Photos Russian military

[Unknowncommando]

Rostov-on-Don

 

[Unknowncommando]

special forces of the Pskov Russian Guard​

 

[Unknowncommando]

A Russian soldier gets his weapon ready while patrolling a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. [AP Photo]

 

[S.B. Baramba]

BMP-3

 

[Ivan le Fou]

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[uktabber]

Hmmmm, cheque book balance must be low over there.........

 

[TheKiwi]

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Signs Russia is running out of places to base her. The Baltic is now a NATO sea, the Black Sea is blocked off by Turkey. Which leaves the Pacific and Murmansk where she is almost certainly just as vulnerable due to her ancient and run down state.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Hmmmm, cheque book balance must be low over there.........

That kind of ship is a literal budget drain.
Maintaining, repairing, upgrading, refitting, etc... is simply not sustainable and would cost more than investing in brand new ships.

Also modern and current naval doctrines further made that kind of huge surface units pretty much irrelevant and outdated.

 

[S.B. Baramba]

Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopters from the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Northern Fleet during exercises to search for a submarine in the Barents Sea.

 

[uktabber]

Signs Russia is running out of places to base her. The Baltic is now a NATO sea, the Black Sea is blocked off by Turkey. Which leaves the Pacific and Murmansk where she is almost certainly just as vulnerable due to her ancient and run down state.

Perfect.......less is more!!!

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Izdeliye-53, the new Lancet sub-modification designed to be used in swarms.

 

[S.B. Baramba]

Msta-S SPG

 

[S.B. Baramba]

 

[S.B. Baramba]

Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the Mediterranean

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Experimental solid-propellant medium-range ballistic missile РТ-1 / 8К95.

 

[S.B. Baramba]

 

[S.B. Baramba]

PLK

 

[S.B. Baramba]

Typhoon K-53949 Linza field ambulance armoured vehicle

 

[S.B. Baramba]

 

[Unknowncommando]

Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)