"Coming Soon — Containerized Missiles on Russian Warships" Topic
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Tango01  | 16 Jun 2018 9:31 p.m. PST |
"Russia's military spending cannot match the Kremlin's ambitions. Western sanctions and low gas prices forced a 20-percent cut to the Russian military budget in 2017, bedeviling a host of military projects. However, Russia is looking at cheap and easy ways to equip its forces — particularly the navy — with sophisticated weapons. Specifically, modular weapons that can easily swap in and out of different ships — with the most well-known example being Club-K anti-ship missiles hidden inside shipping containers, which Russia offers for sale to export customers. Any coastal defense force on a budget can have a well-camouflaged warship killer hidden in a civilian port…."
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 17 Jun 2018 8:02 a.m. PST |
I wonder how they decide who gets the guided missile system this week? |
| Ghostrunner | 17 Jun 2018 8:07 a.m. PST |
There's a very good reason not to hide your military among your civilians. People keep forgetting that and then scream about what inevitably happens next. |
 Striker | 17 Jun 2018 8:56 a.m. PST |
I read about that type of thing months ago. Part of a discussion on coastal defense. The same type of thing for land based systems where you dot them along a coast (or island) and have one control box. |
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