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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

U.S. eyes Russian submarines off East Coast

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Russian submarines in place off East Coast of the US = As boss Putin can almost see in Sarah's future office
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6 comments:

  1. are you serious you act like this is a big surprise i am more afraid of what congress is doing to our country than the russian submarines.


    kathy saylor

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  3. CNN is overlooking a couple of small items here.

    From the article: The Akula-class nuclear-powered submarines, which are normally equipped with surface-loaded cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles, have stayed in international waters, the source said. These are not the class of submarines that can launch intercontinental nuclear missiles.

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  4. From http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/akula/ The Akula Class carry up to 12 Granit submarine-launched cruise missiles. The missiles are fired from the 533mm torpedo launch tubes. Granit (Nato designation: SS-N-21 Sampson) has a range of about 3,000km and delivers a 200kt warhead.

    The CEP (the circle of equal probability) is 150m. The CEP value is a measure of the accuracy of strike on the target and is the radius of the circle within which half the strikes will impact. The land attack Granit missile uses inertial and terrain following guidance.

    The submarine's anti-ship missiles are the Novator SS-N-15 Starfish and the Novator SS-N-16 Stallion. The Starfish, fired from the 533mm tubes, has a target range of 45km. The Stallion, fired from the 650mm tubes, has a longer range of up to 100km. The Stallion and the Starfish can be armed with a 200kt warhead or a type 40 torpedo.

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  5. Now a cruise missile is not technically a ICBM but 12 200K warheads w/ a 3000K range is not a short range missile by any mean. Just happened to notice this. Thought my memory was off so had to check it.

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  6. This is just too too brilliant!

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