Monday, June 8, 2026

Well, Ain't It Ironic?

 NATO planes shooting down 404 drones in Latvia's air space. 


And they better, because these are Baltic statelets and Finland who provided their air space to 404 while pretending that they know nothing. And then Russia issued warning and something changed. Of course, they will not admit it but Europe understands only big stick, Russia ran out carrots long time ago. Here is how these Baltic creeps feel themselves now. 


Next, is yet another chihuahua from Europe--Denmark--which wants to aid 404 and whose people live on a fanatical hatred of Russia (beats me, trying to rationalize this Danish obsession), but then again--this what Europe is in its death throes, which change nothing in the outcome of the greatest geopolitical shift in the last half-millennium. 

Meanwhile, Admiral Nakhimov is completing her final sea trials and soon will rejoin the fleet. 


As was stated not for once, the fate of Peter the Great is yet to be decided, but it looks like she will be decommissioned. Considering the tempo of the development of hypersonic weaponry in Russia and the start of building of "Super" Gorshkovs (pr. 22350M) with 64 (strike missiles) + 32 (Air Defense missiles) 3S14 UKSK cells and capable of 400 km range air defense. Building two (or even three) such ships for the same price of modernizing Peter makes more sense. Pr. 22350 will have a displacement of around (give and take) 9,000 tons and will have no rivals in terms of strike power and air defense with the exception of said Admiral Nakhimov. To understand why analogy to DDGs of Arleigh Burk-class is erroneous, enough to say that in terms of the range of its land-attack weapon (3M14M, Kalibr-M) it can strike at 4,500 km, while in terms of hypersonic arsenal--that's not even funny to compare. Superficial similarity in terms of the number of vertical cells is where it all ends. 

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