The Russians are coming!!

Steyr

Just a heads up for anyone that might be around the Dublin port area on Fri as this will be arriving around 10am...

03/07/2009
10:00 Warship SEVEROMORSK (RUSSIAN NAVY) Navy Vessel Ocean Pier 37.

marco murphy

Thanks for the heads up!

senordingdong

Cool.

I'd love to see this.
Any idea what part of the port it will be at and what sort of facilities (tours etc...) will be on offer?

citizen_p

i dont think their will be tours.. ? will there?

not if its on active service.
it,d just be resupply and a day or two of leave for the men

senordingdong

****.

Would have liked to get a look inside.

Morlar

Cool, if it is there for a day or two I might head along on saturday.

diverdriver

I wonder if there will be anti war protestors there? Oh wait, it's not American is it? Russians don't start wars do they?

marco murphy

diverdriver wrote: »

I wonder if there will be anti war protestors there? Oh wait, it's not American is it? Russians don't start wars do they?

What wars have the Russians started, as a matter of interest

Dozen Wicked Words

Perestroika wrote: »

What wars have the Russians started, as a matter of interest

The winter war in 1939 with Finland.

Manach

The recent one with Georgia (though it might be debatable which side started it initially)

Dozen Wicked Words

? The Chechen War, but maybe as per South Ossetia War not clear cut.

iceage

dooferoaks wrote: »

The winter war in 1939 with Finland.

Wasn't there a famous quote by a Finnish Soldier, "They are so many and we are a small Country...Where will we bury them all"

Handed the Russians they're asses.

andybdub

Stock up on your vodka now for wkend b4 they arrive.
Eat bottle **** glass!!!

Cool boat i want one

Scrambled egg

Afganistan anybody?

marco murphy

dooferoaks wrote: »

The winter war in 1939 with Finland.

The USSR and Finland were involved in that war.

Manach wrote: »

The recent one with Georgia (though it might be debatable which side started it initially)

Georgia did, and continue to lay down nasty rhetoric.

Scrambled egg wrote: »

Afganistan anybody?

Again, Soviet Union, at the request of the government.

So I guess there are questions as to why anti-war protesters aren't organising to protest against the foreign policy of a country that doesn't exist anymore

Dozen Wicked Words

LOL

How about:
Russian Conquest of Kazan, 1552
Russian Conquest of Astrakhan, 1554-1556
Russo-Polish Wars, 1563-1582

There is a fcuk off great list here:
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/russia/milxrussianempire.html

Quietly confident the Russians started a few of them.

marco murphy

1552 NOT FORGOTTEN - END WAR CRIMES

tenandtracer

senordingdong wrote: »

Any idea what part of the port it will be at ?

pier 37 in Alexandra Basin East

LeoB

Steyr wrote: »

Just a heads up for anyone that might be around the Dublin port area on Fri as this will be arriving around 10am...

03/07/2009
10:00 Warship SEVEROMORSK (RUSSIAN NAVY) Navy Vessel Ocean Pier

There is a great oppertunity for photographs at the Skerries 1oo motorbike races this week end. Practise on Friday from 6p.m. and some brilliant races on Saturday from about noon.

There will be over 30,000 spectators

Tabnabs

It's just approaching the entrance to Dublin port now. Very foreboding looking ship :eek:

Not the one in the picture BTW. The SEVEROMORSK is 619.

SHIP YARD COMMISSION FLEET
619 SEVEROMORSK #820 Yantar Kaliningrad 30.12.1987 NOR

Laid: 12.06.84. Udaloy-8. Ex-Simferopol(1996); ex-Marshal Budennyy; active Northern Fleet. 1.5.1988 entered NOR. 16 -20.7.1991 visited Mayport (USA). Refit in June 1998 completing in late 2001, changed all 4 engines. Participating in Kursk salvage operation, Aug 2001. 07.2007 took part in exercises in NOR. 2007 commander: capt 1 rank Anton Speransky. 07.2007 visited by Kineshma delegation. 08-09.2007 visited UK. 05.2008 sea exercises with officers of Military Academy of GS aboard. 07.2008 patrol in Arctics, exercises with USN "North Eagle-2008". 09.2008 Stabilnost'-2008 exercises. 06.2009 FRUKUS-2009, visited Brest.

http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1742&catid=269

FiSe

Every war was started by the Soviets

the Russians are the good ones and always were, just only occasionaly, they turn off the oil tap to prove it :P

senordingdong

Tbh, without it being open to public boardings, I'm not all that interested in going down just to get a picture of it.

marco murphy

Ah bollocks. Went down with some mates, a long walk. Went right up to the end of the docks and caught a glimpse of it. Got directions to it to be told "you can't come near it".

They must have got word of the protest I had planned.

Sailors all over the town too!

senordingdong

So they're allowed walk all over our city and we're not allowed onto their poxy little boat.
*****.

Overheal

diverdriver wrote: »

I wonder if there will be anti war protestors there? Oh wait, it's not American is it? Russians don't start wars do they?

Didnt they recently invade Georgia...

Victor

Dyflin wrote: »

Not the one in the picture BTW. The SEVEROMORSK is 619.

They systematicly change hull numbers on an annual basis.

Overheal

Victor wrote: »

They systematicly change hull numbers on an annual basis.

Im sure theres an interesting security precedent there.

Manic Moran

Overheal wrote: »

Didnt they recently invade Georgia...

The Georgians started that one. Bloody rednecks.

They systematicly change hull numbers on an annual basis.

The Soviets used to do that, but did the Russian navy keep that up? After all, the paint and all the paperwork costs money...

NTM

cushtac

senordingdong wrote: »

So they're allowed walk all over our city and we're not allowed onto their poxy little boat.

It's where they live, there's no god-given right to see the inside of it.

senordingdong

cushtac wrote: »

It's where they live, there's no god-given right to see the inside of it.

Living there or not, it's still abit rich if you ask me.

cushtac

senordingdong wrote: »

Living there or not, it's still abit rich if you ask me.

So can I come in to your gaff & poke around, seeing as you walk around Dublin like these sailors?

What makes you think you've the right to have a look around a ship that belongs to another country?

Tabnabs

Victor wrote: »

They systematicly change hull numbers on an annual basis.

It seems the Severomorsk didn't get that memo, here she is in 2007 also as 619

Steyr

Look what she was carrying!!


http://www.worldairpics.com/photo/1031596/L/Kamov-Ka-27PS-Helix/54-Red/Russian-Navy/?&sid=&sp=

MrPirate

Manic Moran wrote: »

The Georgians started that one. Bloody rednecks.

I lol'd hard and went "if only".
Thank you.

marco murphy

MrPirate wrote: »

I lol'd hard and went "if only".
Thank you.

They have a better chance seeing the inside of the ship that we do, with all that were captured during the short conflict.

senordingdong

cushtac wrote: »

So can I come in to your gaff & poke around, seeing as you walk around Dublin like these sailors?

What makes you think you've the right to have a look around a ship that belongs to another country?

Seems fair.

cushtac

senordingdong wrote: »

Seems fair.

Sound, post your address so.