Tobin Harshaw, Bloomberg: Putin's Navy Sends a Shot Across Obama's Bow
Russia's attack on Syrian territory last week, using cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea, led to a fair amount of chuckling in the West, after U.S. reports that four of the missiles crashed in Iran. But this is no laughing matter. Arguing over the attack's effectiveness misses the point.
If Moscow had only wanted to hit Bashar al-Assad's enemies in Syria, it has plenty of ships nearby in the Mediterranean to do the job. Rather, the Russians launched the 26 missiles from the Caspian simply to show they were capable of doing so. The U.S. and its allies should be warned: Vladimir Putin notched another success.
Western militaries were already well aware that Russia had capable cruise missiles, which are self-propelled weapons that can fly great distances at supersonic speed and below radar detection. The West also knew that Moscow had deployed four armed corvette warships in the Caspian, where it has maintained a naval presence for centuries.
WNU Editor: The above video is a presentation of the Russian 3M-54 Klub missile system .... and a heads-up to the U.S. Navy on what the Russian (and probably Chinese) military strategists/planners/and leaders are thinking and developing.
8 comments:
Club K used to launch an EMP attack.
WTF has not the f_cking politicians hardened the grid!
Newt Gringrich has talked about it, but no one takes him seriously, unless he is on the couch with Nancy Pelousy talking about AGW.
The grid has not been hardened why?
F_____RS!
is any country hardened against that?
Russia and Texas might survive without electricity, but what about places like the EU?
Money, get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling
set
And I think I need a Lear jet
You were saying something about the grid? Hell ya! We privatized that s@@t! Woo Woo! Vote Trump!!!
Anyway,
Hey Aizino,
Respectfully,
look up how long the lead time is on a LPT (that's a large power transformer) and just how many firms make them anymore in North America. Last I checked a large percentage of the grid xfmrs in service are fifty years and older. New ones do not grow on trees and it takes specific skill sets to build and set them up. See: real education funding.
Now, an LPT here and there can be replaced, even repaired, (albeit the procurement experiece will make you want to chew your own guts out) but that's not what we're talking about is it my well read forum chum? Nope. Our stoopid (well, not you Aizino, youre far from stoopid...like Pluto far) asses will get Klubbed.
This isnt even getting into the network switches, routers, modems, servers, electronically controlled/designed motor starters, controls, switches etc. you get my drift.
As for Texas in said scenario?
Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Y, arriba arriba
Ay, arriba y arriba, por ti seré
Por ti seré
Por ti seré
Cuba.
The concept of the contained system in a contained is brilliant, using a system like this you could arm almost any vessel for a low cost vs the cost of a Navel ship. You could also preposition containers in other peoples countries just sitting in a truck yard. The new tech is really cool and is making the situation very interesting.
RRH
About the LPTs
They are made abroad and they have a lead time of something like 6 to 18 months.
A simple FMEA would say you would want 3 to 12 on hand as back up.
An EMP could cover a large portion of the US might not cover it all so it would not get all the LPTs.
Having 3 or more would not cover all the losses, but It might make a potential enemy reconsider. It would complicate their planning.It is sort of like you you can hit 1st with conventional nukes but unless you wipe out the other sides nukes, you will get your ass handed to you in turn.
I mean for other parts we have safety stocks and stuff. All those calculations are known.
Most any engineer with the LPT prints could get these things made.
A good start. Now try convincing the oatmeal heads to implement it.
It'd be a good idea to have the tradespeople needed, and organized, to put all this stuff together. We have to take note that all this would be going on in the midst of a wide scale blackout with all its attendant "challenges". For instance, imagine trying to get your line crews and electricians mobilized and on site in the midst of a mass Baltimore (and itll be much much worse than that).
A federal list of skilled trades personnel and the ability/structure to organize and deploy them would be necessary ( imagine the resistance to that!!!). I dare say, they should be seen as a critical element of national defence.
RRH
Step 1 Create, find, update a TDP
Step 2 Identify manufacturing facilities.
Step 3 Find rich Donors like Gates
Step 4 build some and set them aside
or build them install them and set aside the old one as a spare for a number of years.
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