Project 955: Borei class SSBN #2

Hole wrote:Same is true for the US with roughly 35 operational subs.
Small number for such a large area as the World Oceans.

The point ALAMO made is about the fact that Russia already has a new generation of subs with new missiles = a safe deterrence.
While the Americans are way behind and even their new "boats" will only receive old missiles.

It is not only that.
Russia did that in a harsh years of big troubles.
Advanced, modified, and carried on.
While keeping the budget and costs, and a fukin' surplus budget.
It is already being pushed forward, that a modernization of the US nuke arsenal will cost TRILLION plus.
A country that already has most debts on the planet, is having wet dreams about making a new generation of strategic weapons at the cost of newly emitted debt.
Someone needs to absorb it.
Like ... Jurop?
That was not as much in debt, some serious accumulation of a capital ...?
This is a cancer.
Nothing more, nothing less.
We need chemotherapy.

Hole wrote:Same is true for the US with roughly 35 operational subs.
Small number for such a large area as the World Oceans.

The point ALAMO made is about the fact that Russia already has a new generation of subs with new missiles = a safe deterrence.
While the Americans are way behind and even their new "boats" will only receive old missiles.

The Yasen-M is way more advanced than the Virginia in terms of weapons systems with the Oniks and Kalibr. Once it gets the Zircon and Kalibr-M the gap will grow even more. The only problem is there still aren't that many of them.

The US is still operating a huge amount of Cold War era submarine like the Los Angeles class submarines which should be in the scrap heap.

Arrow wrote:24 SSN Los Angeles and 24 new Virginia class plus 14 Ohio. That's 65 submarines, not 35. In addition, another 10 Virginias are under construction and 1 or 2 Columbia under construction.

He said operational. You can assume of each three submarines only one is operational. The others will be undergoing maintenance, returning back to port, or whatever.

Are we still answering to this "pointy" troll?

GarryB wrote:

Russia need to build much more Yasen and a new cheaper SSN.

That is under development.

Jokes aside, every single Russkie Antey operational value equals 2-3 Virginias.
The only missing thing is a number - they can be in one place only.
This thing is getting more and more grotesque if you dig deeper.
Soviet subs were like a Porsche compared to Chevrolet.
Every single one was faster, could dive deeper, and carried more weapons on board.
Only with the Seawolf, Muricans manage to close this gap - and that was only because of the end of the SU.
But they can't afford it, so operate a sub that is a de facto Los Angeles Mod 3. An inexpensive, compromised model made to match the numbers.
Still being 3x more costly that the equivalent
To cover the reality, they have used the regular Anglosaxon stuff - propaganda.
Pushing forward claims and delusions that could not have been objectively checked and confirmed.
How do you argue noise level, if you are not a sonar operator who dealt with it?
How do you argue the effectiveness of the Soviet sonar systems, and computers operating the signals, if you are not - again - a sonar operator?
My friends were crewmembers of 877 class submarine. Till the late 00s.
They were the kings of the Baltics and dukes of the Northern Sea.

885 subs are the kings of modern naval warfare, second to none.
Nobody in the west has anything to match it.
The fact that Russkie can produce those in such an effective way and serial is shocking.

So, more propaganda and Hollywood is needed. Maybe Aquaman 3 will deal with them, using his oversized fork.