TW: The Information Dissemination blog is an awesome resource for anyone interested in American or world navel information. In this piece, Galrahn highlights the hollowness of the Russian navy. Despite their recent high profile deployments (duly fretted about at places like Fox News or Debka, the Israeli right wing site), the Russians are much more bark than bite. If one, I repeat ONE, ship is performing the majority of all your worldwide deployments, then you do not really have a deep water navy.
From Information Dissemination:
"As I have noted many times on the blog, RFS Admiral Chabanenko (DDG 650) is the hardest working warship in the world. Prior to mid last year, RFS Admiral Chabanenko (DDG 650) was basically the only Russian warship that made global deployments. Imagine being the only naval ship to protect Russian maritime interests for half a decade...For those who watch too much TV, this is the same destroyer Foxnews played over and over again on TV last month when it pulled into Cuba, and RFS Admiral Chabanenko (DDG 650) was the escort during the Caribbean Sea cruise with the nuclear powered battlecruiser RFS Pyotr Veliky (BCGN 099)..."
http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2009/01/hardest-working-warship-in-world.html
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