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[Sergarr]

Well, this is interesting. Apparently this was an "accidentally™" leaked page from a secret Russian military project, and, well, I'm just going to translate it:

Spoiler: James Bond's villains would be envious of this (click to show/hide)

Oceanic Multi-purpose system "Status-6"
Developer - JSC "CDB ME" Rubin "

Purpose: The defeat of the important economic facilities in the area of the enemy coast and causing guaranteed unacceptable damage to the country's territory through the establishment of extensive zones of radioactive contamination, unsuitable for implementation in these areas of military, economic, business or other activity for a long time.

"As suspected carriers of the top left depicts nuclear-powered submarine for special purposes being built "Belgorod" Project 09852, to the right - a nuclear submarine for special purposes being built "Khabarovsk" Project 09851"

"According to the information given on the printout slide demonstrated in TV programs, the system represents a massive torpedo, which is designated as a "self-propelled underwater vehicle", with a range of up to 10 thousand kilometers and a depth of about 1 thousand meters."

Apparently that old Soviet academic Saharov's idea has not been forgotten... pretty ironic, given that he was a major anti-Soviet activist, to the point of being the iconic dissident.

[Loud Whispers]

Appear strong when you are weak, and strong when you lift
Always stronk
In all seriousness though is this even real? Never forget that the cheapest minefield is a lie.

[Helgoland]

Saharov? Wasn't that the guy who came up with Saharov's Third Idea, ie the Soviet hydrogen bomb?

[Sergarr]

Appear strong when you are weak, and strong when you lift
Always stronk
In all seriousness though is this even real? Never forget that the cheapest minefield is a lie.

It may or may not be real or not real. Either way it's gotta be pretty effective at getting military budgets up.

Saharov? Wasn't that the guy who came up with Saharov's Third Idea, ie the Soviet hydrogen bomb?

Yes.

[Loud Whispers]

Sounds like a PR thing to get Russians 2patriot4u
I don't think Russia is invading anyone more than usual to warrant spookifying Obama with nuclear salty torpedos

[sprinkled chariot]

Probably that is way to say : ok, if you want to go with anti-missile defence in europe,  continue, we can get some 2asymetrical warfare 4 u anyway

During Khrushev there was  project like that, but the point was to erase american coastal cities from the earth with giant waves, not irradiating everything. Irradiating everything is pretty insane.
If they are going to make this real, I am wondering, how do they make torpedo water pressure resistant enough. And, well, only submarine komsomolets out of combat submarines submerged more then 1000 metres deep, and now Russia does not look rich enough to build whole combat submarines out of titanium for such depths.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Oh, good old Russian wunderwaffe propaganda.

Spoiler: This piece was way more cool (click to show/hide)

US destroyer "Donald Cook" with cruise missiles "Tomahawk" entered the neutral waters of the Black Sea on April 10. The purpose was a demonstration of force and intimidation in connection with the position of Russia in Ukraine and Crimea. The appearance of American warships in these waters is in contradiction of the Montreux Convention about the nature and duration of stay in the Black Sea by the military ships of countries not washed by this sea.

In response, Russia sent an unarmed bomber Su- 24 to fly around the U.S. destroyer. However, experts say that this plane was equipped with the latest Russian electronic warfare complex. "Aegis" spotted from afar the approaching aircraft, and sounded alarm. Everything went normally, American radars calculated the speed of the approaching target. And suddenly all the screens went blank. "Aegis" was not working any more, and the rockets could not get target information. Meanwhile, Su-24 flew over the deck of the destroyer, did battle turn and simulated missile attack on the target. Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times.
Apparently, all efforts to revive the "Aegis" and provide target information for the defence failed. Russia's reaction to military pressure from the United States was profoundly calm, feels the Russian political scientist Pavel Zolotarev:

The demonstration was original enough. A bomber without any weapons, but having onboard equipment for jamming enemy radar, worked against a destroyer equipped with "Aegis", the most modern system of air and missile defence. But this system of mobile location, in this case the ship, has a significant drawback. That is, the target tracking capabilities. They work well when there is a number of these ships which can coordinate with each other somehow. In this case there was just one destroyer. And, apparently, the algorithm of the radar in the "Aegis” system on the destroyer did not load under the influence of jamming by the Su-24. It was therefore not only a nervous reaction to the fact of flying around by the Russin bomber which was common practice during the Cold War. The reaction of the Americans was due to the fact that most modern system, especially its informative or radar part, did not work adequately. Therefore, there was such a nervous reaction to the whole episode.

After the incident, the foreign media reported that "Donald Cook" was rushed into a port in Romania. There all the 27 members of the crew filed a letter of resignation. It seems that all 27 people have written that they are not going to risk their lives. This is indirectly confirmed by the Pentagon statement according to which the action demoralized the crew of the American ship.

[Bouchart]

Where did you get that excerpt from?  Pravda?

[Rolepgeek]

I think I'll ptw, if that's alright. Don't learn enough about global politics here, I'm afraid.

[martinuzz]

the Kremlin finally acknowledged today that the Russian airliner was indeed brought down over Egypt by an explosive.
Putin has stated he will increase the fighting against terrorism, and has ordered cruise missile strikes on Raqqa, last night.

Raqqa is in for a shitstorm. French bombs coming in from one side, Russian cruise missiles from the other side.

[Sergarr]

50 million dollars for information about Sinai teract organizers. That's twice as much as USA promised for capturing Osama.

yeah ISIS is going to be so rekt they'll invent a new word just to describe how much they've got rekt

[Vilanat]

Should have offered

[Loud Whispers]

Breaking news: Archaeologists have discovered the bones of the Tyrannosaurus Rekt

[martinuzz]

The US senate voted against taking in more Syrian refugees.

The US is henceforth known in the world as "that nation that you should not make agreements with, because they'll just break them"

It's just plain dumb. If those senators had taken the time to do their jobs, and inform themselves about it, European intelligence agencies could hve told them that the Paris attacks were mostly if not completely carried out by people who were born and raised in Europe (except for the Syrian passport that was found, which might just as well be a stolen passport from an innocent refugee).
So if those senators are so afraid for terrorist attacks, as to take back a promise made to the international community about taking in 100k refugees, they should be consistent, and also vote to remove all muslims from the US.

[sluissa]

The US senate voted against taking in more Syrian refugees.

The US is henceforth known in the world as "that nation that you should not make agreements with, because they'll just break them"

It's just plain dumb. If those senators had taken the time to do their jobs, and inform themselves about it, European intelligence agencies could hve told them that the Paris attacks were mostly if not completely carried out by people who were born and raised in Europe (except for the Syrian passport that was found, which might just as well be a stolen passport from an innocent refugee).
So if those senators are so afraid for terrorist attacks, as to take back a promise made to the international community about taking in 100k refugees, they should be consistent, and also vote to remove all muslims from the US.

Unless it's another Syrian passport, that was found to belong to an innocent spectator that was nearby one of the explosions and later found to be in the hospital with severe injuries.

It is disappointing, but to senators, it's just "What's the outrage of the month and our chance to vote on it?" Nobody cares what the vote actually does. Nobody cares of long term effects. Nobody cares about the details. It's all just "I MUST SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR OR AGAINST THIS THING WHICH PEOPLE ARE HEARING ABOUT RIGHT NOW."