently deciding that a spoon was not needed she just stood there in the middle of the bedroom and licked the plate clean. I snapped away as she would take a lick and come away from the plate with a streamer of sperm hanging from her chin. When she was finished there was not a drop left anywhere.

    "Thank you, Daddy, that was yummy!", she said.

    I put the camera down and picked her up.

    "I think it's shower-time for you and me, little girl." I flipped her over my shoulder and started tickling her as we headed for the bathroom. She giggled and screamed all the way there....

    After being introduced to anal sex Sam would purposely try different combinations. We would watch entire videos with her ass impaled on my dick. If I came in her pussy she would purposely take a large finger full of cum and dip it in her ass before licking it clean. While making love we would start in her pussy and end up in her ass. Sometimes I would even change holes from one to the other while actually cumming, this way depositing my seed in both places. She would then perform her squat and leak all of my cum out of each hole and claiming that this was the best taste combination of all. Sometimes she would walk around for an hour with my cum in her before she decided that she was hungry enough to eat it. She liked to keep it warm this way.

    It was funny to think about my little girl. At almost six years old she was perfectly normal in almost every way. She ran and played and giggled and cried and asked questions until I couldn't come up with any more answers. And she was the most exciting lover I had ever had. Perhaps it was because of her little girl nature that I found her so exciting. It was a combination of a game for her as well as something that she knew made her daddy feel good. Plus it was a way for her to receive her daily snacks. Since that day with her and the bottle I don't think a single day had passed that she had not swallowed at least one load of my cum. It was simply a normal part of her life which she could not imagine being without.

    On her sixth birthday I baked her a cake. After singing happy birthday and cutting out a slice she asked if I could put her treat on it. I stood up and told her that I might need some help. She knelt down in front of me and took as much of me into her mouth as she could. Once hard she turned around and bent over offering me her charms. I asked her which hole she preferred and she asked for her cunny since it had a sweeter flavor. I happily fucked her beautiful little pussy until I came hard. Smiling she then put the plate containing her slice of cake on the ground, squatted over it, and allowed my cum to drip all over it. Wiping her little slit with her fingers and licking them clean, she then sat back down at the table and proceeded to enjoy her birthday cake.

    Copyright © 1997, Little Love. ALL Rights Reserved

    This story may not be reproduced in any form for profit without the written permission of the author. This story may be freely distributed with this notice attached. The author may be contacted through mrdouble@ix.netcom.com.

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    1. Re:My Tragedy Becomes My Reason for Going On by Genghis+Troll · · Score: -1

      Sorry about your wife, but I am glad that you have found joy even in the face of tragedy. Also, can I borrow your roto-rooter?

    2. Re:My Tragedy Becomes My Reason for Going On by MiTEG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hey, I know you're a big fan of those postings from alt.sex.stories, but there's no reason share this sick incestuous shit with the rest of us.

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    3. Re:My Tragedy Becomes My Reason for Going On by Ralph+JewHater+Nader · · Score: -1

      There are sick incestuous thoughts of a zionist nature! They have no place in a forum of intellectual discussion. Get out of here ya filthy kike!

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  3. I can't tell you more ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... cos the fucking thing's invisible.

  4. Cheney's black list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We cannot afford a stealth warship gap!

    1. Re:Cheney's black list by jon787 · · Score: 0

      At least there isn't a mineshaft or doomsday device gap!

      Ah Dr. Strangelove a great movie!

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  5. Don't tell anyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not supposed to tell anyone about this, but I heard that it runs Linux.

    1. Re:Don't tell anyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Guffaw!! I forgot about that ubiquitous and necessary Linux plug that was required in each story..This is slashdot after all, can't let one story slip by without the Linux plug...

      ...you dumbass

    2. Re:Don't tell anyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yet another reason it's inferior to American ships.

    3. Re:Don't tell anyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like the "Microsoft Cruiser" that went dead in the water after a computer failure?

    4. Re:Don't tell anyone... by DrEldarion · · Score: 3, Funny

      Those evil commie anti-capitalism russians!

      -- Dr. Eldarion --

    5. Re:Don't tell anyone... by linzeal · · Score: 1

      We lost then and I hate vodka. Do the russians have any other liquor of significance?

  6. Blacklists are back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The report documents 117 campus incidents as ``evidence'' of anti-Americanism. More than 40 professors are named, including the president of Wesleyan University, who suggested in an open letter that ``disparities and injustices'' in American society and the world can lead to hatred and violence.

    1. Re:Blacklists are back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Um, notice that there aren't any -names- on that list, so they weren't actually -named-.

  7. Vodka + Navy = Kursk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    All the stealth technology in the world won't save you when Boris is smashing bottles over live ordnance.

  8. This is stupid... by Colin+Winters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point of this ship must be that it doesn't show up on radar-but does sonar still work on it, or did the Russians manage to quiet the noise of the ship enough? If they didn't, then they're idiots. Even if this did happen, the ship is still dumb. Unless the ship can somehow cloak itself (impossible) satellites will be able to pick it up. The ship won't be able to move fast enough to avoid detection by satellites, rendering the ship's main function useless.

    Colin Winters

    1. Re:This is stupid... by dfranks · · Score: 1

      One of the big ideas of having a low radar profile is to be difficult for missiles to track. I believe pretty much all long range naval missiles (airborne) are radar guided. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, whether you are undetectable by passive sonar or not.

    2. Re:This is stupid... by gregfortune · · Score: 1

      Doesn't it strike you as useful if your enemy has to go through one more hoop to get to you? You do lock your front door, don't you?

    3. Re:This is stupid... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
      Unless the ship can somehow cloak itself ...

      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.

    4. Re:This is stupid... by dadaist · · Score: -1, Troll
      TORA BORA, Afghanistan, Dec 14 (AFP) - US and Afghan forces were engaged in deadly combat with al-Qaeda fighters in eastern Afghanistan Friday as US President George W. Bush denounced those who still doubted Osama bin Laden's responsibility for the September 11 terrorist attacks.

      So how exactly?

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    5. Re:This is stupid... by fireboy1919 · · Score: 2

      I believe pretty much all long range naval missiles (airborne) are radar guided.
      No...not anymore.

      There are now boats/subs capable of launching intelligent missles with absolute navigation the same way sailors used to do it (using the sky), and with sophisticated vision systems that use cameras to identify targets. The technology is also applied to bombs and ICBMs. I guess they figured that stealth exists but invisible doesn't.

      We don't need to bring all of our defenses to bear on a pesky ship. An approximate location and one of our latest navigating missles is enough to destroy most classes of targets (it might not be able to differentiate between two different boats though)...

      If we know we need to use our expensive missles, we can.

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    6. Re:This is stupid... by dygytyz · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The point of the stealth excercise is not to be "invisible", but rather to remain undetected long enough to launch a first strike with super- (or even sub-) sonic missiles.

      Nothing is invisible, but getting in the first punch is just as important. It's called the Alabama Kicking Contest.

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    7. Re:This is stupid... by djrogers · · Score: 4, Interesting
      In order for a satellite to track one of these, you'd have to find it first. What exactly do you think that sattelites use to 'pick up' ships as you put it? It's not visual surveillance - they would be tasked on a ship _after_ its location has been discovered or narrowed down to a relatively small area.

      A visual search of even a thousand square miles (That's approx the possible area after 5 hours at 30 knots) would take a horrendous amount of time, and even then you'd have found one ship and would need the satellite to be fairly dedicated to tracking it.

      Radar and sonar are still the only reliable ways to find ocean going vessels, and the technology to severely reduce the effectiveness of sonar has been around for quite a while. Adding radar mitigating tech to a ship is the last step to making it effectively dissapear, espacially with a few dozen of them around to track...

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    8. Re:This is stupid... by andrewski · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I would be extremely cautious in asessing the Russian Navy as "stupid". They are, and have been since the early 50's, one of two pre-eminent navies in the world. After WW2, in what was known as project paperclip, the US and USSR bargained over, and assimilated, prominent German scientists. They got many of the naval ones. Also, the Russian sub fleet is much stronger than the US fleet in many key ways, which can be easily researched (http://www.fas.org).

      So of course they muffled the propulsion somehow.

    9. Re:This is stupid... by forgoil · · Score: 5, Interesting

      There is already a stealth boat produced, and I am quite sure that it is not a secret. How do I know? Because I've seen it myself, and so has a lot of other people. Check out Smyge on google and you will know what I mean. Why aren't we then run over with these things? My guess is for the same reason as the US airforce doesn't only fly F117 (which I've also seen live ^_^) and B2s and why YF22/YF23 (dunno if they changed the designation) won't take over quite yet. Cost. We are talking about very expensive pieces of equipment with very very limited uses. It's time to sell farming equipment instead of weapons, the ones who buy need to feed their people!

    10. Re:This is stupid... by Pentagram · · Score: 1

      ...hence the declassification...

    11. Re:This is stupid... by pbarker · · Score: 0

      Actually, visual locations are easy to come by. Your ships may only be several hundred meters long, but their wakes can be several kilometres long. Apparently, in various oceans, this wakes phosphoresce....

      Additionally, thermal imaging can be used from satellites. Fairly easy to pick up a nuclear pile against the sea's background.

    12. Re:This is stupid... by Zarathustra.fi · · Score: 0

      PS. They _do_ track the ships with satellites, but they use their infrared (ie. heat) emissions to see them from the surrounding seawater, which is far more colder than, say, the exhaust fumes the ship produces.

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    13. Re:This is stupid... by RickHunter · · Score: 1

      You make an interesting point... Now that Russia's done this, how long do you think its going to take for the US, UK, etc. to start adding ships like this to their fleets?

      Now, the real question is, what happens when all warships are like this? After all, if radar and sonar are the only real way to spot ships at sea, and you are visible to them and your opponent isn't, you're kind of screwed. Especially if the ships in question can still move at a decent speed and mount missiles like this one has? If all, or even most, warships were virtually invisible to radar, what would that do to naval warfare doctrine?

    14. Re:This is stupid... by ByTor-2112 · · Score: 1

      Excuse me, but that is WAPORIZE.

    15. Re:This is stupid... by _observer · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, just to clarify, just because the ship is stealthy doens't mean that the reaction in the west should be to produce their own stealth ships. You don't need to react by mimic.

      Instead, find out what the ship is designed for, its purpose. Stealth is not a purpose. In this case, the purpose is coastal defence. It is designed to be a defence against invasion. The west may not need a ship with the same purpose.

      It helps to put it in perspective. My understanding of this subject is that after being brutally invaded in the last world war, the former USSR put a lot of money into defense against invasion, including patrol boats (such as this steath boat), coastal SSM and gun batteries, a huge anti-shipping marine air force (i.e. very long range bombers with ASM) and the military build up of a ground based defence in depth (i.e. the former Warsaw Pact). Perhaps they went over-board, but then i'm basised because my home country wasn't invaded in the last war.

      As for what happens when all ships are stealthy? Well, i'm guessing that there is as much money going into detecting steathly vehicles (subs, ships, tanks, planes and missles) as there is going into building them. It's a battle between offense and defence that is as old as human civilization. As steath techniques make it difficult to detect using current radars, defence establishments will build new steath detecting radars (different frequencies, more power), or perhaps lasers. A good example that this stealth ship is not the beginning of the next dreadnaught-race, submarines have been near invisable for decades, but navies just learn to deal with the threat and continue operating.

      In conclusion, i just don't see a need for an immediate reaction to a small (less than 2000 tons) patrol craft. Perhaps countries more fearing of sea-based invasion (ok, the UK would be on my list here, but also Germany and Japan come to mind). And that's not guessing at who the invader would be, but just a list of countries that would venerable.

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    16. Re:This is stupid... by Guppy06 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "A visual search of even a thousand square miles (That's approx the possible area after 5 hours at 30 knots) would take a horrendous amount of time, and even then you'd have found one ship and would need the satellite to be fairly dedicated to tracking it."

      You neglect to mention the size of the wake of a ship going at 30 knots. It's easy to find something small when you have two long lines pointing right to it.

      Also, you ignored the infrared. Unless these things are nuclear, it's going to have a tail pipe and the corresponding exhaust plume.

      "Radar and sonar are still the only reliable ways to find ocean going vessels, and the technology to severely reduce the effectiveness of sonar has been around for quite a while."

      For underwater vessels. For an awful lot of money you can make a submarine somewhat harder to find with passive sonar, but a submarine doesn't have to slice through the surface of the water. Which brings us back to the wake...

      "Adding radar mitigating tech to a ship is the last step to making it effectively dissapear, espacially with a few dozen of them around to track..."

      Stealth doesn't make it impossible to find, only difficult (making it impossible would violate a thermodynamic law or two), and it becomes quite easy once you know the signature of what you're looking for. Besides, hiding from the radar on your average destroyer is one thing, hiding from an Aegis cruiser is something else.

    17. Re:This is stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Computer equipment does most of the finding and in less time then you would think. You sound as if an operator is looking for the ship. We do have over dozens of satellites currently dedicated to this task.

    18. Re:This is stupid... by Hew · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Fwiw: Smyge was the first test platform in the Swedish stealth programme. Apparently it was successful enough that the Royal Swedish Navy decided to go ahead and order six corvettes based on Smyge technology. These corvettes have been dubbed the "Visby Class Corvette" (the first vessel built was the Visby, named after a Swedish city). The shipyard has some information about the Visby corvettes. The Visby naming ceremony, held in June 2000, was reported on by Jane's defense.

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    19. Re:This is stupid... by bmajik · · Score: 2

      Actually its quite likely that the US knows the location of every russian ship within some radius and russia knows the location of every US ship, within some radius.

      After all, we know where all their ports and navy bases are. A ship of a given maximum speed can only move so much in a given non-satellite-covered time window. We see the thing as soon as it goes to sea, and if we dont have an eye pointed at it for 5 hours, when we look again we know its somewhere within a 5 hour radius, as you allude to.

      I mean really. How hard is it to say "oh yeah, i think thats a ship, its the only thing leaving a 3 mile wake anywhere in this picture"

      Disclaimer - I'm not in the navy, and I think Tom Clancy is cool. Flame away :)

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    20. Re:This is stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I assume one satellite needed per every ship to track. So, how many satellites can you have, if they have a 100 of these ships scattered all around the ocean? Besides, satellites are fairly easy to shut at with rockets and then they will be unstoppable!

    21. Re:This is stupid... by thanq · · Score: 1
      Also, the Russian sub fleet is much stronger than the US fleet in many key ways, which can be easily researched

      Their sinkings and nuclear accidents are far more often occuring than those of U.S.

      I believe that it's better to have less more reliable subs than a lot of them that have low-morale crews, technical problems, and run aground or explode so often.

    22. Re:This is stupid... by Cheese+Metal+Rulez!! · · Score: -1

      An Aegis cruiser simply has a slightly less obsolete fire control computer than the rest of the western world. They have the same radar and sonar/sosus.

      Lets face it, no US ship has actually been attacked in decades, they all still suffer the legacy of the pathetically designed ships of WWII.

      Remember that electrical fire that crippled a carrier for days?
      What if that had been a missile strike or bomb hit?

      DEAD.

      That's what your precious ship would be.

    23. Re:This is stupid... by Guppy06 · · Score: 1
      "An Aegis cruiser simply has a slightly less obsolete fire control computer than the rest of the western world. They have the same radar and sonar/sosus."

      From http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/weapo ns/wep-aeg.html
      The Aegis system was designed as a total weapon system, from detection to kill. The heart of the system is an advanced, automatic detect and track, multi-function phased-array radar, the AN/SPY-1. This high powered (four megawatt) radar is able to perform search, track and missile guidance functions simultaneously with a track capacity of over 100 targets.
      "Lets face it, no US ship has actually been attacked in decades,"

      I know someone that might have been able to argue with you, but he died on the USS Cole.

      "they all still suffer the legacy of the pathetically designed ships of WWII."

      What, they all have rows upon rows of anti-aircraft guns? The main weapon of choice is still the gun? A ship's main defense is still several feet of steel armor? Submarines can only submerge for a few hours at a time? A ship's main navigation tool is its chronometer? We still build our navies around our battleship fleet?

      If anything, design ideas from WWII are shunned too much. The battleship is still very valuable in brown-water operations (if not cheaper in the long run than missile barges), and a steel armor belt instead of glorified aluminum foil would have saved several RN ships in the Faulklands from Exocets.

      "Remember that electrical fire that crippled a carrier for days?"

      No. Details? The most recent carrier fire I can think of USS Forrestal (sp?), and that wasn't electrical.

      "What if that had been a missile strike or bomb hit?"

      Missiles have to deal with Phalanxes, bombers have to deal with a whole mess of fighters. Next question.
    24. Re:This is stupid... by Syberghost · · Score: 2

      In order for a satellite to track one of these, you'd have to find it first. What exactly do you think that sattelites use to 'pick up' ships as you put it?

      Magnetic anomoly detectors.

    25. Re:This is stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am ex-navy, satellite systems linked to
      Aegis will see this, it is for third world
      threats I am thinking .

      Ex-misltech

    26. Re:This is stupid... by Cheese+Metal+Rulez!! · · Score: -1

      Pathetic WWII design - Aircraft carriers with damage control and armour scheme that can almost but not quite protect them from the absolute least effective attack they could ever be expected to suffer never mind a real threat.

      I didn't know the USS Cole was attacked in a naval action.
      Was it an aircraft, missile, submarine or another surface vessel that attacked USS Cole and killed this friend of yours that didn't exist until you found your argument was too weak to stand on its own and would be improved by some shock value?
      I'm intrigued.

    27. Re:This is stupid... by Guppy06 · · Score: 1

      "Pathetic WWII design - Aircraft carriers with damage control"

      I'm assuming you're still talking about that vague reference to "that carrier" you can't name.

      "armour scheme"

      Armor?

      We're living in an age where surface combattants never get within visual range to damage each other. In order for a plane or missile to reach a CVN to damage it, it would need to avoid the Aegis system in its battlegroup as well as any Hawkeyes that may be airborne. Once they're spotted, they have to deal with the fighters flying CAP. If it's a low-flying missile, it still has to deal with the several Phalanxes mounted on the ship.

      Submarines have to avoid the destroyers in the battlegroup, and will have to also deal with helicopters if the DDs find anything questionable.

      Why do you need armor, especially when designing a ship that needs to go fast enough for carrier operations as well as get to the other side of the globe ASAP?

      "I didn't know the USS Cole was attacked in a naval action."

      You seem to have a problem calling it naval action. If it "doesn't count" becuase it was a suicide attack, what were the dozens of ships sank by kamikazes experiencing? If it's the sneak attack by an undeclared combatant while in port that bothers you, what was Pearl Harbor? And if you're having a problem with the way the attackers weren't formally members of a foreign military, I reccomend you look up the so-called Quasi-War with France and the Barbary Wars early in US history.

      The USS Cole was crippled by an attack from a hostile surface vessel. Period. Just because it wasn't Trafalgar or Jutland or Coral Sea doesn't mean it wasn't "naval action."

      Do you even consider the threat to USS Vincennes to have been "naval action?"

      "this friend of yours that didn't exist until you found your argument was too weak"

      Josh Parlett was from Churchville, MD. I grew up in Harford County and his sister was engaged to a friend of mine from high school. He took the death kinda hard because they had a fight shortly before shipping off for the last time.

      ... not that you'll believe me after this, and not that it matters either way. He's still just as dead.

    28. Re:This is stupid... by Cheese+Metal+Rulez!! · · Score: -1

      I'm sorry, I didn't realise you have such limited understanding of the language.

      Let me clarify.

      Armour/armor: Very hard stuff made out of METAL, any of this hard stuff above and beyond that required to keep the inside of the boat inside is "armour". You'll notice if you look into the matter that US carriers have a great deal of armour although certainly not on the WWII battleship/belt armour scale.
      The majority of this armour is wasted.

      Damage control: Procedures and physical measures designed to ensure survival in case of damage.
      Any US ship could be effectively eliminated by a single hit due to enormous over-confidence in untested defensive capabilities.

      USS Cole "naval action": If a tree falls on my car while parked in my drive I do not call it a car accident, even though it was accidental and involved a car.
      It would have made no difference if it had been Cole or a barracks or a pot plant that exploded and killed a US serviceman's dog by clay shrapnel thereby causing the owner to be distracted enough that he swallows a passing sparrow, choking him to death.

      Josh Parlett: "...and not that it matters either way..." then why did you bring it up?

      Seriously, I want you to defend this cheap classless ploy, you mustn't think much of his memory to be so disrespectful, whether you knew him or just had a quick google search to find the name of a random dead guy.

      *drinks to Josh*

  9. How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Buran · · Score: 2

    I remember seeing footage and video of the Sea Shadow stealth ship. I'd be intersted in seeing photos of this one; does it look as wedgy as our own stealth ships do? Or does it look similar to "regular" naval vessels with some minor reshaping that ends up having a major effect on the radar cross-section?

    1. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by abolith · · Score: 1

      prolly closer to a "Normal" ship. I saw a proto ship the french came up with a few years ago and was VERY similar to a normal one, witht the exeption that it had alot of wedge angles instead of standard rounded edges on it. then again it was only made a a Partial-stealth and ours are used for special forces/navy seals and need to give the max stealth possible for silent insertion.

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    2. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      also our stealth ships are also sonar stealth not just radar

    3. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by dadaist · · Score: 1

      Dulce et decorum est
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    4. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Well, almost.

      The only noise they couldn't get rid off was the constant sucking and fucking noise made by the crew.

    5. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Comrade... do you think that was a whale?"

      [Steely-eyed] "Nyet, ensign. Nyet."

    6. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by rchatterjee · · Score: 1

      Actually not all US stealth(y) ship designs are for special ops. The CVN 77 is a new stealthy Aircraft carrier design.

    7. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      I don't get it.

      The superstructure is so bare. Where's the radar located?

    8. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      most likely it just downlinks the data from a Aegis cruser in its task force, but then again it could have some hiddin phased array radar setup.

    9. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by DirtyDuck · · Score: 1

      If it gets a downlink from a ship in it's taskforce then surely the whole idea is pointless? You've got a ship sitting there which radar cannot see and right next to it you've got another ship blasting away with it's radar!

      I doubt very much you could hide an entire task force from radar for very long.

    10. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Tackhead · · Score: 2
      > Dulce et decorum est
      > Pro patria mori.

      But I'd still prefer to make some other son of a bitch die for his country.

      Those who beat their swords into plowshares will till the fields of those who didn't.

    11. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But I'd still prefer to make some other son of a bitch die for his country.

      When Patton originally said this, he used "poor bastard" not "son of a bitch".

  10. Links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    More broken links - trying to find out about missiles gets you redirected to the homepage.

    Hemos - click on the links to see if they work first.

    1. Re:Links by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

      Give Hemos a break about the links. He's still struggling with the transition from Velcro to shoelaces, for crying out loud.

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    2. Re:Links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I apologise for my insensitivity.

    3. Re:Links by dadaist · · Score: 0

      The more we travel, the more we get back to where we begin.

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  11. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Tsar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd assume that Russia's intent with this craft is not to launch a war against the U.S., but to give them the ability to approach other radar-equipped ships at sea without raising the alarm, with the side benefit of being impervious to radar-guided weaponry. Very useful for drug interdiction, coastal patrol, and generally dealing with seafaring baddies who don't have minute-by-minute satellite imagery at their disposal. I think that includes 95% of the world (and most of the U.S. fleet as well.)

    Just because the combined intelligence resources of the West could be brought to bear to track one of these things doesn't mean it's useless. Our carriers are pretty easy to spot, and look how handy they've been lately.

  12. Hmm by arsaspe · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well sure, if you want to fight the USA or Russia.

      If I were you guys, I would go for New Zealand. It's right there, annoying, and their best ships are yachts.

    2. Re:Hmm by el'gwato · · Score: 1

      heheh heheh Ha HA! That's some funny shit

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    3. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      What's the point of having something new if everyone knows what it is?

      You mean like detonating nuclear and hydrogen bombs and inviting the world press to watch?

    4. Re:Hmm by zulux · · Score: 2

      Something tells me we (AU) wouldnt win a war.

      You'd win a war if somone started picking on you. We'd help you (US), Canada would help you, England would be there - hell, Russia would probably help you.

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    5. Re:hmm by emn-slashdot · · Score: 1

      Maybe they are trying to say, "Hey, if we are willing to tell you about this shit... Imagine the shit we have stock-piled!!"

      Just a thought...

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    6. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not if the bully was China, which, quite frankly is the only unpredictable force in the region.

    7. Re:Hmm by Jarvo · · Score: 1

      You forgot that they're DIESEL submarines.

      Compared with the nuclear ones, they suck because they have to dick about on the surface all the time. You can only run a sub for a short amount of time on battery power before you have to surface for air for the engine. Even with a snorkel, you're still virtually on the surface.

      It's more of a question of which makes more sense: a mechanical shark or a mechanical dolphin?

      (Yes, I am Australian)

    8. Re:Hmm by arsaspe · · Score: 1

      It's not just that they are Diesel- The Collins class were a major fuckup by the AU Government. They are too noisy to be of any real use, and also have severe computer problems (They can't even fire a torpedo without crashing).

      There is a project in place to fix the problems, and I don't know how much success they've had so far, but when the Collins were first produced they were a joke.

    9. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Hmmm, so there was this Joint fleet excersise a few years ago, and the aussie diesels managed to surface inside the radius of a us carrier battle group, the captain took a picture of the layout of the ships around him with periscope and faxed the data to the flag on the battle group.. the us were not impressed... sure these were not collins class, they were 30 year old diesel's......

      The moral is just becuase you have the best toys doesnt mean your the best, it all depends how you use your assets

    10. Re:Hmm by lrichardson · · Score: 2
      "...virtually on the surface."

      There was a project back in the seventies, about building a very fast boat. The design had the engines mounted in a pair of torpedo-shaped nacelles, which ran under water, some stilts going 10+ feet up (streamlined, and only a few inches wide), and a flat bottomed 'boat' - designed to run above the water. The boat would float at rest, but didn't move very well on the surface. Height was controlled by wings on the stilts. One of the spin-offs virtually abandoned the platform above water, such that the stilts were used solely for getting air down to the engines, and for maintaining position.

      The reason I remember that platform was a comment at the time - about it being functionally invisible to both radar and sonar - not enough of the boat above water, and sonar really sucks when something is that close to the surface. Not that this beast was built with quiet engines .

      These 'stealth' boats are more along the lines of 'reduced profile'. I'd think a true stealth boat would require a fundamental redesign, perhaps something like the above.

    11. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As an Aussie - I'd have to say - this guy should be modded *up* - he's only speaking the truth :)

      But really - we liberated Timor with one guy getting shot in the leg.....so if it came down to an old fashioned "kick em in the ass" style fight - we seem to have a pretty impressive record (including Boar war, WW1&2, Korea - lets not talk about vietnam - oh and at least 3 of those wars the english fucked us - any one know which ones? :)

    12. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We would help them against China. Certianly China wouldn't attack Australia while South Korea, the Phillipines, Japan and Taiwan was still in US friendly hands.

    13. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Becaus we really need another sub with 15 neuclear warheads in the ocean

    14. Re:Hmm by shocking · · Score: 2, Informative

      In the recent US/Australia exercises, the Collins class subs got close enough to US warships a number of times to be able to score a kill without being detected. Much of the hooha about their noise is disinformation.

    15. Re:Hmm by gordguide · · Score: 1

      First of all, diesel-electric submarines are able to run silent. Nuclear subs create detectable noise. That is why DE subs are still being developed by nuclear-capeable nations such as the UK.

      WWII era diesel subs had to surface often (24 hours at most) but modern ones can stay down for more than 30 days. Nuclear subs have the advantage of staying down for extreme periods (many months), which is why they are also still deployed. To be truly effective, you need both.

    16. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah but mate that V8 sure sounds good!

    17. Re:hmm by Anonymous+Pancake · · Score: -1

      Agreed, france is nuts.

    18. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To add one more to this list:

      New Zealand
      All we got is sticks and stones, becuase we just disbanded our air force!

    19. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      New Zealand had an air force? What did they fly? Piper Cubs?

    20. Re:Hmm by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 2
      Good point. I'd also like to point out a tactical advantage diesel subs have over nuclear powered boats. In a nuclear powered sub, you can't turn off the reactor. Yes, there is much less noise for most of the time, but there is always some. Coolant pumps, etc. In a diesel boat running on batteries, all you have to power when hiding is lifesupport systems, and even those you can turn off for a brief period of time. The end result is that a diesel sub can emit all of NO noise.

      This is of special benefit in shallow water areas like the Persian Gulf. If a diesel sub really wanted to poke a couple of holes in a carrier, it could. Whether it could escape is another story, but a surface ship is entirely vulnerable to a determined foe.

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    21. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the US has GPS bombs as well as laser guided bombs but the next gen with DAMASK technology will be accurate within 3 meters (like laser guided bombs) but also in bad weather (like gps bombs)

    22. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Something tells me we (AU) wouldnt win a war.

      Only because you didn't buy enough US technology from Toshiba some years back when they were selling it to the highest bidder.

    23. Re:Hmm by gordguide · · Score: 1

      Absolutely. I thought I said the same thing, but you said it a bit better.

    24. Re:Hmm by wroot · · Score: 1

      Stealth ships with supersonic torpedoes?! I'd rather believe in supersonic ships with stealth torpedoes...

    25. Re:Hmm by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      ...and then, since the ship is so quiet, instead of looking for noise you look for a hole in the ocean where there is no noise :).

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    26. Re:Hmm by yani · · Score: 1
      Canada:
      'Stealth' Canoes (they must be invisible to radar come on ;)

      Somehow I don't think we'd win a war either so I wouldn't worry ;)

    27. Re:Hmm by sethanon · · Score: 1

      I assume you meant the Boer War...

      AFAIK we have been impressively unsuccessful in eliminating the menace of feral pigs ;-)

    28. Re:Hmm by gordguide · · Score: 1

      Actually you can turn off the "life support" systems too (and they do). They use oxygen generating canisters (they call them "candles" in the navy I know) and C02 eating canisters. They are perfectly silent, chemical pods about 2 feet tall and less than a foot around. Each one is good for 2 hours.

    29. Re:Hmm by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 1

      isnt that what i said? funny, cause i realized that i did the same thing to the person i replied to.

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  13. hmm by Anonymous+Pancake · · Score: -1

    Russia isn't going to get ahead by DECLASSIFYING it's modern weapons.

    What's the point of having something new if everyone knows what it is?

  14. US stealth craft by tuxlove · · Score: 1

    Hasn't the US had a stealth warship for some time now? I don't know if they ever deployed it, but there was an experimental Navy craft housed in Alameda CA that only came out at night until the project was no longer secret. It looked like a cubist Batboat, or an F117 strapped to a catamaran.

    What ever happened to that project?

    1. Re:US stealth craft by Silver222 · · Score: 2, Funny
      It got used in a James Bond movie. The one with the guy who was in all the car ads.

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    2. Re:US stealth craft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You might just want to look at the U.S. Arleigh Burke class of destroyers - they have been around for quite a while.

    3. Re:US stealth craft by Jburkholder · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Intelligence by clambert · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's just hope the US government doesn't resort to Slashdot as an intelligence source... ;-)

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  16. USS ENTERPRISE by LS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right here, bitches

    No, this aint a troll. See the headline.

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    1. Re:USS ENTERPRISE by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

      Har har har.

      Hey dope, where do you think Star Trek got the name from? Check out the year on that carrier, Einstein.

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    2. Re:USS ENTERPRISE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are you, a fuckhead? What does this have to do with Star Trek?

    3. Re:USS ENTERPRISE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What does it have to do with Russia declassifying a "stealth" warship?

    4. Re:USS ENTERPRISE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i love the %20 in the URL the navy has got some great IT guys

    5. Re:USS ENTERPRISE by Al+Gore · · Score: -1
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  17. More information by neksys · · Score: 1

    It turns out its not a new ship at all. They consulted Microsoft on technology recycling. Funny that it looks a lot like a floating Mir...

    1. Re:More information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Well, microsoft are definetly experts at recovering from crashes.

      In related news, the Russian navy has switched to a new "three finger salute". :-)

    2. Re:More information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So where did they mount the third hand?

  18. If it's anything like MIR... by Bonker · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Then 'Stealth' means it looks like a duct-tape bound pile of junk, similiar to what is usually found in my redneck neighbor's driveway.

    Frankly, I'm surprised that the Russian government has money to spend on Military R&D when they just recently resorted to renting out the Russian segments of the ISS/Alpha as a tourist trap. Perhaps this practice is paying off?

    Whatever is the case, I hope that this signals that the Russians are able to start competing in terms of scientific and technological advances again. Competition is good, and competition between superpowers-- so long as they're not openly hostile about it-- can result in some pretty impressive things.... The Apollo Program for example.

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    1. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by MisterBlister · · Score: 1
      People are still bashing The Mir?

      The Mir was ridiculously successful..Sure, it had some trouble in its last couple of years, but the station outlived its original mission plan for many years.

      Bashing Mir renders the rest of your post irrelevant by marking you a fool whose knowledge of Mir comes from Jay Leno jokes.

    2. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by Krapangor · · Score: 1, Interesting
      A pile of duct tape junk might seem ridiculus, but it worked. The MIR had the double lifetime it was designed for. And I must remind you that the US hadn't build a decent space station, a technology which will be crucial for interplanetary travel. And why the cooperation for the Russians on the Alpha space station ? Because the US has no cheap supply spaceship (shuttles are too expensive) and they have no technology for building decent space stations.

      I the context of the Russian ship the pile of duct tape would work like this:
      Hey, sonar shows a huge pile of duct tape approaching !
      Hmmm, doesn't seem dangerous, just the ole russian crap...
      Hey something goes off there !
      What ?
      Oh, seems like a ultrasonic miss...KABOOM

      It's good when technology has a nice wrapping, but the most important thing about technology is that is works. Which is in fact the case for many russian things.

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    3. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by linca · · Score: 1

      Sounds like stuff that was developped quite some time ago, i.e. it was developped by the soviets, not the Russians, at a time when they didn't count the money they put in R&D

    4. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by Sarcasm_Orgasm · · Score: 0, Funny

      People are still bashing Jay Leno?

      Jay Leno is ridiculously successful..Sure, he's had some trouble finding clever jokes in the last couple of years, but he's outlived his original contract by many.

      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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    5. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Frankly, I'm surprised that the US government has money to spend bombing mountains in the middle of nowhere when they just recently resorted to cutting NASA budget once more. Perhaps this is all orchestrated by Raytheon and friends?

    6. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Uhm, not quite. Your mind is still living in the 90's, obviously. If you'd actually have bothered to take a look, our Russian friends are quite ahead of their time considering that their government was just overturned not more than 10 years ago. Let's see... They're deathly poor but somehow still manage to be a major partner involved with an international-class space project, develop stealth ships, develop helicopters that our US air force scientists use as blueprints for weapons design on their Apache and Commanche copters [Kamov 50 "Black Shark"] [vor.ru]. They somehow manage to secure funding from a whole lot of EU countries and Japan [itochu.co.jp] for an International Business Center, but yet, they're incompetent?

      See, that's precisely the type of racism and prejudice that's keeping us from being able to have normal social relations with them -- We judge them without even knowing what they're like. And that's quite disheartening.

    7. Re:If it's anything like MIR... by Hatechall · · Score: 1

      People are still bashing communism? Communism is ridiculously successful..ahh shit.

  19. We've had it for a while by Proud+Geek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course, our Navy won't talk about it. I've a friend in the Singapore navy, though, and he says that the American Navy is very arrogant, and likes to show off by steaming close by, but being completely invisible on radar.

    The article says this is the first ship of its kind in the world, but they note the distinguishing factor is that it is a stealth ship armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles.

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    1. Re:We've had it for a while by codeout · · Score: 1

      Like this one.. http://formen.ign.com/news/28531.html

    2. Re:We've had it for a while by Rone · · Score: 2
      I've a friend in the Singapore navy, though, and he says that the American Navy is very arrogant, and likes to show off by steaming close by, but being completely invisible on radar.

      Though I don't doubt that the U.S. Navy indulges itself with this kind of ego-stroking, I find it a little hard to believe that this goes on with full permission of the national security bean-counters.

      Though "security through obscurity" is anathema to your average /. reader, the philosophy does make sense for stealth craft and state-of-the-art weaponry*. When you parade your best toys in public, you're almost begging for foreign agents ("script-kiddies", if you will) to show up and start probing your gear for weaknesses and vulnerabilities (e.g. "the Commanche tail rotor causes this odd type of distortion in radar signals. By recalibrating our equipment to look for it, we can achieve missile lock with our SAM units").

      The benign form of intimidation mentioned by your friend in the Singapore Navy heads off a lot of aggression before it starts, but there's also something to be said for only letting your enemy begin to develop counter-measures when it's too late for them to possibly come up with something.

      * note that this assumes you've already probed the hell out of your gear with equipment equal-to-or-better-than that available to likely opponents.

    3. Re:We've had it for a while by mwalker · · Score: 2

      Yes, I believe our stealth ship has been around for a while. Sad that we don't have supersonic missiles on ours. I hope the Afghans don't get this new Russian ship and kick our ass.

    4. Re:We've had it for a while by On+Lawn · · Score: 2


      Of all secrecy, I was on a tour of the harbor when we passed the covered dock for this thing. Of course they told us exactly what it was on the tour.

    5. Re:We've had it for a while by Al+Gore · · Score: -1

      Foreign agents aren't "script kiddies." Script kiddies are those who use premade tools to "hack" without skill or knowledge. I'd rather equate Stinger-armed Afghans to script kiddies.

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    6. Re:We've had it for a while by dostick · · Score: 1

      OH come on. why Slashdot posters think that Slashdot=USA ? "We had it for a while" supposed to mean that we=USA.
      This whole internet=USA thing is annoying.

    7. Re:We've had it for a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, you'll have to excuse us, we did invent the thing. How dare Americans not immedately surrender all their advanced technology and know-how to the first ungrateful foreigners to demand it.

    8. Re:We've had it for a while by Performer+Guy · · Score: 2

      The prototype sailed into San Francisco bay, I'd hardly call that keeping it a secret.

    9. Re:We've had it for a while by Vegeta99 · · Score: 1

      Well considering than ARPANet=USA, i think you should deal with it, and be happy we let your asses on the net.

    10. Re:We've had it for a while by PD · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Did you realize that Afghanistan is landlocked? Not much worry that the Afghans will get one and threaten us. But if they do, I'm sure the Swiss Navy will take care of it for us.

    11. Re:We've had it for a while by dostick · · Score: 1

      now that's rude

    12. Re:We've had it for a while by babbage · · Score: 2
      Navy? Arrogant? Surely you're kidding... :)

      US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

      CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

      US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course.

      CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!

      US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA*, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!

      CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

      So what if the Navy denies that it's true, I still think it's hilarious... :)

  20. more info by SevenTowers · · Score: 5, Informative

    can be found here and here

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    1. Re:more info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      And on the weapons here:

      YAKHONT
      MEDVEDKA

  21. Coincidence? by MiTEG · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is really interesting- could it happen to be a coincidence that this is announced the same day that Bush announced the U.S. withdrawl from the missile treaty even though Putin said it was a bad idea? On a side note, there seems to be hardly anything about this on all the top news sites, but it was on the front page of my newspaper this morning. How could something so significant be ignored so quickly?

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    1. Re:Coincidence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      becaue the goverment told all the big news companys to shush it up so the us can build up a big weapons surplus with out the citizens knowing about it

    2. Re:Coincidence? by DerekLyons · · Score: 2
      How could something so significant be ignored so quickly?

      Because it's not really all that significant for two reasons:
      • Stealth features are a must for any new ship. The US has one under design as do the British and the French, the Swedes have actually got a small on in serial production.
      • About once a month for the past year or so the Russians have been issuing press releases that amount to 'Hey, look at us! we're really a real technological nation! Pay no attention to the starving guy behind the curtain...'.
      Stealth is useful, but it's not magic. By this vessels specs, it's not really a fleet combatant, but an escort for something larger, or more of a defensive vessel. It's only 1900 tons, very small for a warship, and does not really pack that large a punch despite how fearsome it's weapons specs sound. To be a real threat, they'd need several dozen, which they are unlikely to be able to get in the near term.
  22. Impressive? Only in it's role. by DerekLyons · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First guess, this is a small(er) combatant, not a major fleet unit. (Based on previous Russian naval philosophy.) It could either be the centerpiece of a frigate navy, or the building block of a real navy. Given Russia's ongoing economic problems, don't bet on it being much more than vaporware for a decade at least.

  23. I claim this post by dadaist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    for Dada.

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  24. Arms Race by rosssw · · Score: 0
    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."

    Great, that's what the world needs right now, another arms race. What with the US deciding to ignore the AMB treaty and now this, the whole world is going crazy again.

    America will be provoked into replying. This is bad. Russia barely has the infrastructure to support it's ailing nuclear warheads, and stop them firing off at the states, let alone getting locked into an arms race with the states again. They came of pretty badly last time, what makes them think it will be better this time?

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    1. Re:Arms Race by emn-slashdot · · Score: 1

      because now they have Mc Donalds... Ronald would so kick our ass...

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    2. Re:Arms Race by NirishChas · · Score: 1
      Bush and Putin clearly stated that neither was interested in starting another "arms race"

      Whether this was just for publicity/country external relations is another matter...

  25. Russia's Navy by Guybrush1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the submission:"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."

    Well I wouldn't exactly say that Russia isn't a navy super-power. They countinue to produce the best submarines in the world. Right now their first fourth generation (Borey class) strategic missile sub is being built, and they're making a new attack sub also.

    This Corvette is not just Russia's idea. Smaller ships with more powerful weapons are simply a better idea then putting personal and resources into a valuable, highly concentrated target. There are about 200 Corvettes in the world right now, and the production of them is a billion dollar a year industry. Russia uses these things for sub detection, coastal patrol, and escorting. They've got first rate anti-sub and ant-ship missiles, a helicopter, surface to air missiles, and a 55 million dollar price tag.

    1. Re:Russia's Navy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Submarine expert Christopher Drew:

      "At the moment, Russia doesn't pose much threat because it has little money to operate its subs, and most are just sitting in port to save on fuel, and there are periodic news stories of things like soviet sailors living on beached, rusting subs. the soviets have also curtailed construction of new subs greatly. the cruel irony for the soviets - and the best bit of luck for us - was that by the time they had finally learned how to build high-quality subs in the late 80s, they were running out of money."

    2. Re:Russia's Navy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, right. It's not like the Typhoon class subs are the best in the world right?
      And guess what, they don't rust! Becuase titanium oxidation is minimal, and those gigants are made of titanium.

      I guess Mr. Drew is blinded by nationalism like most so-call experts in the field.

    3. Re:Russia's Navy by alen · · Score: 2

      Like the corvettes are going to be of any use against an aicraft carrier 1000 miles away.

    4. Re:Russia's Navy by sirket · · Score: 1

      The Typhoon class is most certainly not made of titanium. The soviets only built a few submarines out of Titanium. Those were the Alfa class (for high speed and deep diving) and the Mike class, which was an experimental class. Titanium is not that common, even in Russia, to make it worth while to build an entire submarine out of. Besides, if Titanium was so common, why were the Akula class made from steel? The simple fact is, titanium is a bitch to work with, and far too expensive to use to build ships with.

      Finally, the true measure of a submarine is in how quiet it is, not in what its hull is made out of. The Typhoon has two rather loud reactors in it. The American Ohio class has a single convection current driven reactor. No pumps need to run which would generate noise. Friends in the Navy have told me that the best way to track an Ohio is to look for a lack of noise, because that is probably where the Ohio is. If an Ohio does not want to be found, it does not get found, and that is the best measure of a ballistic missile submarine. I won't bother explaining how much more accurate the Trident missiles are in comparison to their Soviet counterparts on the Typhoon. The Tridents have a longer range and are more accurate, also a nice feature in a ballistic missile submarine.

      -sirket

    5. Re:Russia's Navy by sirket · · Score: 1

      Correction: the pressure hull and torpedo room is titanium. The rest of the ship is steel.

      -sirket

    6. Re:Russia's Navy by masteroveride · · Score: 1

      They countinue to produce the best submarines in the world.

      I ask you if Russia has produced the best submarines in the world, how have they had as many accidents as they have? The Ruskies have been notorious for cutting corners in their saftey budget. Look where its gotten them, the Kursk was just recently lifted off the bottom of the ocean. Now I can't say that other navys are any better. The US has had their fare share of sub accidents too. But in today's world with the Russian Ruble sinking to new lows everyday, how can they manage to keep up such a high standard on both potence, silence, and saftey on a decreasing budget?

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  26. Slightly off topic but... by el'gwato · · Score: 1

    I remember a story hitting world news a lot of years ago (7-8) about the Russians privatising a major electricity company and a few weeks later as the military didn't pay their electricity bill 3 nuclear subs going China syndrome in a bay somewhere. The electricity company was stormed by a battalion of pissed of soldiers and the power restored diverting a massive nuclear meltdown!
    So all things considered the Russians did well to almost keep up with American technology.

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  27. If you're interested in the Russian Navy by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Informative

    check out the Bellona foundation's page : their Northern Fleet page is superbly detailed and they have tons of technical details about Russia's subs and surface ships. They even have some information about projects such as the Severodvinsk-class 4th-generation submarine class that got canned when the Berlin wall collapsed, or never got finished due to lack of funding.

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    1. Re:If you're interested in the Russian Navy by DerekLyons · · Score: 2

      Sadly Bellona rarely updates their main pages.. The Gephard (?), to which you refer, was finished a couple of months ago and now is on trials.

    2. Re:If you're interested in the Russian Navy by hughk · · Score: 2
      Bellona concentrates on the Russian Navy's handling of toxic wastes, particularly those that are radioactive. The page does not so much about their non-nuclear stuff.

      Amongst the other interesting stuff are some very large hovercraft (that I have seen in shipyards in St. Petersburg) and some ground-effect ships (mostly in/around the Black Sea).

      Janes is very good as a source of information, but they cost big bucks for a subscription.

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  28. I know some more... by emn-slashdot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "after a decade of budget cuts."

    This is what you call all of about $300US being designated to research and development for their military?

    "Technical details are very very scant on here - if you know more, please post below."

    I have some technical details...

    The thing is 3" long, made from a plastic, and powered my 12 caffeine-addicted mutant mice on a freaking wheel.

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    1. Re:I know some more... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Goes size-in-size with your 3" dick, you're unbeliever...

  29. WARNING by Genghis+Troll · · Score: -1

    Sick fucking rotten.com redirects above.

  30. Important information. by dadaist · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Goatse.cx Violent propaganda. Site not found.

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    MU!
  31. My Christmas List? by Veritan+Drelor · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    http://www.rusarm.ru/exprod.htm

    I've always wanted to know where I could pick up a battle tank. That and enough equipment to equip an infantry company or two. I wonder if they take VISA.....

    Per Ardua Ad Astra

    1. Re:My Christmas List? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Where's the "Add This Item To Shopping Cart" button?

      ...proceed to checkout..."Did you forget anything? Would you like to add a printer cable or extra ink cartriges to your order?"

    2. Re:My Christmas List? by linzeal · · Score: 1

      How is this offtopic? Eventually you'll be able to buy one of these "stealth" warships here. I mean the page he links to is like a supermarket for all sorts of nasty weapons and it is from the Russian Dept of Defense. Web savvy e-communists!!!

    3. Re:My Christmas List? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Per Ardua Ad Astra

      As in "Ad Astra Per Aspera"?

  32. conspiracy theory by Mutiny+Evolution · · Score: 1

    russia going to take over afghanistan? are we going to put those spiffy new cavation torpedos on board that sunk Kursk? that's some good stuff.

  33. I want one... by AnimeFreak · · Score: 1

    Too bad it won't fit under my christmas tree or in my backyard.

    1. Re:I want one... by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1

      If you strain hard enough you might get it to fit in your ass. Of course, then you'd look like everyone's favourite ass man...

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  34. Links don't work? Try this... by djrogers · · Score: 3, Informative

    They appear to be not allowing direct linkage to the information on the Yakhont and Medvenka missile systems. You can still get to the info though - from the homepage click on Export Products, then click on Navy. Halfway down are links to the Yakhont and Medvenka.

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  35. Snottia Desnottifies "Taco-Snot" Snotship by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.12 $

    Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?

    Whenever Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual orgies with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with the letter P in it, you're in trouble.
    So this time, he found you. Lucky you.
    CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. CmdrTaco's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants that only comes out in the presence of other men or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testes that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his, well, jizz. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means when he asks you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."
    Lastly, there is a practice he refers to as "Taco-snotting" and the more shocking "circle-snot."

    Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

    "Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the practice of sucking the penis of a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumored to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto his partner's (victim's) face and body. A long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."
    A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with each other's man juice. This can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully.
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

    I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."
    How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

    That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

    No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.
    Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

    ...Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

    ________________________________________
    READER COMMENTS

    1. Fucking hilarious too bad it didnt get a 5:Funny (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)

      this is good shit man

    2. Re:Taco-snotting@Home! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)

      Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...

    3. Re:Fuck Linux! Fuck him hard! (Score:-1)
      by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)

      Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...

      Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)

    4. Look (Score:-1)
      by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)

      I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
      http://www.naawp.org/

    5. Re:Congratulations! You have been WIPO'd!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)

      Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.

      I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.

    6. Re:Snot me baby, one more time! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)

      Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!

    7. Re:Hello, perdida!!! Won't you snot my face tonigh (Score:-1)
      by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)

      Shut up you asshole.

      I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.

    8. Go back to Russia. (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)

      You weiner trool!

    9. Re:The Taco-Snotting FAQ Rides Again!! (Updated so (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)

      try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work

    10. Re:Snotting another first!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)

      WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...

      CmdrTaco

    11. Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)

      A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
      However...

      To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.

      Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).

      I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.

      • Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)

        Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.

    12. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)

      oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

    13. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)

      for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!

    14. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)

      WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?

      -Trollaxor

    15. Jon-Katz docking (Score:-1)
      by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)

      You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin ...
      "Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...

    16. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1)
      by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)

      Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?

      Excellent FP, sir.

      This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig

    17. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)

      omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!

    18. GW, please.... (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)

      GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!

      But. ...if you can't find another topic, I'm gonna step over your dead mother's grave and kick your assuredly anesthetitized butt clear across the playground.

      Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?

      thanks

    19. Re:Help me Taco-Snotters!! (Score:-1)
      by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)

      I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.

    20. Re: What the hell is "taco snotting"? (Score:-1)
      by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)

      You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.

    21. YOU ARE WINNER (Score:1)
      by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)

      Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.

      --
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      Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!

    22. Re:On Taco-Snotting 1.9 (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)

      This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!

    23. Digusting and Shameful (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)

      Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!

      For more info check out this /. article

    24. IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)

      add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too

      • Re:IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)

        and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com

        other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!

    25. Re:CmdrTaco's filthy secret! (Score:-1)
      by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)

      Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
      --
      WIL WHEATON DOT NET

    26. WIPO speaks the truth (Score:-1)
      by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)

      Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:

      From: malda@slashdot.org
      To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
      Subject: were where you last friday? :(

      I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.

      --
      CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

      You finding Ling-Ling's head?

    27. Taco snotting is WRONG!!! (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)

      I do it wrong

      Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

      Massaging my nutsack she....

      WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

      "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

      "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

      I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...

    28. Rob Malda Dead at age 25! (Score:-1)
      by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)

      I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his queer antics and boring ass website, there's no denying his contributions to the homosesual cultural development, particularly in the areas of Taco snotting. Truly an American icon.

      I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.

    29. TACO-SNOTTING is really Donkey-Punching (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)

      No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. . :-)

    30. Re:the effect of knowlege laws... (Score:1)
      by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)

      The WIPO Troll
      Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.

    31. Re:Taco-Snotting (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)

      Oh, man that's just sick !

    32. HOW DO I GET AN ANONYMOUS PROXY? (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)

      TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place. ;P

    33. Re:Taco-Snottage!?!?!? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)

      what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured

    34. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1)
      by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)

      Where the fuck do I sign up?!

      - I throw rocks at retarded kids

      "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

    35. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)

      this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.

    36. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)

      OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.

    37. Re:Ban this! It's disgusting!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)

      dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
      duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.

    38. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)

      horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com

      Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!

    39. MOD THIS UP PLEASE!!! (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)

      +5, Arousing

      For more info check out this /. article

    40. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)

      WINNER>

    41. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)

      I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.

    42. Re:On Taco-Snotting (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)

      you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!

      WIPO trolls > linux

    ________________________________________

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    1. Re:Snottia Desnottifies "Taco-Snot" Snotship by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

      When Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda first imagined this "geek utopia" so many years ago -- a place where Linux users could come together and talk about schoolgirl anime, a place where nerds could argue about the letters G-N-U in peace, a place where misspelled words go uncorrected and changelogs are like manna from Heaven -- I'm sure this is exactly the kind of post he had in mind.

      What a wonderful feeling it must be, to realize one's dreams.

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    2. Re:Snottia Desnottifies "Taco-Snot" Snotship by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1

      Are you mocking me? Cool!

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      Crapflooder Associates
      Slashdot.org

    3. Re:Snottia Desnottifies "Taco-Snot" Snotship by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

      Nay, considering my earlier post about incest with an infant.

      Basically, I was pegging Slashdot as a complete failure, so upset about coming off as a group of censors that they allow heinous crapfloods that more or less lay waste to their site. Like the kind we post.

      And of course, they still come off as a group of censors anyway. Bwahaha!

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    4. Re:Snottia Desnottifies "Taco-Snot" Snotship by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
      Nay, considering my earlier post about incest with an infant.
      Stop looking in my bedroom windows, damn it!! That was consensual!!
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      Crapflooder Associates
      Slashdot.org

  36. Russian military by Joseph+Goebbels · · Score: 0

    Whether Europe becomes Bolshevist or whether we succeed in rescuing our continent and its people from this deadly threat will influence the future of many, perhaps all, future generations. This is the decisive historical significance of this war. The man who in the end frees our continent from its spiritual and military difficulties will be at the conclusion of the vast struggle, from the standpoint of history, the man of the war.

    That does not change the fact that his opponents have done and are doing everything in their power to hinder the historical mission of the man who stands above his times. They are using their material superiority in population and weapons in an attempt to bring his work to naught. But all this will only increase the honor history will give him and add immortal fame to his name. Once the foul mist of vile and despicable wartime polemics has lifted, he will suddenly appear as the great historical figure of this enormous international drama, both to the living and even more to the coming generations.

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  37. Some older info by FleaPlus · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here's a Jane's article with a little bit of info from earlier this year:

    http://www.janes.com/defence/naval_forces/news/jdw /jdw010417_3_n.shtml

    Here's the tidbit of interest: "The admiral also told reporters that the navy was launching the construction of the new Project 20380 corvettes, which will be used for coastal patrol, escort and antisubmarine warfare operations. The first of class is scheduled to be laid down at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St Petersburg later this year. The design of this 1,900t stealthy corvette was developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design bureau."

    Note that this article uses the term "stealthy corvette," which I suspect may have a different connotation from the 'stealth' technology we're generally used to.

  38. Chinese are gonna love this thing by flacco · · Score: 2

    Bon Voyage, destination: Taiwan

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    1. Re:Chinese are gonna love this thing by fliptout · · Score: 1

      Hmm.. gotta wonder how this ship would match up against the advanced Aegis system we would sell Taiwan.

      Just found this story, not sure about validity: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/1 6/123138.shtml

      In any case, if China were to attack Taiwan, the US is sure to step on behalf of Taiwan... Just as long as the attack doesn't happen in the next few weeks since I'm going there with my gf..

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    2. Re:Chinese are gonna love this thing by rwaite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I am an extremist. Just try and fucking shoot me, I'll rip your lungs out and play them like a bag pipe. Fucker.

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  39. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by logicnazi · · Score: 2

    Do you have any idea how much it costs to develop something like this? It isn't being done for drug interdiction!!

    Moreover, presumably all the ships in the US fleet are in constant communication therefore satelite imagery should be availible to all our ships...and in general to most of the first world nations. Those nations without satelite imagery availible probably don't have a navy large enough to really justify this sort of construction. Iraq had one of the larger armies in the world, border on ocean, and yet we didn't even hear a peep about their naval capabilities during gulf war.

    Finally I doubt it is really impervious to radar guided weaponry. Stealth only works so well, once they get close enough they should be able to pick it up...satelite images should accomplish this.

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  40. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Lord+of+Caustic+Soda · · Score: 1

    Er.... the thing is armed with supersonic anti-ship missles with a range of 300km..... slight overkill drug interdiction and coastal patrol no? Unless you consider blowing them out of the water before they are in your sea territory acceptable practice...

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  41. But your pretty good at killing your own people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    War ? isnt that where USA Kill its own people with their own state of the art laser guided missiles saving the enemy having to do it ?

    something tells me USA cant win wars either :p

  42. Alec Baldwin! by rackrent · · Score: 1

    This is just like The Hunt for Red October. So all we need is Alec Baldwin, and we'll just hope that Sean Connery is the Russian captain, and we have their ship and nothing to worry about here in the U.S.

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    --- There is a man in a smiling bag.
  43. Re:How's it compare to Sea Shadow? + links by C_nemo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sea shadow is a experimental ship where the goal was to see how "stealth" a ship could become (radar, sonar, wake and thermal), it's not in production.. there are more sealth ships in the world than Sea Shadow and this russian vessel. you've got frances la fayette(or something), swedens visby class they've also got a smaller stealth vessel, Norways skjold (bottom of page, sorry only in norwegian),50kn, wich the US is considering to buy.
    and to the one who talked about seeing the ship from space: good luck targeting those missiles, on a moving target, with images from space.
    Nemo
  44. Illegal Technology by heretic108 · · Score: 1

    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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    1. Re:Illegal Technology by terpia · · Score: 2

      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.

      This is mearly to assist the *blind* crewmen. (whether legitametely blind, OR blinded by vodka and glasnost)

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  45. The US had this planned long ago by evilviper · · Score: 1

    It was a short time after the creation of the F-117 Blackbird that the creator of that plane proposed a design of a submarine with stealth capabilities. It was turned down because of the loss of several knots of speed. Of course there are other methods of detection that stealh doesn't prevent, so it's fairly moot. Of course the designer didn't bother continuing on his design of a stealth aircraft carrier because he didn't expect much greater acceptance of a huge ship that looks like a new-age pyramid.

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    1. Re:The US had this planned long ago by linzeal · · Score: 1
      "like a new-age pyramid"

      When scientology gets a navy to fight Xenu I'll renounce pacifism.

    2. Re:The US had this planned long ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The F117 was the Nighthawk, I think. SR-71 was the Blackbird.

    3. Re:The US had this planned long ago by evilviper · · Score: 2

      Not that it's of substance, but you are quite right, I simply confused the two.

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  46. Using Illegal Technology by heretic108 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  47. Sounds like the Swedish "Visby" corvette... by ushac · · Score: 1

    This sounds like the Swedish Visby corvette, built by Kockums. They also make subs, most notably Australias Collins class diesel subs. Regards / ushac

  48. shoot it down the slut's fucking windpipe by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

    Please clear the spider egg sacks and the pus out of that hairy cunt.

    Last time I fucked you, afterbirth and maggots fell out on my dick.

    I think I see some termites munching on a petrified fetus skull in there.

    -> Yo slut, it's time for a DEEP DOUCHE. <-

    Yeah you should really pour some Drano down in there. Get that thick crust off the sides.

    It's bad to keep tampons in that long. Four months -- that's too much.

    Get in there and DOUCHE that vulva, honey.

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    The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
    1. Re:shoot it down the slut's fucking windpipe by Ralph+JewHater+Nader · · Score: -1

      I prefer to douche out the jewish race with gas.

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    2. Re:shoot it down the slut's fucking windpipe by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1

      There's no douche like a Jon Katz "juicy-douche!"

      --

      J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
      Crapflooder Associates
      Slashdot.org

  49. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1

    Well - blow up a couple of drugtrafficking ships, and people will start thinking twice, wouldn't you say?

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  50. In other news... by burtonator · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  51. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Peter+Dyck · · Score: 1
    Do you have any idea how much it costs to develop something like this? It isn't being done for drug interdiction!!

    Do you have any idea how much money is being spent on the misguided war on drugs?

    Something like this could very well be used for drug interdiction amongst other tasks.

  52. Deja-vu by Johnny00 · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a show on UPN with Hulk Hogan in some stealth speed boat with missles?

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    1. Re:Deja-vu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Comparing the Russian navy to the show on UPN with Hulk Hogan in a stealth speed boat is both apt and humorous.

      Keep up the good work.

  53. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by linca · · Score: 1

    Iraq bordered on Ocean... Oh Yeah. One of the major reasons it invaded Kuwait was it had only 10 miles of swampy coasts. Kuweit had much more.


    And, please, How does even a fly-every-minute detect object under clouds and fogs? In those conditions such a ship could be useful even against the US.

  54. From the story: "Microsoft Cruiser" by Futurepower(tm) · · Score: 2


    From the story:

    "Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said.

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    1. Re:From the story: "Microsoft Cruiser" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said.


      If I'm not mistaken, loss of an aircraft carrier is not an event covered by the product warranty -- all the EULAs clearly say something like "not for use in life support systems or where loss of life may be a consideration, blah, blah, blah". MS wins again.

  55. I like to Gargle with Semen! by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.12 $

    Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?

    Whenever Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual orgies with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with the letter P in it, you're in trouble.
    So this time, he found you. Lucky you.
    CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. CmdrTaco's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants that only comes out in the presence of other men or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testes that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his, well, jizz. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means when he asks you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."
    Lastly, there is a practice he refers to as "Taco-snotting" and the more shocking "circle-snot."

    Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

    "Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the practice of sucking the penis of a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumored to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto his partner's (victim's) face and body. A long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."
    A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with each other's man juice. This can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully.
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

    I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."
    How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

    That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

    No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.
    Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

    ...Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

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    READER COMMENTS

    1. Fucking hilarious too bad it didnt get a 5:Funny (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)

      this is good shit man

    2. Re:Taco-snotting@Home! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)

      Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...

    3. Re:Fuck Linux! Fuck him hard! (Score:-1)
      by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)

      Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...

      Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)

    4. Look (Score:-1)
      by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)

      I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
      http://www.naawp.org/

    5. Re:Congratulations! You have been WIPO'd!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)

      Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.

      I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.

    6. Re:Snot me baby, one more time! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)

      Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!

    7. Re:Hello, perdida!!! Won't you snot my face tonigh (Score:-1)
      by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)

      Shut up you asshole.

      I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.

    8. Go back to Russia. (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)

      You weiner trool!

    9. Re:The Taco-Snotting FAQ Rides Again!! (Updated so (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)

      try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work

    10. Re:Snotting another first!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)

      WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...

      CmdrTaco

    11. Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)

      A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
      However...

      To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.

      Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).

      I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.

      • Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)

        Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.

    12. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)

      oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

    13. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)

      for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!

    14. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)

      WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?

      -Trollaxor

    15. Jon-Katz docking (Score:-1)
      by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)

      You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin ...
      "Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...

    16. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1)
      by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)

      Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?

      Excellent FP, sir.

      This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig

    17. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)

      omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!

    18. GW, please.... (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)

      GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!

      But. ...if you can't find another topic, I'm gonna step over your dead mother's grave and kick your assuredly anesthetitized butt clear across the playground.

      Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?

      thanks

    19. Re:Help me Taco-Snotters!! (Score:-1)
      by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)

      I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.

    20. Re: What the hell is "taco snotting"? (Score:-1)
      by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)

      You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.

    21. YOU ARE WINNER (Score:1)
      by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)

      Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.

      --
      CNN declares War on Islam!
      Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!

    22. Re:On Taco-Snotting 1.9 (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)

      This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!

    23. Digusting and Shameful (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)

      Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!

      For more info check out this /. article

    24. IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)

      add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too

      • Re:IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)

        and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com

        other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!

    25. Re:CmdrTaco's filthy secret! (Score:-1)
      by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)

      Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
      --
      WIL WHEATON DOT NET

    26. WIPO speaks the truth (Score:-1)
      by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)

      Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:

      From: malda@slashdot.org
      To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
      Subject: were where you last friday? :(

      I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.

      --
      CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

      You finding Ling-Ling's head?

    27. Taco snotting is WRONG!!! (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)

      I do it wrong

      Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

      Massaging my nutsack she....

      WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

      "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

      "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

      I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...

    28. Rob Malda Dead at age 25! (Score:-1)
      by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)

      I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his queer antics and boring ass website, there's no denying his contributions to the homosesual cultural development, particularly in the areas of Taco snotting. Truly an American icon.

      I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.

    29. TACO-SNOTTING is really Donkey-Punching (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)

      No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. . :-)

    30. Re:the effect of knowlege laws... (Score:1)
      by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)

      The WIPO Troll
      Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.

    31. Re:Taco-Snotting (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)

      Oh, man that's just sick !

    32. HOW DO I GET AN ANONYMOUS PROXY? (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)

      TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place. ;P

    33. Re:Taco-Snottage!?!?!? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)

      what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured

    34. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1)
      by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)

      Where the fuck do I sign up?!

      - I throw rocks at retarded kids

      "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

    35. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)

      this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.

    36. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)

      OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.

    37. Re:Ban this! It's disgusting!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)

      dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
      duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.

    38. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)

      horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com

      Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!

    39. MOD THIS UP PLEASE!!! (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)

      +5, Arousing

      For more info check out this /. article

    40. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)

      WINNER>

    41. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)

      I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.

    42. Re:On Taco-Snotting (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)

      you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!

      WIPO trolls > linux

    ________________________________________

    $Id: tacosnotting.html,v 1.12 2001/12/02 20:07:02 wipo Exp $
    --

    J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
    Crapflooder Associates
    Slashdot.org

  56. After Afghanistan, it's France. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I would go for New Zealand."

    Nah. They speak English. After Afghanistan, it's France.

    1. Re:After Afghanistan, it's France. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah, that's fucking clever, let's try to take out a fucking nuclear power, good thinking, let's just go after Russia or the US while we're at it...

    2. Re:After Afghanistan, it's France. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Naw, you just walk to the side of their pre-targeted areas, avoiding their fixed-mount missiles. :-)

      Then just waltz in and the French'll fold.

  57. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Lord+of+Caustic+Soda · · Score: 1

    True, but there are more cost-efficient ways of doing that, like sending in a helicopter gunship or two..... or just use a sub to torpedo them.

    I assume most country would require that ships suspected of carrying drugs be seized and searched as opposed to being fired upon first, even Russia?

    --
    Kill'em! Kill'em all!
  58. The Experience of Hans and Else with a Strange Man by Joseph+Goebbels · · Score: -1, Troll

    Else begins to have plenty of sweets.

    Hans asks from where they are coming.

    "I have got them from a strange man. But don't tell mother! The man strictly forbade me to do so!"

    Hans is curious. They arrange to go together. The "man" wants them to go with him.

    Hans hesitates -- Hans thought:

    'What does the man want of us? Why should we go with him?'

    Suddenly a great fear comes over him.

    "You are a Jew!" he cries and seizing his sister, runs off as fast as his legs will carry him. At the corner of the street he meets a policeman. Quickly Hans tells his story. The policeman gets on his motor-bike and soon overtakes the strange man. He handcuffs him and takes him to prison.

    At home, subsequently, there is great rejoicing. The police praise Hans for being a brave lad. His mother gives him a large piece of chocolate while teaching him the following saying:

    "A devil goes through the land,
    The Jew he is, known to us all
    As murderer of the peoples and polluter of the races,
    The terror of children in every country!

    He wants to ruin the youth.
    He wants all peoples to die.
    Have nothing to do with a Jew
    Then you'll be happy and gay!"

    --
    Has it been 72 hours yet?
    jgoebbels@propaganda.gov.3r
  59. Pertinent Interview in today's (12/14) Pravda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    PRAVDA.Ru had an interview with a deputy of the State Duma, deputy chairman of the committee for security, Georgy Maytakov. Maytakov was the chief of the intelligence of one of the divisions of the nuclear submarines, which were based in the Soviet harbour. Being the chief of the Pacific fleet, he repeatedly conducted the military exercises, on submarines too.

    Question: Mr.Maytakov, what is your opinion about the events, which happened on board the Kursk? What do you think happened there?

    Answer: The governmental commission with Ilya Klebanov at the head has done a lot to find out the reason why it happened, but unfortunately, in spite of the fact that the submarine has now been raised, it is very hard to understand, what caused the tragedy. We will probably never know, why a torpedo exploded. When the tragedy happened, the governmental commission had three versions to consider.

    The first one is the collision with a foreign object. The second one - malfunction of a torpedo itself, the third one - the explosion of an old mine, from the times of the World War II. For the time being we know that the fuel blend of a 65-76 torpedo blew up, the governmental commission proved that. It should be mentioned here that there are various recorders inside a torpedo, and they allow to fix the information about the results of the practical shooting. Kerosene is used as fuel in those torpedoes and hydrogen peroxide is used as oxidizing agent. A powerful electric discharge is necessary to ignite the kerosene and oxidizing agent blend. Furthermore, the gaseous hydrogen and oxygen can be produced as a result of the hydrogen peroxide decomposition, and even a spark is enough for a blast. So, there are three conditions necessary for a fuel blend explosion: the destruction of a torpedo, the production of a flammable blend, high-pressure-air, or an electric discharge. These conditions must come altogether at one and the same time.

    The torpedo explosion was equal to the blast of 150 kilos of explosive, which pulled out the back lid of the torpedo-tube, wrecked the partition between the first and the second compartments and the people, who were inside the first and the second compartments, died. Another blast took place in 2.5 minutes, a stronger one. Twenty-two torpedoes, situated in the first compartment, exploded.

    Q: To what extent, do you think, the submariners of the Kursk were trained? How modern was the Kursk?

    A: It was one of the most up-to-date submarines. The submariners are trained very carefully before they go to the sea. The sub was on the first line, which means cleared for action on the highest level. All the personnel of the sub undergo a complex of exercises, courses and so on in order to be able to survive. I can give you an example. When we studied at the military school, we had a diving course. When we served at the military vessels or submarines, we also had the diving courses. We were training and exercising all the time, to be able to seal or close up the holes, were taught how to struggle with fire and water - two major reasons, which can make a vessel or a sub sink.

    Q: There is a popular Russian movie called Solitary Sailing, in which they show the Russian military exercises and the CIA was always trying to watch them. Is the situation different now? Has America become our friend?

    A: That is an interesting question - if America has become our friend. There are no friends in big politics. There can be either allies or no allies. Any state is trying to guarantee its own interests. By the way, the movie that you mentioned was to the point. I remember those times: we had an objective not to allow any American aircraft cruiser get closer to a Russian vessel. Nowadays the situation is different. The American submarines, Norways Germanys reconnaissance vessels are near our shores. There are American submarines both in the area of the Barents Sea and in the Far East too.

    Q: Do you think there could be an American submarine near the Kursk?

    A: The governmental commission has made its conclusions about he possible versions: a collision, mines, torpedo malfunction. But this malfunction may be caused by different reasons. It is not ruled out that there could be a sub there, taking into consideration the fact that there was some object moving very fast, away from the area of the military exercises. I think there could be such a possibility.

    Q: What is your opinion about Putin's visit to the relatives of the killed submariners?

    A: The fact that he went there to meet the relatives is not presidents business, even if such a horrible catastrophe happened. There are other people to do that. Over 100 people died, but if 100 died in Chechnya - should the president go there too? This is the liability or responsibility of the adequate structures, of the commander-in-chief, of the defense minister. I can understand the president from the human point of view, but it was not reasonable for him to go there as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. This resulted in very serious spending. According to the law about the status of a military man, there should be the adequate insurance allowances paid, depending on the status of a military man. We saw, how the president was attacked on, how intense the conversation with the women was, but all those military men and their relatives received a very serious compensation, the insurance for the death of their relatives.

    Q: There is a legend that the sea does not like it, when the people raise the drowned sailors. Do you think it is normal that they have retrieved the submarine and buried the submariners?

    A: I said that in the very beginning that it was not good to raise the people from the bottom of the sea. The sea became their cemetery and they had to stay there, like it happens traditionally. But there were different circumstances in this case. The president said they would retrieve the bodies and he kept his promise. There was a need to raise the sub itself in order to try to find out the reasons of the explosion.

    Q: Do you think it is possible to raise the first compartment?

    A: I think it is not real to raise the first compartment, sine there is no such compartment actually, but only the fragments of it. As we could see, the second compartment was destroyed almost completely too. I guess this story will remain a secret even for the next generation and on. There were a lot of such examples in the past. The sea does not unveil its secrets.

    Q: To what extent are the submarines relevant from the strategic point of view?

    A: The submarines have always been used for the army purposes. The difference is that they could be moved, in contrast to the land instalments, which could not be used. We moved our missile subs and so did the Americans. Talking about the strategic issue, like you said, the missile submarines are a requisite link of the missile and nuclear triad, the most secret link. You can see and down a plane, but you can never see a submarine. This triad consists of the land, air and underwater constituents.

    Q: How good is the equipment at our vessels, bases, to what extent is our authorities attentive to it?

    A: Not only the fleet, but the armed forces have fallen into decay over the recent decade due to the absence of the funding. The defense capacity has decreased considerably. This is the general state of the country. It does not allow us to maintain the forces, which were established during the Soviet times. We used to solve global tasks in the ocean, but now we have the goals, which should be solved in the littoral zone.

    Q: The newspaper Version wrote that several dishonest officials of St.Petersburg set up a joint venture to sell the ships abroad. What can you say on the score?

    A: I do not know if there was a joint venture there. One of the largest vessels - the Minsk and the Novorossiysk were really sold, the media wrote about it, and as far as I remember, those vessels were sent to China. But there was also the information, they were used as entertainment complexes, others say, they were being prepared for the army purposes and would soon travel. If talking about the Pacific fleet - the fleet that I know very well, I can say that there is quite a number of tugboats, which were sold to other countries.

    Q: Do you think the president will be able to organize the Pacific fleet and other Russian fleets under the influence of the West, because of the improvement of the relations with the States? We know, there is a pressure exerted on our president.

    A: It is precisely registered in the American strategy of the national security that America will do everything not to let any other power, with the exception for the USA, gain control over the resources, the USSR had. America will always keep to its interests - it is its first priority.

    Q: So why does Russia have the understated interests?

    A: It is about the economic situation in the country: we are unable to maintain the forces to guarantee our security. But on the other hand, the Soviet armed forces were based on the experience of the previous war. The civil war was over, the world war was coming, but the armed forces were organized on the ground of the civil war experience. This is the way our country is.

    Q: So the army is totally not ready for the changes in the society?

    A: This is one of the most serious issues. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, the former commander-in-chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States, wrote that the country had collapsed, there was no Soviet Union, but there was the Soviet army left. He allowed to carry out the economic activity in the army at that time, during the period 1991 - 1994. Everything that could be of interest to the people - the uniform, military hardware - everything was sold. There is no place for the economic activity in the army, it should only deal with the military issues and take part in the arrangements, as provided and prescribed by the law.

    Georgy Maytakov was interviewed by Ilya Tarasov

    -- Anal sex: it's the wave of the future.

    1. Re:Pertinent Interview in today's (12/14) Pravda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am sorry if your browser displays ugly squares in this comment. It previewed fine in IE, but in Mozilla it is ugly.

  60. stick it in yakhont yawhore! by blowhole · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ya khont" is the most offensive sounding missile I've ever heard of.

    --
    "Ask me about Loom"
    1. Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's a missile for cryin out loud. What would you have them call it? "Basket of puppies"?

    2. Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by Spunk · · Score: 1

      That seems to be the trend nowadays.

    3. Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by foxcub · · Score: 1

      Yakhont is an old Russian name for certain gems (ruby and saphire in particular). It's actually a very pretty name if Russian is your native language...

    4. Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by attackiko · · Score: 1

      Just for your information: Medvedka means lady bear.. (I mean female bear) in many Slavic languages not just Russian.

  61. /. - the best place to find stale news. by jdoeii · · Score: 1

    This news was released back in March 2001 in Russian:

    http://www.mfit.ru/defensive/obzor/ob04-04-01-1. ht ml
    http://www.infoport.ru/main_popup.php?ID=312893

    About mid March 2001 the project was presented at arms expo in Abu Dhabi.

    News is not like brandy. It does not get better when aged for 9 months.

  62. Truth about CHERNOBYL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CHERNOBYL WAS THE FIRST NATO LIMITED NUCLEAR STRIKE. IT WAS DESIGNED TO SPEED UP SOVIET'S BREAKDOWN.

    Besides the Japan, there is only one case where victims of nuclear holocaust could be clearly counted. - CHERNOBYL (Eastern Europe).

    CIA chose the place and time to strike quite well: the place - CHERNOBYL heart of Slavic Nations, the time - eve of brake-up of Soviet Union. Here, I have to congratulate the NWO_USA genocidal maniacs!

    There was significant money spent to pay for the engineering and then covering up (CNN spin masters) of so-called "Chernobyl Accident". It was supposed to be repeated in few other places in Russia, aber Russians (the KGB at that time) sent a communique to US government, which read:

    we know who was behind it, enough, if you do it again all our nukes will be "disposed of" on your stinking country, we do not care any more. You decide!

    Needles to say pentagon got shitless scared.

    You have to understand this kind of crimes against humanity can not be talk about or prosecuted openly, it is simply too big. If Russians protested openly at UN, then they would've had to nuke USA.

    Simply... the crime was too big to talk about it openly.

    1. Re:Truth about CHERNOBYL by Anonymous+Coed · · Score: 1

      Hooo hoo hoo, boy, that's an amazing story there. Quite remarkable. Because we all know that the Chernobyl reactors were the height of Ukranian safety engineering, indeed it was virtually impossible for anything to ever go wrong at that plant. Therefore, it must have been the CIA. Or possible the Mossad. With the assitance of the Kerryton, Ohio Kiwanis Club. Either way, it's crystal clear that Walt Disney and his evil henchmen were definitely behind it. It had nothing to do with Homerski Simpsonski, Soviet Safety Commisar at Ukranian Nuclear Works.

  63. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1

    I think your sig says it all - shoot first, then check for a big cloud of white dust.

    --
    We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
  64. America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Once more the USA has voted against a neutral, bipartisan proposal by the UN to introduce international observers in Gaza.

    The message: the only peace the USA wants in the Middle East involves a complete subjugation and/or annihilation of Palestinians under the iron fist rule of Israel.

    This is exactly the kind of politics that resulted in the event of 11th September. No matter how much your media would like you to believe, it is not envy or blind irrational hate that caused the terrorist strike. Envious people don't crash planes into buildings and the hate is a perfectly rational result from the one-sided pro-Israel policy.

    1. Re:America asks for more terrorism by ScottKin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, it would take an "Anonymous COWARD" to post that. Interestingly, in the infamous "smoking gun" video of Bin-Moron, no mention was made of Palestinians or "The Palestinian Issue". Now, Arafat's lack of REAL action has caused Israel to deem him a "non-effective" person in relation to Palestinians, and Arafat has actually lost control of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority to the same group-think that brought Islamic Extremists/Fanatics/Zealots/Nut-cases to try to take on the World's Largest, most poweful Nation. Sadly, the majority of the brain-washed zealots who hijacked those 4 planes never knew they would DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH because they were not told this was to be a SUICIDE MISSION!!!

      On Jerusalem: Jerusalem was build several THOUSAND years ago by JEWS, not Arabs. It is THEIR city. It is ISRAEL's city, not the vagabond, bedhouin Arabs who squatted on it after the blood-lust of the Ottoman Empire killed the last of the Jewish inhabitants. The Palestinians can go settle somewher else, like Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the UAE....pick one. The only true "infidels" are the Palestinians who call for Israel's destruction.

      The USA is Pro-Israeli - if you don't like it, stay/get the hell out of the United States of America!!!!

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    2. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      group-think that brought Islamic Extremists/Fanatics/Zealots/Nut-cases

      Ah, and just where does this "group think" come from? It comes from being oppressed, tortured and killed by Israel with weapons and other hardware supplied by the America for decades.

      hijacked those 4 planes never knew they would DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH because they were not told this was to be a SUICIDE MISSION!!!

      If you'd follow other medias than the American spinmeister corporations you'd know that these people know they were on a "martyrdom mission". That is, they knew they were going to die. What they didn't know before boarding the blane was exactly when and how.

      So, try watching BBC or other foreign newsservices once in a while and you'll stay better informed.

      squatted on it after the blood-lust of the Ottoman Empire killed the last of the Jewish inhabitants

      Oh that's plain stupid.

      "We lived here thousands of years ago but then went away for a measly century or two. And what you know, now you've moved in! You should have known that we'll come back after a couple of hundreds of years and stayed away, so we're going to throw you out and kill you if you resist."

      Besides I don't remember you respecting the rights of the Native Americans either. They were there way before you moved in.

    3. Re:America asks for more terrorism by SonofRage · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      On Jerusalem: Jerusalem was build several THOUSAND years ago by JEWS, not Arabs. It is THEIR city.

      I guess you're ready to pack your bags and give the US back to the Native Americans then.

    4. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Robber+Baron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Yes, it would take an "Anonymous COWARD" to post that.

      Really??? Well I'm not afraid to say un-anonymously that I hate Zionist terrorist thugs and think that Sharon should be twitching on the end of a rope for all the people he's ordered killed.

      The bin Laden video? Could be real, could be fake. Big deal. We've also got lots of video implicating Bush in the deaths of innocents, and lots more implicating zionist terrorists in the deaths of innocents as well (try as they might, the IDF couldn't shoot all the journalists).

      Jerusalem? Yeah Jews built it but later they were kicked out. And if how they are behaving now is any indication, they probably deserved it. Get over it.

      A more balanced view of the Palestine situation can be found here

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    5. Re:America asks for more terrorism by sbrown123 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Two peoples, one land. Both have reasons for it being their land. Who is the rightful owner? Both. But neither are really willing to share. The US should not take sides and should come out as a neutral party trying to help both sides get along. Instead, they continually side with the Isrealis.

      Sharon and Arafat are both terrible leaders. What is really needed is two leaders commited to stopping the violence THEIR people provoke rather than take retalitory action against the other.

      Martin Luther King was an example of a man who could bring two people together. This type of man does not exist in Isreal/Palestine as the land is too full of bigots and zealots. Where is the peace bringer?

      The Hamas is nothing but a hate group. The Isreali and Palestinian Authority leadership might as well be the KKK. Why is there no single government that embodies both Palestinians and Isrealis? Why two governments? Because both camps are full of hate mongers and are not willing to work together. Thats the truth.

      You want to help? Send a letter to your congressperson and ask for them to try to push the US in a neutral ground in this matter and to not to take sides. Sharon is always quick to say "We dont need the U.S.". Well good, we dont need him. Nor do we need Arafat for that matter. They both suck.

    6. Re:America asks for more terrorism by labradore · · Score: 2
      First of all it is painfully obvious that you are deeply partisan to the Jewish/Israeli side of the conflict. Why, then, should we believe what you have said as objective truth?

      Secondly, if your reasoning were to be applied to, for instance, the United States then all Anglos, Africans, Asians and their decendants should be exiled from North America because it belongs to the Native Americans who were here "several THOUSAND years ago" and who built great nations that were destroyed by European immigrants and settlers only a few hundred years ago. Does this illustrate the wrong-headedness of your and many other Jewish/Israeli defenses against their eviction of the Palestinians over that past several decades.

      In the past all over the world there were very few checks on the powerful who wished to sieze more power or more land and influence. The peoples of the world were connected by fewer and weaker economic and social bonds. Cultural, geographic and technologoical diferences betwwen peoples allowed dominance of some nations or empires over others and the net destabilization of the invasion was low.

      Today the world's cultures, nations and economies are much more interconnected and dependant upon eachother. Destabilization in one sphere has greater a destabilizing effect on the rest of the world than in times past. Additionally, liberal ideas and values have spread across the world. Subversion and subjugation of one people by another is no longer socially acceptable.

      The Jewish reentrance to Palestine has come at a time when there is no longer popular acceptance of the kinds of suppression that the Jewish/Israeli people exert over the less powerful Palestinians. Popular sentiment against Israeli policy and condemning Israel's actions against the Palestinians was expressed clearly by the majority in the recent world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa.

      The horrible and toughtless violence perpetrated by both sides in the Israeli conflict is damnable. It is true that the U.S. policy strongly supports Israel. However, this policy is clearly for net political and military/economic advantage. In an interconnected world, net advantages and disadvantages are more important than specific political issues. The U.S. must hold good standing in Israeli and Saudi relations in order to maintain military safeguards for the American economic assets in the Middle East region. Also, The historical U.S. support for Israel carries significance in that policy changes must not be made too quickly in order to maintain the credibility of the U.S. leaders, the policy that they execute and the regional stablity. To a lesser extent the democratic system in Israel must be supported as the expansion of democratic rule is a long term U.S. policy goal. The cultural differences between Israel and the U.S. are smaller than those between the U.S. leaders and the Arab and Musolem people. These factors are primary in the relationship with Israel and they weigh heavier than the plight of the Palestinian people. The Jewish Israeli's have taken advantage of this skillfully and caused great harm.

      Personally, I find it highly embarrasing to live in a nation that supports the extermination of the Palestinian people. The onus for negotiating peace and combined prosperity in Israel lies with the Israel which has far greater wealth, power and political influence than the people they seem to blindly subjugate.

      At this point the Israelis are fighting against a starving, and desperate enemy. Suicide bombing that is the mainstay of the Palestinian offensive is the extreme of desperation and implies a lack of rational thought. The Palestinian people have demonstrated that they are disorganized and without effective leadership. Therefore it must be Isreal's task to find a peaceful and equitable resolution. Assuredly, there will be no outcome but further terror and the eventual annihilation of the Palestinians without thoughtful peacemaking leadership on the part of the Isrealis.

    7. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bin Ladin doesn't give two shits about what goes on in Israel. It's a fucking excuse for him to carry out his addle-pated hate game against the USA, which he hates because it refuses to live in a backwards fifth-century-AD style like Saudi Arabia.

    8. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I tend to call "Israel", "occupied Palistine" i find it much more accurate. Israel would not even exist if the brit's and american's could resist waving their dicks around and imposing their will on the rest of the world like they owned it or something.. i can certanly see from the recent usa veto in the united nations that they still haven't lerned their lesson and will probbly require several more "9-11's" i find this most unfortunate because most of the american's ive met are usually good people when 1 on 1, it seem though when you get them in packs they can help but to act like a$$ H0les...

    9. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In 1947-48 the Jews accepted sharing the land. The Arabs refused! Since then the Arabs remaining in Israel certainly have had more rights than Jews living in Arab countries. Indeed the Arab citizens in Israel have had more rights than the Arabs living in Arab countries. So what happened to the idea of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza between 1948 and 1967...Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled the Gaza strip. Why didn't they allow the creation of a Palestian State? They lost these territories in 1967 in their attempt to "drive the Jews into the sea." Just over a year ago at Camp David, Israel offered to give the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestians along with control over Arab sections of Jerusalem. Once again the Palestinians refused not only this, but also to continue peace talks. Instead they resorted to violence against civilian men, women and children
      as the primary targets of their attacks. Why? Because Sharon visited a site in Jerusalem holy to both Moslems and Jews? Sharon had as much right to be there as any Moslem or Jew or Christian or any one else. Had the Palestinians instead returned to the negotiating table, we wounldn't have the mess in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. Perhaps someday, a Palestinian leadership will emerge that will be willing to live side by side with Israel in peace. Two states, Israel and Palestine, living in peace side by side. This is the only viable solution. Unfortunately only one side, Israel, has accepted this notion.

      As far as 911 is concerned, Bin Laden hates Christians as much as he hates Jews. He wants all Christian influence out of the Middle East. He also sees the conflict between Islam and Chritianity as a competition to be the world's dominant religion and culture. He's fighting what he views as the Christian crusaders. This has little to nothing to do with Israel or the Jews.

    10. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      Let's not forget that there is only one democracy in that entire region! Israel.

    11. Re:America asks for more terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah...as long as you are Israeli. If you are Palestinian living in Israel, you go unrepresented.

      Israel has been a noble experiment on the part of the UN, but it is a failure. The characterization of Israeli "troops" as terrorists is not far off. The Arab body count steadily rises. Three here, four there. A police station bombed by an F16. Only evokes passing interest in the American press. But, let some Hamas wacko kill some Israelis and Sharon is ready to nuke and the US bends over apologizing for him.

      Just the opinion of one white man who is not allowed to be critical of Israel without being branded a racist.

      Truthfully, the Palestinians and Israelis deserve each other. If they can't find a way to forgive one another and find it necessary to propogate hatred from generation to generation, then they deserve to have their children shot dead in the street. Idiots.

  65. first crapflood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  66. Swedish stealth craft by trynis · · Score: 1

    Sweden has a stealth ship as well. Here and here are some articles with a lot of technical details. This article has a few not-rendered pictures of it, and this article has even more info.

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  67. Search And Rescue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So if they lose contact with the ship, let`s say in an emergency, how do they expect to locate it quickly if it has hardly any radar signature ?

  68. specs... (kinda) by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

    corvette project 20380
    water displacement 1900 tonnes
    price 1.6 mlrd roubles
    export version called project 20382
    first one will be build in st petersburg
    pourpose: patrolling of coastal waters, escort and antisubmarine operations

    sorry for my bad english

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  69. Sweden has a stealth warship as well.... by KM1 · · Score: 1

    The swedish navy also has a steralth ship. This link shows some data for the ship. the ship actually began trials earlier than stated in the linked page. Here are some drawing of the ship as well cruising, using airdefence missiles
    So this kind of technology will probably be seen in many navies in the future. I can tell you that watching a ship this size come at you at 35 knots while your radar shows nothing is rather unnerving.

    1. Re:Sweden has a stealth warship as well.... by NirishChas · · Score: 1
      Its only natural for some countries to protect their technological advances untill the time is right to let the world know.

      There too many reasons for this to be detailed, but I wouldnt bet against Russia, nor any other major power - past or present, having had major ideas such as this or indeed for other advances.

  70. Damn right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Und Central-Asia belongs to zee Germans! It iz vere zee Aryans com from! Ve should give zee Germans vat iz rightfully theirs!

  71. Stealth ships, nothing new by Zarathustra.fi · · Score: 0
    These suckers have been sailing the seas for quite some time now. For example, Sweden has pretty impressive stealth ships and subs. For example their newest submarines, if noticed, usually looks like a small whale to the observer. It's sound and sonar images are alike to those of a whale.

    Anyway, stealthiness in ships has been on the table from the same era that first stealth aircraft were designed. The main principles are:

    • less radar reflections with smart surface patterns and coating materials,
    • less noise with new propulsion systems and quieter engines, insulation
    • less exhaust material that can be picked with sensitive instruments, such as IR sensors


    My opinion is, that the Russia cannot regain it's position as a naval superpower. Sure, it has a navy with great many ships, but they are _old_. From around 1970-1980 cold war era. They are noisy, big, ugly, although they have a huge arsenal and quite impressive performance numbers. Updating such a navy to modern standards needs money - and that's what Russia doesn't have at the moment.

    I think we're going to see more similiar military "declassifications" from Russia in the near future, as the USA resigned from the ballistic missile protection pact.
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  72. $ekrit Kon$piracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Department of The Navy
    Headquarters United States Marine Corps
    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20380-0001
  73. Calculators Divide By Zero? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did you notice the claim DiGiorgio makes, "Your $2.95 calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of instructions." I challenge any of you to try this experiment and if it works as he claims then throw that worthless piece of **** in the same place as you put that story.

  74. So... by thebabelfish · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when can I buy one to cruise around my local lake in? Those supersonic missles sound nice...

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  75. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by nocent · · Score: 2
    slightly off-topic but an interesting observation about the ABM treaty. The US just pulled out of the ABM treaty to very little fanfare. Coincidentally, on the same day, the bin Laden video was released and all day long, cable tv channels played the bin laden video and for the most part ignored the potentially much more disastrous consequences of pulling out of the treaty.

    Whatever you think about the treaty, you have to give the Bush administration credit for their ability to manipulate the media and divert attention away from the important issues.

    1. Re:Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by taxman_10m · · Score: 1

      The media aren't very friendly to the Bush administration. It is laughable to think that he should hand them a news story. Our withdrawing from the ABM treaty wasn't much of a secret, we've said we'd do it for quite a while, it was only a question of when we would do so formally.

    2. Re:Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by nocent · · Score: 1
      The media aren't very friendly to the Bush administration.

      actually, since Sept 11, pretty much everyone, including the media and even democrats have stood behind and supported the president. it's hard to find a dissenting voice these days for anything the president does. to do so would be political suicide in this current atmosphere where criticism of any sort is often interpreted as "unpatriotic".

      It is laughable to think that he should hand them a news story. Our withdrawing from the ABM treaty wasn't much of a secret, we've said we'd do it for quite a while, it was only a question of when we would do so formally.

      I never said it was a secret. Merely observing that the day the US pulled out of the ABM treaty was coincidentally also the day that the the bin laden tape was released, an event bound to generate tremendous media attention and tie up TV reports with their non-stop broadcasting and analysis of the contents of the tape. Make of it what you will. Of course, I also note that your homepage is collegegop.com

  76. How to find an invisible ship by Mosaic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The first thing is that when the ship is travelling it will leave a wake behind it. Also I believe that the wake will disturb the organisms in the ocean that emit light. Getting a satellite to find the wake wouldn't be too hard.

    Also a moving ship will have a thermal signature from the exhausting of heat/smoke through the smoke stack. Again visible on satellites. But could be reduced by cooling the exhaust.

    To make the ship invisible visually there's always the old dazzle paint jobs from WWII (look at an old photo of a warship from that era) that works by disrupting the visual signature of the ship.

    I believe that also the lastest method is to "fog" the air around the ship by spraying seawater into a fine mist.

    Any other ideas?

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    1. Re:How to find an invisible ship by AtomicBomb · · Score: 1

      AKAIK, spraying seawater mist is a way to reduce the IR sig...

      If a ship wants to hide its hull from the eye of a submarine, it may be a good idea to borrow that from the subs. In order to reduce the acoustic sig, the propellers can be replaced by water jets. It is surely quiter, as a side effect, it may also reduce the wake...

  77. So does finnish navy by 10Ghz · · Score: 1

    The Hamina-class missile-boat:

    http://www.mil.fi/merivoimat/toim_kalusto_5.html

    The tactic is to hide these ships in the vast archipegalo, and wait for the enemy to come close. Once the enemy is within range, they fire their missiles, and leave at top speed (hit 'n run)

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  78. Norwegian Navy is getting stealthy boats by neonstz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check here for more info (in norwegian only, sorry) on the Skjold-class MTBs. I'm not sure when they will be ready though. The boats are propelled by water jets which means they can turn really really fast. The swedish navy is also getting stealthy boats, and they got water jets too.

    1. Re:Norwegian Navy is getting stealthy boats by markom · · Score: 1

      If you are referring to the Skjoldklassen from that link, that one works just fine ;-).

      It was on display for about a week in Reykjavik harbor in Icelad, few months ago.

      Very nice looking boat, indeed. I would presume around 1000-1200 tonns displacement, but I'm no expert o:-).

      Marko.

  79. It's been built already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The first unit of the KNM Skjold class of stealth gunship is already beeen built and is actually here in the US on a display tour.

  80. How apropos by Digitalia · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bush uplls out of the ABM treaty with Russia & Co. and now they declassify a project to send the point that they haven't been sitting idly for the last few years. This craft is hardly anything to worry about. As others have said, its uses are limited and it is still detectable by some craft. But it is a sign that the Russian R&D is still going strong. And that's even more scary than anything else, because Russian military tech becomes global tech quicker than nothing. Russia is not likely to just ignore Bush's slap, but they wouldn't dare actually increasing their nuclear armaments so they're probably going to begin a more conventional arms race. And since China has the money, they'll be the sole beneficiaries from this race.

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  81. The West ALREADY have such ships! by MtViewGuy · · Score: 2

    Rick,

    Actually, Western navies have been developing low-observable ships since the late 1980's.

    For example, the current destroyers and the new DD-21 class destroyers for the US Navy sport a lot of features that were pioneered by Lockheed's Sea Shadow project, which was designed to drastically reduce the radar signature of surface ships. And the British are introducing new destroyers based on this research, too.

    Note that these new ships' superstructures look like a bunch of pyramids. This drastically reduces the radar cross-section of the ship, and the addition of IR shielding on the engine exhaust stack reduces the observability of these new ships even further.

  82. Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by StandardDeviant · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took a little Russian in college (or rather, I took 13 credit hours worth and remember little ;^) ). "Medved" (prounounced a little more lik Myedvyed) is "bear", so "medvedka" is a diminutive form, i.e. a cute nickname* like "cute little bear". Check out this nifty online dictionary for things like this (type in "medved", hit "transliterate input", and away you go (if your machine and browser can handle cyrillic anyway).

    *similarly "vod" is water, so "vodka" is "little water that we all know and love" ;^) [not to single out the Russians as heavy drinkers, iirc whiskey (the english mangling of the original gaelic anyway) meant "water of life"]

    1. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by Fesh · · Score: 2

      [not to single out the Russians as heavy drinkers, iirc whiskey (the english mangling of the original gaelic anyway) meant "water of life"]

      Getting off on an offtopic tangent here, but I once read a Scientific American article on the history of alcohol consumption. Turns out that the Gaelic translation is closer to the mark than you'd think, and not as a play on the joys of inebriation.

      See, before we had nifty things like water treatment and chlorination, drinkng plain water was pretty risky. Cholera, for example, was a severe problem in many urban areas in the last few centuries. So how does one get rehydrated without killing themselves? The answer, my friends, is booze. The alcohol kills whatever nasty microorganisms might be there, so going on a bender would have been much healthier then than we would consider it today. ('Course, to be fair, they didn't know microorganisms caused disease, but I can imagine common wisdom saying "Ah, a nip of scotch never killed anyone...")

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    2. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by foxcub · · Score: 1

      Actually, you are not correct. Medved is Russian name for bear (there you are correct), but cute little bear (bear-cub) would be "medvezhonok". Medvedka is actually a certain kind of insect (I think from the same family as a cricket, but don't quote me on that) that destroys vegetables (apparently it's a big pain for agriculture).

      P.S. I'm a native Russian speaker.

    3. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2

      Totally off topic, but it is quite true that wine, whiskey and other well-known fermented or fruit beverages were the only way to avoid drinking the very polluted water in most parts of the world (should we give africa grape-vines instead?).

      Only in the last century, to my knowledge, have we even known how to preserve fruit juice without letting it ferment (thanks Welch's).

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    4. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by mlong · · Score: 1
      See, before we had nifty things like water treatment and chlorination, drinkng plain water was pretty risky. Cholera, for example, was a severe problem in many urban areas in the last few centuries. So how does one get rehydrated without killing themselves? The answer, my friends, is booze. The alcohol kills whatever nasty microorganisms might be there, so going on a bender would have been much healthier then than we would consider it today. ('Course, to be fair, they didn't know microorganisms caused disease, but I can imagine common wisdom saying "Ah, a nip of scotch never killed anyone...")

      Seeing as how alcohol is a diuretic they would have to drink a very small amount

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    5. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by inburito · · Score: 2

      Uh.. drinking strong alcoholic drinks is a sure way to dehydrate your body. Even wine and beer dehydrate. Ever gone to bed drunk? How do you feel like when you wake up? Damn thirsty..

      Maybe a moderate alcohol consumption with risky water etc, but not alcohol by itself.. might as well be drinking salt water. Go ask a health specialist if you don't believe me..

    6. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh.. drinking strong alcoholic drinks is a sure way to dehydrate your body. Even wine and beer dehydrate. Ever gone to bed drunk? How do you feel like when you wake up? Damn thirsty..


      Never mind waking up. I seem to remember some extreme dehydration (exhydration?) which started aboout halfway through the third beer.

    7. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by Order · · Score: 1

      Actually you are wrong. Medvedka is an insect, kinda like a big cockroach that digs tunnels underground.

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    8. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by blair1q · · Score: 2

      No, canning, of fruit, even, was invented nearly 200 years ago.

      Pasteurization, the same basic thing with lower temperatures, was "invented" 150 years ago.

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    9. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2

      It doesn't prevent fermentation, which is the point I made about Welch's.

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    10. Re:Medvedka Re:stick it in yakhont yawhore! by blair1q · · Score: 2

      Yes it does. It does exactly that. It kills bacteria. Bacteria--yeast--are what cause fermentation. Kill them, you prevent fermentation.

      --Blair

  83. Article is just wrong by lkaos · · Score: 2, Troll

    So what if Russia has a "stealth" ship being designed. Do not forget, no other nation has ever proven stealth technology other than the US.

    And we are already building a fleet of stealth ships. DD-21 is our program to build new stealth ships. Our ships seem to have all the capabilities plus more. The difference is that we are very far in the development of the ships. The site has lots of cool PDFs include some cool artist renditions. The program was originally going to just create one class of ships but very recently was changed to create a whole new fleet of ships. The overall design goal is to increase lateral capabilities (ability to assist ground war by approaching shore and traveling down rivers). The program has recently been renamed to DD-X to reflect this goal.

    As far as not being able to stop their missiles, that again is just not true. Aegis ships - a program I'm proud to be a part of - have been working on TBMD (Theatre Ballistic Missile Defense) for quite some time. This is different from NTW (National Theatre Wide) or what is common referred to as national missile defense. TBMD is not effected at all by the ABM treaty so that has been being developed for quite some time.

    There are a lot of posts about Norway having stealth ships or other countries having stealth ships. The greatest part of the Norwegian Navy is their new frigates which runs Aegis. We sell alot of our technologies to other countries. Our Naval program is just so much better than any other countries. That's one of the benefits of having so many warm water ports.

    This article is not even Russian government hype but just some newspaper trying to make a story that's just not there.

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    1. Re:Article is just wrong by ViVeLaMe · · Score: 1

      And what a fine system is AEGIS.
      let's evocate mmhh say.. Iran Air Flight 855 ? (link is a transcript of a Newsweek article)
      290 civilians, 60 of them children...
      If i remember correctly, that's about the ONLY war time performance of the AEGIS system, and man, what a glorious achievement.
      I hope you're proud of a navy which thinks (with all the help of AEGIS) a Commercial Airliner (Airbus, 177 feet long, with a wingspan of 147 feet and weighing 170000 pounds) climbing at 12 000 feet, 350mph, is a F14 (38 foot wings, 62 foot long, weighing 48000 pounds) at 9000Ft and diving, at 450Mph.
      What a glorious achivement for a fine weapons system.
      I Sure hope you'll be able to do as good as this with your new stealth ship.. After all, Had the Vincennes been a stealth ship, none of that would have happened (oops, i mean, noone would have known it was the US.).
      Bunus Link:
      http://www.stanford.edu/~lswartz/acad/vincennes.pd f
      Better have a damn good UI...

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    2. Re:Article is just wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      What a glorious achivement for a fine weapons system.

      Try being more objective next time instead of putting words in the parent poster's mouth.

    3. Re:Article is just wrong by ViVeLaMe · · Score: 1

      u mean, like As far as not being able to stop their missiles, that again is just not true. Aegis [aegis-alliance.org] ships - a program I'm proud to be a part of - ? my point is that the only (as far as i know, through..) real field test was quite disastrous.
      and i did indeed put words in the parent poster's mouth, but it was clearly along the lines of Our Naval program is just so much better than any other countries.

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  84. The US had it and CANCELED it! by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We've had it for a while

    Of course, our Navy won't talk about it.


    We've had it for a while and talked about it quite a bit. And decided it was silly.

    A large stealth vessel was part of the original stealth project, and is well documented. (It was a very fast powered twin-hull, which gave them an opportunity to absorb or redirect the microwaves that got into the space UNDER the main body of the craft.)

    The problem was that it DID work.

    But the rough surface of the sea also reflects radar. The stealth craft blocked this. The net result was a dark streak on the radar background, with the stealth ship exactly at the end of the streak closest to the radar antenna.

    Effectively it was a big, black arrowhead on a dim green background, pointing exactly at the stealth vessel. The only thing missing was a label saying "Stealth ship HERE".

    To solve this you'd need to deliberately transmit a fake of a surface reflection behind you - which means that you need active ECM for EVERY radar that shines on you. Then you risk showing up as a spotlight on PASSIVE radar.

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    1. Re:The US had it and CANCELED it! by G+Neric · · Score: 2, Interesting
      i'm no expert, but this sounds like bull to me. When a ship's hull is over the horizon, the superstructure of the ship sticks up the most and becomes the first "visible" part. There is no water behind it, and stealth would work to make it invisible. This seems like an advantage. And as to radar waves that bend around the curvature, ok, then the same argument would apply to the radar horizon rather than the visible.

      there may be other reasons not to do it, but if radar echos are how you find something, then a lack of radar echoes will be an advantage, perhaps not perfect, if you don't want to be found.

    2. Re:The US had it and CANCELED it! by Cruciform · · Score: 1

      Psst. Sonar is effective at distances far beyond visual range or curvature of the horizon, thanks to thermals in the ocean currents.
      Sure you can't pinpoint a ships location exactly, but you'll be able to tell it's there. Admittedly though, this is more applicable to submarines and humpback whales than surface ships, unless the thermals are quite close to the surface.

    3. Re:The US had it and CANCELED it! by zonker · · Score: 0

      Popular Science ran an article with a nice interview with the guy who ran Skunkworks. He had mentioned that they had a design for a stealth submarine and the Navy wasn't interested because of the expense. He then joked that they had a design for an aircraft carrier and they surely wouldn't be interested in that. It ran several years ago, take a look in your archives...

  85. Re:Article is just wrong [BAD LINK] by lkaos · · Score: 2

    Should of preview'd! It's http://www.dd21.com.

    That's actually the page of the Blue Team (Lockheed Martin & Bathe Iron Works). The Gold Team has a page too http://www.dd21goldteam.com which is composed of Raytheon and Ingels Shipyard.

    Two teams are designing ships in order to produce the best one. It's pretty late in the phase though and the contract was actually supposed to be awarded a while ago. Who knows what will happen know since 9/11 though and Bush's plans to restructure everything.

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  86. We already have tons of stealth ships... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    ...they're called submarines.

  87. The Kirsk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So, do you know why that sub that was sunk was called the Kirsk? Because cities in Russia have to sponsor a ship and it is then usualy manned with sailors from their city. This is common with all vessels and a very bad sign for the russian navy. They are not a naval superpower and barely were durring the cold war.

  88. How the Air Force is disarming itself by Squorch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Re cently in the US Naval Institute's Proceedings, their monthly magazine, there was a great article describing how the amount of money that the Air Force recieves as a whole is staying the same, but their weapons of choice (F-22, B-2) are horrifically expensive. For instance, originally a force of 500-700 F-22s was envisioned by the Air Force when they decided to use the Lockheed variant of the F-22/23. However, due to budget overruns and contraints put on the program by the Air Force, that number has now shrunk to 150-250 aircraft. An analogous situation is happening with the B-2 - originally there were to be 200 of the long-range bombers. However, with current projections of $2B+ for each bomber, the number that the Air Force has for their force of B-2s is around 60, with very few of those bombers ever seeing combat, because who wants to risk a $2B bomber on a conventional bombing mission?

    The overall effect of these expensive programs is to reduce the overall force structure of the Air Force. Even with the best technology in the world, a small number of planes can still be overrun by a larger number of planes. It has been suggested that the Air Force use something like the "high/low mix" that the Navy currently uses - the "high" being the multi-billion dollar carrier, with its power projection (read: ability to launch aircraft from anywhere), and the low being the much less costly guided missile frigate, with its land attack (Tomahawk), anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare capabilities. In the end, however, Congress will most likely end up giving more money to the Air Force.

  89. I wonder.... by Roskolnikov · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the 20380 in project 20380
    just happens to also be the zip code for
    Washington DC?

    This so called stealth boat is also equipped
    with yakhont 'first strike' missiles....

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  90. Huh? by nurightshu · · Score: 1

    WTF? This article has been up for how long with no Sunken Kursk comments? Frankly, I'm shocked.

    Time to bunker down and prepare for a guided karma hit. No stealth technology to save my ass now...

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  91. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by annenk138 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually it doesn't cost much -- in rubles, that is. The Russia's legacy military-industrial complex is self-sufficient, as it does not require the services of private contractors. This gives them an opportunity to gain some share in the world's arms market. In 2000 the US held over 50% of the worldwide arms market with over $18 billion in sales. The next closest competitors were Russia with $7.7 billion, and France with sales valued at $4.1 billion.

  92. Why "stealth subs" don't work by anno1602 · · Score: 1

    The point about submarine warfare is to be as silent as you can be. Under water, you standard old radar doesn't work, visibility is close to zero. The only thing that works well is the sonar. Now, actively pinging your sonar (the pings you tend to hear in sub movies) is something you generally want to avoid, as it announces your position to all listening sonars in a large area. And because, in order for you to hear the echo of another ship, your signal has to travel back and forth, while other ships only have to get your signal, the diameter of the sphere where you are heard is about 4 timnes larger than that of the sphere where you hear the reflections. -> Don't Ping.

    So everybody is sitting down there, listening and waiting for sounds from other subs. There are two kinds of noises emitted by a sub: It's screw noises and the water rushing past the hull. The rushing has a second bad effect: If it is loud (you're going fast), your own sonar can't hear anything beside that rushing. For other sub's, your screw is relatively good to hear. So two things: Build a hull that is very silent (makes as few turbulemces as possible, i.e. very good aquadynamical shape) and a similar screw which rotates as slow as possible while giving a strong output.

    So stealth is all about being silent yourself. The only ones actively pinging are surface ships (they have nothing to loose, they are loud and sonarically blind because of the waves splashing against the hull) and helicopters searching for subs. Against that, you go with a sound-absorbing coating of the hill.

    Shaping the hull so that it reflects sonar pings into different directions than where they came from (stealthy hull design) would drastically reduce its aquadynamical qualities. So you might be invisible to surface ships, but to the bigger threat, enemy subs, you are now providing a perfect targeting beacon if you move through the seas. Plus, because you are louder, enemy sounds degarde your own sonar readings, turning you very visible and blind at once. Not ideal. The only way to counter this is move very slowly, which is not good (sometimes you just need to get outta here fast _and_ silently, i.e. there's a helicopter around, it hasn't spotted you yet. If you are to slow, it'll spot you, if you are too loud, an enemy sub will spot you. Be fast and silent).

    Last case in point: As stated, a stealthy hull has a worse aquadynamical performance. That not only means it's louder, it also adds drag, making it slower. But if somebody fires a torpedo at you, you can only turn and run. Torpedo's (excpet for the ones tested by the Kursk, as I've heard) are faster than submarines, but not that much faster. You can't really outrun it, but you can run away so fast that it'll run out of fuel before it catches you. Those knots of speed you loose with a stealthy hull are perhaps those that would have saved you.

    EOP (End of Posting)

    1. Re:Why "stealth subs" don't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  93. The US allready got a stealth ship (if they want). by espenss · · Score: 2, Informative

    The ship is in the Skjold class, and is developed in Norway. The US Navy is thinking about buying, several of these. Take a look at
    http://www.knmskjold.org/

    And yes, some of the test systems are running Linux (because I, together with others, developed one of them.) We used RealTime Linux and Qt to make a distributed failsafe system for analyzing payload from optical sensors on the hull.

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  94. In other news... by ArcadeNut · · Score: 1

    The US has declassified Project 90210. Rummors have it that anyone who has seen this project have become violently ill and many have died.

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  95. Re:Impressive? Only in it's role. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure, Russia has economic problems. They also have a shitload of natural resources and plenty of poor people willing to work cheaply. Their economy may impair international trading, but a nation can usually find some way to get its citizens to contribute to the war effort. Bush thinks "Oh, don't worry about them, their broke." What he would say if he were intelligent enough to form a complete thought on his own would be more like "We shouldn't antagonize desperate poor people with immense military technology at their disposal."

  96. Under Water Assualt rifle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (On Topic- somehow.. because its used underwater, like a ship?)
    Wow! beats the heck out of the P11, thats for sure.

  97. Who needs stealth boats.. by NirishChas · · Score: 1
    Why spend years researching stealth boat technology when the boat is almost extinct in terms of use in todays wars?

    Sure boats have been usefull in the past.. but really I dont feel that they can keep up with the pace with stealth bombers capable of coming in, wiping out an area and getting out undetected.

    Nothing more than a way of letting people know Russia is back on the map and showcasing how superior they are.

    1. Re:Who needs stealth boats.. by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 5, Funny

      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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    2. Re:Who needs stealth boats.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      4 million watts of RF energy means never having to say 'I'm sorry.'

      Unless your Aegis just vaporized an Airbus full of civillians...

  98. Visual Scanning made Easy by Skyshadow · · Score: 2
    Hey, looking for ships at sea is one of the easiest things to do with a computer, at least so far as image recognition goes.

    Think about it: you're looking for something that's a fixed shape and a fixed size (well, relatively fixed -- you can calculate by what angle the satelite is looking from) against a background that's usually pretty free from noise images.

    'course, then there's always infrared. These nuke-yoo-lar suckers tend to run pretty hot.

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  99. the french version by hawk · · Score: 2
    Yeah, but won't it just be stealthy in Germany's direction, so that attacks just detour through Belgium?


    :)


    hawk

  100. The US stealth ship will run Windows. by ViVeLaMe · · Score: 1

    mmhh...
    Check this out, seems your military industry is brain dead.

    MOUHAHAHAHAHA

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    1. Re:The US stealth ship will run Windows. by lkaos · · Score: 2

      I know. Well... that's not entirely true. Right now development is on Windows for the POC. It's all java though so I imagine they will port it to something else when it becomes tactical. It's very political right now.

      It's not uncommon for things to be prototyped on one system and then ported to another system for the tactical environment. There is some pretty harsh requirements for tactical equipment. It's a hardware thing so there's not many choices for tactical platforms.

      They obviously aren't going to put a dell laptop on the ship but it's a hell of a lot cheaper to develop on 2k dell laptops than it is to go out and get a bunch of HP workstations.

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  101. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    IR passes through clouds and fog

  102. RE: Who needs stealth boats... by gordguide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "... Sure boats have been usefull in the past.. but really I dont feel that they can keep up with the pace with stealth bombers capable of coming in, wiping out an area and getting out undetected. ..."

    Naval force is invaluable in modern warfare; there are numerous examples but an obvious one is the current action in Afganistan, a landlocked nation. Without the current cooperation from previously hostile nations, naval air power could have still done the job.

    Stealth aircraft are neither undetectable nor invulnerable to intercept by missiles. Serbian forces were able to shoot down 2 stealth fighters in action against the former Yugoslavia. Conventional radar has extreme difficulty detecting them but there are currently 2 different methods to track them; both systems are well known to US and Soviet military and have been tested by both nations (and no doubt others).

  103. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by speederaser · · Score: 2, Informative
    How does even a fly-every-minute detect object under clouds and fogs? In those conditions such a ship could be useful even against the US.

    Radar bounced off the sea from space can detect a ship's wake, which happens to point right at the ship. The process used is similar to decryption, where the natural ocean waves are the random noise and the wake is the message. Navigation radar and radio transmissions can be detected and triangulated. Infrared detectors in space can not only see plume from the smokestack, they can also see the wake from a large ship from space when cooler water is churned up to the surface.

    Below the water, the US has very sensitive listening stations scattered about to detect submarines. US submarines can track a ship from quite a distance due to noise alone. Even when not underway, waves slapping up against the side of a ship make a distinctive noise (a problem submarines don't have). I suspect those "secret" ships have been followed by US submarines wherever they went for quite some time.

  104. Sea Shadow by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The Sea Shadow was a stealth prototype, built by Lockheed's Skunk Works in the late 1980s. It used to be docked in Redwood City, California, and it's now in San Diego. It was just a prototype for radar tests; no weapons, slow speed. Ben Rich, who headed the Skunk Works at the time, wrote about it in his "Skunk Works" book. Lockheed and the Navy didn't get along.

    "Stealth ships" are a blue-water navy idea. But there hasn't been a major blue-water naval engagement in years. Today, the U.S. Navy is mostly used to project power onshore. Stealth isn't the primary criterion for that role. Armor matters more.

    There's a good argument for heavily armored battleships for shore bombardment, but the old ones took thousands of people to run, and the Navy is short on people. The U.S. Navy had an "arsenal ship" concept in the early 1990s, but never built any.

    1. Re:Sea Shadow by ink · · Score: 1

      The F-117's existence wasn't known outside of the AF and skunkworks for almost a decade, and even after that, details weren't out until after the Gulf War. The SR-71 had an even more ellusive history, with people reporting UFO sigtings about it because nobody outside of Nevada knew about it. I'm not saying that the steal ship exists, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did exist and we didn't know about it.

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    2. Re:Sea Shadow by Animats · · Score: 2
      I'm not saying that the stealth ship exists, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did exist and we didn't know about it.

      There may be some little ones. The special ops people probably have some small low-observable craft. But a big warship needs so many sailors that too many people have to know about it.

    3. Re:Sea Shadow by Squorch · · Score: 1


      Some inaccuracies in your post:
      1. "Stealth ships" are a blue-water navy idea.

      2. Armor matters more.
        • Interesting you say this, since most modern ships are lightly armored. (Not armed - note the distinction.) Witness the gaping hole in the side of the USS Cole from a small boat of explosives. And many people would say that stealth matters immensely as more and more rogue states acquire castoffs from the former Soviet Union.

      3. There's a good argument for heavily armored battleships for shore bombardment...
        • The ERGM (scroll down for a description of it) has a range far greater than any 16-inch gun ever did. In addition, guided munitions such as the Tomahawk and the ERGM are much more accurate and precise than 16-inch gunfire is, allowing for fewer shells fired and less chance of friendly fire casualties.

      4. The U.S. Navy had an "arsenal ship" concept in the early 1990s, but never built any.
        • The Navy is still reviewing this design, actually - you can see an overviews, histories and diagrams of it here, here, and here. One of the many, many reasons that it is currently in limbo has to do with a proposed plan to retrofit some of the oldest Ohio-class submarines to carry 154 Tomahawks and a SEAL team, which would duplicate the effort being expended to design an arsenal ship. The DD-21 is another duplication of effort issue further muddying the outlook for the arsenal ship, as its explicit job is land attack.



      Just trying to clear up some confusion.
  105. US Stealth doesnt work on water by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I guess you guys (USA) figured a way round it but the stuff they paint on the Planes to make them super stealthy does work when it rains.

    Bit of an issue if your tying to develop something stealthy that goes on the water.

  106. Nikitin by Niflar · · Score: 1

    check out the Bellona foundation's page [bellona.no] : their Northern Fleet page is superbly detailed and they have tons of technical details about Russia's subs and surface ships.

    Now I understand why the Russians want to put the russian Bellona-co-worker Nikitin in prison!

  107. Re:Post is just wrong by Niflar · · Score: 1

    Guess your comment is more wrong than the article. If you want to see something else than "cool artist renditions" there is a small picture at this page:

    http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/regional/mandal/1 02 286.html

    showing the proto-type KNM Skjold on the Potomac-river. (The article is in norwegian, saying that in January the building of six sister-ships of the Skjold-class will be started).

  108. Russia needs professional navy, not stealth ships by Infonaut · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Unfortunately for the Russian Navy, excellent ship designs don't equal mission readiness. Look at the ill-fated Kursk, for example. It was the pride of the Russian submarine fleet, designed with a double-hull, an escape pod, and as much underwater stealth technology as they could cram into it.

    The Kursk sank on a training mission, and according to a revealing and meticulously researched print article in the October, 2001 issue of Men's Journal, the two primary reasons for the tragic death of the entire crew were: 1) faulty cheaper torpedoes, and 2) a Russian fleet chain of command that put covering their asses before the welfare of their sailors.

    The Russian Navy is in dire straits. Submarine crews spend much of their time foraging for food. Their morale is terrible, training quality is low, and discipline is not what it should be.

    Having the best equipment in the world is no substitute for having well-trained, motivated, sailors. Until the Russians can completely overhaul their Cold War-oriented, top-heavy, political-appointee command structure, and start spending money on training and sailors rather than on huge new weapons programs, they'll continue their rapid descent into military irrelevance.

    Further reading about the Russian military from sources around the world:

    BBC
    India
    Russia

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  109. Merrimac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Jesus Christ, they've raised the Merrimac!

  110. Apparently you did not study Russian language well by burbilog · · Score: 1
    "medvedka" is a diminutive form, i.e. a cute nickname* like "cute little bear"

    Ick. Man, "medvedka" is an insect about 3.5-6 cm long. Some people call "medvedka" spalax typhlus, some people think that it's gryllus gryllotalpa. Anyway, it doens't have anything common with bears.

  111. Don't forget Sweden! by Gathers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Eh, don't forget we in Sweden also are working on a stealth ship..

    http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/visby/

    /Gathers

  112. An old Cold War joke by Galvatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two Soviet tank commanders meet in Paris. The first one asks "so, who won the air war?"

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  113. CSA had a stealth ship as well... by thumbtack · · Score: 1

    It was code named Merrimac. Of course the North's radar left something to be desired as well. CSA Stealth Ship The Merrimac (CSS Virginia) certainly bears a striking resemblance to the Russian Stealth Ship.

  114. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by logicnazi · · Score: 2

    This is complete bullshit. The fact that they own their suppliers is really irrelevant. Someone is paying lots of trained people to build shit. These people consume real resources such as food and electricity. The only way it could be self sustaining is if it was entierly paid for by foriegn arms sales.

    Your right thats possible. Maybe they will sell it to drug smugllers...they are the ppl with the most to gain from a stealth ship

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  115. Imagine... by elixx · · Score: 1

    a beowulf cluster of THESE!

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  116. Can't give the US back to the native Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Their resistance was futile. They have been assimilated. Their cultural distinctiveness has been added to our own.

  117. They can't afford to produce weapons in quantity by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 2
    The Russians continue to develop interesting weaspons platforms in their navy and air force, but the problem is there isn't any money to produce any of it in meaningful quantities.

    This is the core reason the United States no longer sees Russia as a key adversary and also why it won't let Russia into NATO - there is a clear realization that Russia continues to teeter on economic oblivion, and the US doesn't want to have to support Russia when the inevitable Sino-Russian war explodes (the Russians took Chinese territory decades back, and China has always contended that the property would once again be part of China).

    Russia is an interesting place - it has interesting technology but teeters on the brink of becoming a third world nation.

  118. you might be talking about the SeaShadow by Murphy(c) · · Score: 1

    I rembered a Poupular mechanics/Science articles a couple of years back talking about this.

    Here is some more info.

    I remember reading at the time that the general idea was to have as little radar cross-section as possible, very low noise, and almost now wake whatsoever.
    The shape evidently took care of the low radar feed-back (as a matter of fact the whole squarish shape of all the 1st generation of stealth planes was due to the limitation of the radar echoing software simulation).
    To reduce the overall noise they designed the ship to have the generators mounted above water, and only have electric engines in the submerged section.
    And lastly the wake problem was well resolved by the catamaran like shape hull.

    Murphy(c)

  119. An army crawls on its stomach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Russian armed forces have had its budget cut out from underneath it. Its likely that most European nations put more money into defense than Russia can afford to at this point. Its likely that the Russians could not sustain prolonged combat with any of its traditional adversaries at this point.

  120. Re:"stealth subs" work, just not great. by screwtheNSA · · Score: 1

    First, it's HYDRODYNAMICS, the study of motion/s in an aqueous solution(water). As the water flowing over the surfaces of ANY vessel, it makes/produces noises that are detectable by sonar; since water is the BEST conductor of audio we have, this allows the topside ship to sweep given areas of known operations of the "enemy" and use triangulation of other sweepers to vector positional locations and speed as targeting references. Noises are minimized with flooring composed of rubber. Deck surfaces can be covered with sound reduction coatings as well, but this is a higher speed to stealth cost too, not to mention the turbulence added to the wake of the vessel when operating surface and especially sub-surface. One could also "try" a heavy layering of teflon on the hull, but production costs are way out of reach and probably not all that worthwhile to attemp as well. Minimizing and eliminating the signature sounds IS of utmost importance. We chart vessels by their sonar signatures and catalog them for reference when our navy is on patrol. We can tell the class of vessel, it's heading and speed by this, not to mention it's prop sounds and how fast her screws are rotating as well. Since R.F does NOT penetrate water far, and salt water even less; forget radar use. As for surface vessels; use IR targeting for locating ships! Thermal imaging can be used under water as well as on the surface. heat is dissipated faster in water, but close range should be possible.(I never used thermal imaging, so the above comment is made as a suggestion only). Sonobuoys are constantly dropped from recon planes in hostile zones to listen for enemy movements they were previously unaware of. Steel against steel makes a great homing device! Dropped tools, striking rock, coral or other submerged strata gives locations away to the "watchful" ears of the sonar ops. If subs make sounds approximating whales...do a study of wahale activities in the area, note the type of whales there and the noises they make against what YOU hear on the headphones. Abnormal sounds from creatures not normally found in the vicinity can also be a good giveaway too. Many things can and are used to locate the enemy, even "ancient" methods can be used as they are usually thought of as old, and are forgotten as well. The old, reborn has led many a man to his death. Nobody is immune to a well orchestrated attack of forgotten tactics!

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  121. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Performer+Guy · · Score: 2

    You don't need supersonic missiles to take out drug smugglers.

    This is a weapon which threatens enemy battlegroups, or at least it would if the idea of a stealth ship was viable.

    Ships can be tracked from space, and the US has researched this. A stealth ship isn't going to be able to conceal it's position from the USA, maybe it'll help confuse a few French missiles right before the US alters it's radar profile permanently.

  122. Navy is wortless anyways by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Who cares about stealth ships? Besides the nuclear subs, the Navy is outdated and almost worthless anyways. Everyone knows that those super expensive carriers will be the first things sunk in a major conflict....

  123. Interesting Political Climate in Russia by Performer+Guy · · Score: 2

    What is really interesting here is that Russia is releasing this information. It suggests to me that the motivation was domestic politics. Putin is hoping to benefit politically from the announcement, perhaps in the wake of concerns over ABM treaty and arms reductions. It is very interesting that the Russian leadership has to play similar games as US politicians and seek political gain from unveiling secret projects that during the Soviet era would not have been discussed.

    Putin is trying to project the image that Russia is still strong and able to take a lead to a domestic audience.

  124. Sepaking of Aegis Cruiser... by hyoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know you slashdotters are gonna love this one

    1. Re:Sepaking of Aegis Cruiser... by gordguide · · Score: 1

      Very interesting. Imagine, Windows....

      The Canadian navy has just deployed the last of a dozen new frigates similar to the Aegis.
      They are described as the most advanced in the world (of course, this is a moving target).

      The US navy seems to agree, 3 are now deployed in the Gulf as part of carrier task forces. You don't leave the protection of carriers to just anybody.

      However, as for the computer system:
      27 mainframes.
      3 unique and discreet, inhouse developed OS's, running on 9 mainframes each. (My educated guess: *NIX, but it's classified).
      The 27 computers are distributed throughtout the ship so that as long as the ship floats a certain number will be operational regardless of damage area.
      Any one computer is all that is necessary to run the ship unimpaired.
      The ship can track 300+ simultaneous surface, air, or subsurface threats within a 260km radius; and can defend automatically if crew or control is damaged.
      It can move from 0 -50km/h -0 in it's own length. Actual cruise speed is classified.

  125. Medvedka is also a river, tributary of Moskva by mike449 · · Score: 1

    Many Russian missile systems are called after rivers. For example, S-125 (SA-3) anti-aircraft missile was also known as Neva. Others used names like Tunguska, Dvina, Desna, etc.

  126. Re:This is stupid...or maybe not, it all depends by OldAndSlow · · Score: 1

    It depends on the mission of the ship. I am pretty sure that the mission of this ship is coastal defense. For that mission her stealtiness is much less important than her cruising speed, 30 knots, and the range of her antiship weapon, 160 miles. That would let her leave port and, in half a day, be in position to attack a carrier battle group before the CV was in range to launch an attack on Russia. She would be able to use land-based air assets to give her targeting information to allow her to fire her missles long before she could detect the CV with her own sensors.

  127. Link to Sea Shadow by MythosTraecer · · Score: 1

    Though a little short on info, the US Navy's Fact File on the Sea Shadow is here.

    A little off-topic, but the US Navy Fact File site contains info on all kinds of Navy military hardware. If you hear about a ship in the news, like the Enterprise, the Carl Vinson, or the Peleliu, you can find out more information (and links to most of the ships' web sites) there.

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  128. No the Caanites built it by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2

    The Hebrews just invaded it

    Anyway that's all ancient history

  129. The Aegis issue by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 2
    Besides, hiding from the radar on your average destroyer is one thing, hiding from an Aegis cruiser is something else.

    I think perhaps that comment was more on target than you meant it to be (no pun intended). If RADAR wasn't still the dominant means of seaborne tracking, people wouldn't have been spending the vast sums they have on Aegis technology, and rolling it out onto the fleet as fast as they can. They also wouldn't be nearly so concerned at suggestions that foreign intelligence groups have nicked the stuff, and might get it onto their ships, too.

    On a side note, didn't the US recently decline to give Taiwan Aegis-equipped vessels as part of the military support they're providing, and give the "it's too powerful" argument as justification? (This is a genuine question; I have a vague memory but can't recall the details.)

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    1. Re:The Aegis issue by Seneca · · Score: 1

      Isn't the Aegis system largely an AIR DEFENSE system? There is that entire troublesome problem of a shop based radar not being able to see through the horizon, limiting detection of surface targets to 30 miles or so, depending on their size.

      Oh the joys of Naval wargaming...

      Then there's the fact that most wakes glow faintly at night...

      And one other question: If a space based radar can texture-map large areas of ocean, it should be able to spot wakes, right?

  130. Don't underestimate the Russians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They're a clever people. It is like a country where the average IQ is 110 instead of 100.

  131. False, they don't make the best submarines by NRAdude · · Score: 0

    Their submarines are simply known for their size and noisiness. Their Typhoon class submarines are just that: big and noisy. I have read quite a few documentaries on the Typhoon class and it appears more as an insult to the art of war. Inside each Typhoon is a swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, entertatinment room, and more for the crew's enjoyment and leisure. Although they are all nulear-powered, for their size and noise it is justified because they would need a large source of energy to bring all that shit with them.

    Compared to the US Navy's Trident class submarine, the Russian Typhoon class is a bad joke taken to extreme measures. The Trident call submarine is more than two times smaller, holds the same ammount of crew members with one crew sleeping and one crew in operation, the Trident class submarine is nuclear powered with silent operation. I visit San Diego and go fishing quite often through the harbor. The US Navy has dry docks for the Trident submarines right there and you can see them docked! They have each and every Trident class submarine's rudder and propeller hidden with a large tarp because its silent operation is in the design of its propulsion system entirely.

    I read in another documentary about how a submarine's crew can distinguish between civilian, cargo, and naval wartime vessels all underwater. Companies that build marine grade engines are ordered to build the propeller a certain way so it is distinguishable. Makes you wonder about the FBI and Magic Lantern virus. They are tracking everyone everywhere!

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  132. Re:This is stupid... but you said it anyway. by Grab · · Score: 2

    You can't target something using satellite imaging. To hit this will require eyeball guidance, or laser illumination from a targetting device. Either a plane will have to have a continuous view of it to guide the missile in, or a ship will have to be within eyeball range and guide the fire in by eye. Makes it pretty difficult to hit.

    And this is only going to be a proof-of-concept, remember. You reckon every last thing that Lckheed's Skunk Works comes up with is going into production? They'll try out lots of different stuff to see what works and learn lessons from that b4 they build one for real.

    Also, please note that world politics have changed since 1950. The Russians are no longer automatically the enemies of the US. It's not necessary to have the strongest army in the world, you only need a stronger army than the person you think is most likely to attack you.

    Grab.

  133. Re: Who needs stealth boats... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What methods?

  134. No, It Runs Cesium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    see www.slant-six.org