Holy mother of Russian submarines!

Too bad it's full of Russians. I remember when they called the MIG-25 "The Flying Restaurant" .. they would drink the hydraulic fluid because it was alcohol-based and use its overpowered vacuum tube radar to cook rabbits they caught at the airfield.
 
Just guessing, 10% submarine, 90% propaganda. Maybe even an empty tube.
 
Schattenreiter said:
Any body know if he was a Democrat? If he can vote after he is dead maybe he can still write too.
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There are several authors that write under his name, keeping the different series going
 
Ikarus1 said:
"Sevmash first laid down Belgorod in 1992, less than a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union."

Yeah, state of the art circa 1992.
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According to NI and the article, there is a strong probability it's pretty advanced given its mission. Who knows.
 
I was a Navy Intel Officer. We would squint at photos taken sometimes from space, sometimes from water level. Some had round frames with crosshairs. People put their lives on the line to get us some of those photos. And now it's right here on the Internet for everyone to see. Things are so different than 30 years ago.

I wonder if it has one of those caterpillar drives.
 
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It's like those old sub movies where they're trying to be very quiet, though I can't understand why because nobody is going to hear anything over the damn sonar pinging.
 
I heard it is powered by Venezuelan currency, the 'Bolivar' lol because like 100K of them is equal to one gallon of gas!
 
noway2 said:
It's like those old sub movies where they're trying to be very quiet, though I can't understand why because nobody is going to hear anything over the damn sonar pinging.
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Down Periscope, the fart scene.

 
MostWanted said:
I was a Navy Intel Officer. We would squint at photos taken sometimes from space, sometimes from water level. Some had round frames with crosshairs. People put their lives on the line to get us some of those photos. And now it's right here on the Internet for everyone to see. Things are so different than 30 years ago.

I wonder if it has one of those caterpillar drives.
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I was going through crypto school in 92. They were telling us about a new Russian aircraft carrier that had a ramp to more easily launch their new semi VTOL planes. The intel community was dying to get photos of it.

About 2 nights later NatGeo has a program on it. I hit records on my VCR. In depth film with planes launching and landing. I took it into class in the SCIF the next day. The OIC took a look at it and then immediately confiscated the tape saying it was classified material and couldn’t leave.

It was at that point I understood why everyone hated all of us in milintel.
 
Chdamn said:
I was going through crypto school in 92. They were telling us about a new Russian aircraft carrier that had a ramp to more easily launch their new semi VTOL planes. The intel community was dying to get photos of it.

About 2 nights later NatGeo has a program on it. I hit records on my VCR. In depth film with planes launching and landing. I took it into class in the SCIF the next day. The OIC took a look at it and then immediately confiscated the tape saying it was classified material and couldn’t leave.

It was at that point I understood why everyone hated all of us in milintel.
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If it's open source, what 'classification can it be given? Jeez. Officers.
 
Chdamn said:
I was going through crypto school in 92. They were telling us about a new Russian aircraft carrier that had a ramp to more easily launch their new semi VTOL planes. The intel community was dying to get photos of it.

About 2 nights later NatGeo has a program on it. I hit records on my VCR. In depth film with planes launching and landing. I took it into class in the SCIF the next day. The OIC took a look at it and then immediately confiscated the tape saying it was classified material and couldn’t leave.

It was at that point I understood why everyone hated all of us in milintel.
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Maybe you should have sent it via a private email server because I understand those cannot be retrieved.
 
MostWanted said:
Maybe you should have sent it via a private email server because I understand those cannot be retrieved.
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What is this thing called email? Would have been my question in 92. Lol.
 
Chdamn said:
What is this thing called email? Would have been my question in 92. Lol.
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When I started my graduate work at Dartmouth in 1990, their "Blitzmail" system was just becoming "official" - that is, students starting in '91 or so were required to have computers (Macs) and the system was considered mandatory use for official notifications & business. To this Luddite, it was Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot!
 
GreatGazoo said:
When I started my graduate work at Dartmouth in 1990, their "Blitzmail" system was just becoming "official" - that is, students starting in '91 or so were required to have computers (Macs) and the system was considered mandatory use for official notifications & business. To this Luddite, it was Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot!
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In 93 or 94 the marine corps rolled out this corps wide notification system. Dos based email system. It was only in company offices and above.

There were several accidents where people accidentally sent out a corps wide notification for something local and the system would crash with everyone being asshats and making snarky replies.
 
Chdamn said:
In 93 or 94 the marine corps rolled out this corps wide notification system. Dos based email system. It was only in company offices and above.

There were several accidents where people accidentally sent out a corps wide notification for something local and the system would crash with everyone being asshats and making snarky replies.
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I work for a global company that has 10,000 employees. One day someone sent out an email to the whole world, "has anyone seen the keys to the truck?". We were getting emails like "We checked and they are not in Bahrain", and "not in our office but we couldn't tell you anyway because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas".

My brother works for a construction equipment company. One employee there, using Lotus, set up a out-of-office auto answer email, then emailed himself to see if it worked. Crashed the server.
 
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GreatGazoo said:
When I started my graduate work at Dartmouth in 1990, their "Blitzmail" system was just becoming "official" - that is, students starting in '91 or so were required to have computers (Macs) and the system was considered mandatory use for official notifications & business. To this Luddite, it was Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot!
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When I was in graduate school at Duke around 94 we are just getting into an email program called Pine. Cumbersome, hard to use. By that point maybe 25% of the students had personal computers and probably half of those people we're on AOL.
 
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