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Russian navy squadron sets off for Mediterranean
Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo announced that two flotillas from the Barents Sea and the Black Sea are heading for the Mediterranean:
One, based in the Barents sea near Finland, is led by the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier. The 67,500-ton Kreml class aircraft carrier supports strategic missile carrying submarines, surface ships and maritime missile-carrying aircraft of the Russian fleet. The ship is capable of engaging surface, subsurface and airborne targets. The ship has the capacity to support 16 Yakovlev Yak-41M (Freestyle) and 12 Sukhoi Su-27K (Flanker) fixed wing aircraft and a range of helicopters including four Kamov Ka-27-LD (Helix), 18 Kamov Ka-27 PLO, and two Ka-27-S. The ship has a Granit anti-ship missile system equipped with 12 surface to surface missile launchers. The air defence gun and missile system includes the Klinok air defence missile system with 24 vertical launchers and 192 anti-air missiles. The system defends the ship against anti-ship missiles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and surface ships. The ship is equipped with an Udav-1 integrated anti-submarine system with 60 anti-submarine rockets. Is accompanied by two guided missile destroyers, the Admiral Chabanenko and Admiral Levchenko, with two supply ships in tow, one a tanker.
The second is the guided nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great, one of the biggest warships afloat, with three accompanying ships. They come from a joint Caribbean exercise with Venezuela.
According to the Russian Navy spokesman, the two groups will merge upon entering the Mediterranean.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-russia-navy,0,5944691.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120500176.html
The U. S. has now deployed:
1. the USS John C. Stennis, which carries 80 fighter-bombers and 3,200 sailors and airmen and leads a strike group..
This carrier joins two already there, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which patrols the northern Arabian Sea, part of whose strike group cruises opposite Iran’s southern coast; and the USS Iwo Jima, which carries a large marine contingent on board.
2. New to these waters, according to military sources, is the Destroyer Squadron 50/CTF 55, which has two task forces: Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA) for strikes against warships and the rapid deployment of marines to flashpoint arenas; and Mine Countermeasures Division 31, which stands ready to prevent New Delhi or Islamabad from mining the Arabian Sea routes connecting their ports. Those routes are vital waterways for US marine traffic supporting the war in Afghanistan.
3. To manage this armada, the command and control vessel, USS Mount Whitney, has been brought over from the Mediterranean.
4. Four nuclear submarines.
Analysis from a certain Israeli military man :
I have no doubt Israel would have to fight Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria along with Iran. It will not be conventional. This war will be meant as the end of Israel, but Israel will survive. It is much better than risking complete destruction in a year for failure to act.
The last war against the Hezbollah, Israel’s military had their hands tied. They could not act. The army did not take take offensive action. That is the only reason they looked to have lost. Short incursions by small task forces did not do the job. A full-scale invasion against the mere 10,000 Hezbollah would have been a cake walk. Olmert never acted and never sought a full-scale invasion.
Israel could take out Syria and Hamas with its reserves and a squadron of F-15i’s and Iran cannot bring an army to Israel to fight. Needless to say, the Hezbollah has 40,000 missiles, but if Israel can move its army north they would take out the threat. What will happen is the missile attacks against Israel from all enemies will be debilitating and when combined with chemical weapons and maybe one nuke, Israel will have great losses. However, the retaliatory strikes against Iran and Syria will reduce the population of arabs and persians by a few million as Israel would retaliate with neutron bombs.
I can foresee the U.S. joining in on airstrikes against Iran merely for retaliation of strikes on U.S. bases. In the end, things will calm down, the World will be shocked by the ferocity of the attacks, and then a lull will happen. I would be more concerned with Russia and China and their actions once the arab nations and persia are made into parking lots.
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what ever the nwo wants we are sure to get.is the sen from ill part and parcel of the nwo? if not he sure picked a fine bunch to advise him.one thing for sure is when the mideast explodes a lot of folks are going to wake up,dead.
Comment by bert sargent December 9, 2008 @ 6:36 pmThis movement concerns me. If it comes down to a naval showdown with Russia, we will absolutely own them. But we are too spread out now to fight a conventional land war with a nation with almost 30,000 tanks. Israel needs to act against Iran’s nuclear program now. I have no problem seeing Iran, Syria, and the rest of the cronies turned into radioactive glass factories, but Israel must consider China and Russias close relationship with Iran. We are watching the construction of new super-alliances: Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia, Syria, and others. NATO needs to begin accelerating military development and rearmament. Sheer numbers would overwhelm us a war came between us and the new alliance and that is unacceptable. America will stand with Israel and her allies. Even a coward like Obama can’t force our military to abandon our friends.
Comment by benjaminvallen1 December 10, 2008 @ 3:15 pmIn a perfect world, the U.S. pulls out, including bases, and lets Russia waste it’s time on the middle east.
Comment by neotericamerica December 10, 2008 @ 10:30 pmThose of you who talk about creating “glass factories” out of Iran and Seria should remember who it is that you are eliminating. You would so eagerly kill millions to save you and your family, yes those millions of irradiated people, children, women, elderly, and those who are not part of the millitary, …. you know “civillians” those innocents that are now called “collateral damage” and to what end? Listen, when was the last time you pissed in your own bathwater or drank from the toilet? That radiation and poison for generations to come circles the earth and many who are down wind would not appreciate the radioactive iodine in our thyroids! Wake up and start thinking about what you are promoting and what you are asking (in the name of God?) Sheesh!
Comment by GulfCaptain December 11, 2008 @ 5:57 amIt most likely is a visit to one of the Syrian ports of call that the Russians are moving into the Mediterranean Sea. If they are there to persuade Israel to not attack Iran before Obama is sworn into office then that puts those seven Russian war ships in a very close disadvantageous position. Right under the radar and guns of both Israel and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. OOPPSS!!. So don’t worry King David. We got your back. Go kill a billion Sand Niggers. Please!! Since all we have back here in the U.S. is a bunch of cowards, communists, and traitors in the U.S. Congress who should be living in Russia since they like Stalins form of goverment so dam much. They crindge at the thought of total nuclear war. What a bunch of cowards the American people have become. The Russians are preparing for total war as are the Chinks. They are preparing to win total nuclear war. Are the British and the Americans preparing to win total nuclear war. No, and the rest of the world knows they are yellow cowards as the day is long. So what is needed is for Israel to start the ball rolling by wiping out some of the nuclear facilities in Iran. Not all of them. Just a few of the minor ones so that Iran can have a reason and a cause to squel like Jewish pigs and really ramp up the production of A-bombs and H-bombs so that the U.S. will have to go on a total war footing industrialy. No more producing civilian crap from American factories. Total war footing; like after Pearl Harbour. Then to retaliate the Persians launch a nuke at Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem which the U.S. military can easily take over the internal guidance of the missle and direct it out to; oh I don’t know, say the Russian fleet docked at the port of say a pain in the ass place like Syria and Boom, the Iranians have single handedly made eternal enemies of the Vlad the Impailer and can expect a nuclear response in say about 20 or 30 minutes. It takes a while longer for phone calls to get to the right place even in modern day Russia with express Yak service. The animal not the phone company. Although it is hard to tell the difference since the animals express service has always been much faster than the Yak phone Company’s service. So if you want to get rid of a problem like Persia you have to set the trap for them to fall into. So you wipe out just a few minor nuclear facility sites and then just set back and watch the fun begin. It’ll be a blast man!
Comment by Frederick Ledbetter December 11, 2008 @ 8:32 amNHSoBK Thanks for good post
Comment by johnny December 29, 2008 @ 3:31 pm