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http://www.janes.com/article/61891/kuznetsov-overhaul-designed-to-maintain-carrier-capability-while-russia-considers-future-carrier-options

Key Points
The Russian Navy appears keen to have its sole aircraft carrier returned quickly and available in good operating condition, while it waits for a future carrier
Work on Admiral Kuznetsov will be limited by both time and finances, and will entail more overhaul than modernisation as a result
Russia reportedly will begin a major overhaul and modernisation of its sole aircraft carrier, the Project 1143.5/6 Orel-class ship Admiral Kuznetsov , in the first quarter of 2017. The renovation work will commence after the carrier conducts a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea later this year.

The carrier has just completed a brief period of shipyard maintenance, and is working up in the Barents Sea for its Mediterranean deployment.

The ship has not been overhauled extensively since 1998. It has received only hull maintenance and general repairs during two- or three-month dry docking periods. The planned overhaul will be essential to keep Admiral Kuznetsov operational while Moscow considers the future design and construction of a new, larger aircraft carrier.

The renovated Admiral Kuznetsov could remain in active service for up to another 25 years. It might still be operational if and when a new carrier enters service. However, it remains unclear as to over what timeframe the Russian Navy may be able to acquire a more capable, modern carrier.

State-owned conglomerate United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) reported that it has not received the "technical task" for the long-term repair of Admiral Kuznetsov . However, the Nevskoye Design Bureau is preparing proposals and documentation for the overhaul. Nevskoye designed the carrier, and also modernised the Kiev-class carrier Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov ) for the Indian Navy.

In May 2016, a defence industry source told news agency TASS that the renovation of Admiral Kuznetsov will focus on replacing its flight deck surface, arresting gear, and other aircraft launch systems.

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Putin no seu melhor.. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has just fired his entire Baltic fleet command in what many are calling a a Stalin-like “purge.”

According to The Daily Mail, Putin fired over 50 officers -including Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and his chief of staff Rear Admiral Sergei Popov- after they allegedly refused to follow orders confronting Western ships.

Russian reports also hinted at the purges being the result of an alleged cover-up of a submarine accident, as well as sub-par military construction projects and recruitment. The Moscow Times reported that “not since Stalin’s purges had so many officers been ousted at once.”

The firings -which are occurring with size and publicity unusual for the Russian military- come at a time when other senior officers have been removed from command for poor combat training and failure to take proper care of personnel.

Putin’s firings come as a surprise to many, as his visit with the Baltic fleet in Kalingrad last year ended with him praising the performance of the fleet. However, since the stepping up of aggressive Russian displays of force against US and allied vessels over the past year, some analysts are drawing correlation between Russia’s new aggression and the sackings.

http://popularmilitary.com/putin-purges-entire-baltic-fleet-command-refusal-confront-western-ships/

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Putin no seu melhor.. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has just fired his entire Baltic fleet command in what many are calling a a Stalin-like “purge.”

According to The Daily Mail, Putin fired over 50 officers -including Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and his chief of staff Rear Admiral Sergei Popov- after they allegedly refused to follow orders confronting Western ships.

Russian reports also hinted at the purges being the result of an alleged cover-up of a submarine accident, as well as sub-par military construction projects and recruitment. The Moscow Times reported that “not since Stalin’s purges had so many officers been ousted at once.”

The firings -which are occurring with size and publicity unusual for the Russian military- come at a time when other senior officers have been removed from command for poor combat training and failure to take proper care of personnel.

Putin’s firings come as a surprise to many, as his visit with the Baltic fleet in Kalingrad last year ended with him praising the performance of the fleet. However, since the stepping up of aggressive Russian displays of force against US and allied vessels over the past year, some analysts are drawing correlation between Russia’s new aggression and the sackings.

http://popularmilitary.com/putin-purges-entire-baltic-fleet-command-refusal-confront-western-ships/

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Mais um que só vai saír do poder quando caír da cadeira!!!!!

[mafets]

Putin no seu melhor.. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has just fired his entire Baltic fleet command in what many are calling a a Stalin-like “purge.”

According to The Daily Mail, Putin fired over 50 officers -including Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and his chief of staff Rear Admiral Sergei Popov- after they allegedly refused to follow orders confronting Western ships.

Russian reports also hinted at the purges being the result of an alleged cover-up of a submarine accident, as well as sub-par military construction projects and recruitment. The Moscow Times reported that “not since Stalin’s purges had so many officers been ousted at once.”

The firings -which are occurring with size and publicity unusual for the Russian military- come at a time when other senior officers have been removed from command for poor combat training and failure to take proper care of personnel.

Putin’s firings come as a surprise to many, as his visit with the Baltic fleet in Kalingrad last year ended with him praising the performance of the fleet. However, since the stepping up of aggressive Russian displays of force against US and allied vessels over the past year, some analysts are drawing correlation between Russia’s new aggression and the sackings.

http://popularmilitary.com/putin-purges-entire-baltic-fleet-command-refusal-confront-western-ships/

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Mais um que só vai saír do poder quando caír da cadeira!!!!!

Não sei porque veio-me logo à memória as purgas estalinistas...

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Pelo menos estes 50 Oficiais não vão acabar num campo de reeducação...

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Pelo menos estes 50 Oficiais não vão acabar num campo de reeducação...

Isso não. Mas não me admirava nada que algum desses oficiais reclamasse ou viesse para a comunicação social atacar publicamente o Putin, que lhe acontecesse algum acidente grave ou fatal inexplicável!

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Pelo menos estes 50 Oficiais não vão acabar num campo de reeducação...

Desde que fiquem caladinhos. É que normalmente a malta que é opositora na Russia ao poder instituído não acaba lá com muita saúde... 

On Feb. 27, 2015, Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed in Moscow. Nemtsov had been a vocal critic of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and most recently, of the war in Ukraine. Putin condemned the killing and promised to lead the investigation into Nemtsov's death. Nemtsov was the most prominent opposition leader to be killed during Putin's presidency. The incident sparked outrage and protests, including tens of thousands marching through Moscow in the days after the assassination.

However, Nemtsov was not the first Russian opposition leader or activist to be assassinated. Here's a look at other Putin critics who have been imprisoned, exiled, or killed in recent years.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Currently living in Switzerland, Russian exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia in 2004 with an estimated $15 billion fortune. A business owner, he became extremely wealthy in the mid-1990s by taking control of several oil fields in Siberia under the company name Yukos. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested and charged with fraud. Putin's government froze Yukos' assets, causing the company's share price to collapse.

In 2005, Khodorkovsky was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. While serving his sentence, he was also found guilty of money laundry and embezzlement. The new charges extended his sentence and Khodorkovsky wrote several letters to the European Court of Human Rights. The way in which Khodorkovsky was tried and convicted attracted international attention. Many believed that his sentences were politically motivated and that he did not receive due process.

In 2013, Putin pardoned Khodorkovsky. After his release, Khodorkovsky fled Russia to Switzerland where he now lives. In 2014, Khodorkovsky relaunched Open Russia, a movement he first started in 2001. Open Russia's goal is to unite Russians in an effort to challenge Putin. As far as his future, Khodorkovsky said this to Le Monde in 2014, "I would not be interested in the idea of becoming president of Russia at a time when the country would be developing normally. But if it appeared necessary to overcome the crisis and to carry out constitutional reform, the essence of which would be to redistribute presidential powers in favor of the judiciary, parliament and civil society, then I would be ready to take on this part of the task.”

Anna Politkovskaya
A journalist and human rights activist, Politkovskaya made her name reporting on the situation in Chechnya. In 2004, she published Putin's Russia, a political commentary about modern life in Russia. In the book, she accused Putin of promoting corruption and suppressing civil liberties. Before her murder, Politkovskaya received numerous death threats. The same year that Putin's Russia was published, she became violently ill after drinking poisoned tea. Many suspected the involvement of the Soviet secret services poison laboratory.

Two years later, on Oct. 7, 2006, Putin's birthday, Politkovskaya was found dead. She had been shot four times at the entrance of her apartment in Moscow. Putin denied any involvement of the Kremlin in her killing. In 2014, five men were sent to prison for her murder, but who ordered her death remained unclear. According to Russian authorities, an unidentified man paid Lom-Ali Gaitukayev $150,000 to kill Politkovskaya because of her reporting on human rights violations and other offenses.

Alexander Litvinenko
On Nov. 1, 2006, two years after Politkovskaya fell ill from poisoning; Alexander Litvinenko was hospitalized with radioactive polonium-210 poisoning. He died 23 days later, becoming the first known victim of polonium-210 acute radiation syndrome. On 24 November 2006, a posthumous statement made by Litvinenko was released, in which he named Putin as the person behind his poisoning. Many theories surrounded Litvinenko's death, including a British investigation that had Russian Federal Protective Service (FSB) member Andrey Lugovoy as the prime suspect. The United Kingdom demanded that Lugovoy be extradited, but Russia refused, causing tension between the two countries.

Litvinenko had been an officer in the Russian FSB, where he focused on organized crime. In 1988, along with other several other FSB agents, he accused his superiors of ordering an assassination on Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested after making the accusation and charged with exceeding authority of his FSB position. Immediately after his charges were dismissed in 2000, he fled Russia for London. While in London, he wrote two books, accusing the Russian secret service of various terrorist acts as part of an effort to bring Putin to power. Litvinenko also accused Putin of ordering Politkovskaya's murder. Litvinenko still lived in London when he was poisoned. Litvinenko's widow began the Litvinenko Justice Foundation on his behalf. A public inquiry into his death began on Jan. 27, 2015.

Boris Berezovsky
On March 23, 2013, Berezovsky was found dead, hanging from a noose in his home in the United Kingdom. The coroner's office could not conclude whether his death was a suicide or not. In a phone interview, Putin said that foreign secret services could not be ruled out in having a role in Berezovsky's death. However, he said, there was no evidence of their involvement either.

A billionaire businessman, Berezovsky had opposed Putin since Putin's 2000 election. That same year, Berezovsky was ordered by the Russian Deputy Prosecutor General to appear for questioning. Instead, Berezovsky moved to the United Kingdom and was granted political asylum there by 2003. Back in Russia, he had been convicted of embezzlement and fraud. Russia wanted Berezovsky extradited. Britain refused, creating another source of tension between the two countries.

Alexei Navalny
A Russian lawyer and activist, Navalny received international attention for being a critic of Putin's and of corruption within the Russian government. He used his blog, Live Journal, to attack Putin. His description of United Russia, the ruling party, as a "party of crooks and thieves," during a radio show, became a popular phrase.

Navalny had been arrested several times and accused of charges such as embezzlement and fraud. In 2013, he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years of hard labor in prison, only to be released the next day. The following year, Navalny and his brother were prosecuted on embezzlement charges. Navalny was placed under house arrest for three and a half years, while his brother was sent to prison for the same amount of time.

Natalya Estemirova
An award-winning human rights activist, Estemirova was kidnapped at her home in Gronzy, Chechnya in July 2009. Later that day, her body was found near a village in Ingushetia. She had been shot several times. At the time of her death, she was working on human rights abuse cases in Chechnya.

European leaders were outraged over her death. Russia's Memorial Human Rights Center blamed government-backed death squads for her murder. Investigations into Estemirova's death led to militant rebel Alkhazur Bashayev as her murderer. According to the investigation, Bashayev, a member of the Islamic Jihad Union, was trying to frame the Chechen Republic leadership and was upset over Estemirova's work as an activist and writer. Many human rights activists were unsatisfied with the investigation's results, calling it a cover-up.

Anastasia Baburova, Stanislav Markelov, and Sergei Magnitsky
In Jan. 2009, human rights attorney Markelov was gunned down by a masked man in Moscow. Russian journalist Baburova was also shot and killed while trying to intervene, although investigators could not rule out the fact that she may have been a target as well. Markelov was known for his work on Russian military abuse cases in Chechnya. Just hours before the shooting, Markelov had held a press conference, opposing the early released of Col. Yury Budanov, who was in prison for strangling a Chechen teenage girl.

Magnitsky, a Russian auditor and accountant, was jailed in Moscow after his allegations that Russian officials had sanctioned and led a large-scale theft operation. Magnitsky's imprisonment received international attention, in part for human rights violations. On Nov. 16, 2009, Magnitsky died in prison after serving 358 days. He was scheduled to be released seven days later. A human rights investigation found that he hadn't received medical care for various health issues and that he had been beaten just prior to his death. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists uncovered information in 2013 that Magnitsky had linked 23 companies in his investigation to a $230 million tax fraud in Russia.

Nemtsov's assassination in Feb. 2015 was only the latest violent act against those who have opposed Putin's government. Just hours before he was killed, Nemtsov said in an interview, "Due to the policy of Vladimir Putin, a country with unparalleled potential is sinking, an economy which accumulated untold currency reserves is collapsing." According to fellow opposition leader Ilya Yashin, Nemtsov had been working on a report on the Russian military's involvement in Ukraine at the time of his death. Many believed that Putin and his government were involved in Nemtsov's assassination. Meanwhile, the Kremlin blamed his death on Russian enemies who were looking to create more political tension within Russia.

Sources: Memorial Human Rights Center, Le Monde, International Federation for Human Rights, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

http://www.infoplease.com/world/countries/russian-opposition-deaths.html

Agora aqui a questão é mais outra ou seja: 50 Oficiais que é preciso substituir de um dia para o outro. Mais umas quantas como estas e certamente que começa a faltar pessoal qualificado nas F.A. Aliás, desde 2013 que essa situação vem sendo debatida, pois continua a existir estruturas e meios humanos em falta: http://www.icds.ee/publications/article/russian-armed-forces-in-2014-a-short-term-prognosis/

Some of the funds will be spent on the increasing the level of enlisted personnel (kontraktniki) in the armed forces. The aim set by President Vladimir Putin is to have 240,000 in armed forces by the end of 2014. (The corresponding figures for 2012 and December of 2013 were 186,000 and ca 200,000 respectively.) By 2020 the number of kontraktniki should reach already 499,000 or almost half of the officially declared 1 million men strength of Russian army.

Recruiting additional personnel should help to plug the caps in the table of organization – the average manning level of armed forces units stands currently at 82 percent. The first to reach fully-manned and -staffed status by the end of 2014 should be the units of Airborne Troops, naval infantry and spetsnaz. It is doubtful, however, that the Russian authorities can meet their initial targets.

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[Cabeça de Martelo]

Uns comprimidos acalmantes à base de plutónio também são muito usados por aquelas bandas...

[NVF]

Os tais comprimidos são de polónio. Até porque uma quantidade equivalente de plutónio teria a capacidade de matar muito mais do que um simples indivíduo.

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Naval Analyses ‏@D__Mitch  Jul 4
Beautiful photo of three Steregushchy class corvettes (pr. 20381) moored alongside each other. Via World of Warships

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NEW video of the Russian Navy battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov under upgrade and extensive modernization at Sevmash shipyard. Notice the room for the P-700/SS-N-19 launchers in the 2nd pic! Video at

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Parecem é os substitutos dos Kirov 

De acordo com a agência de notícias TASS, o Ministério da Defesa russo planeja encomendar 8 destróieres de mísseis guiados com propulsão nuclear da classe “Lider” (ou “Leader”), conhecida também como Project 23560. A construção pode começar já em 2018.

Estes navios de 17.500 toneladas, 200 metros de comprimento e 20 metros de boca, serão equipados com mísseis S-500 com capacidade ABM (antimíssil balístico) e mísseis de cruzeiro Kalibr (SS-N-27), além de outras armas.

http://www.naval.com.br/blog/2016/09/16/russia-planeja-construir-8-destroieres-da-classe-lider-project-23560/

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Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov sets off on long voyage to Mediterranean Sea

SEVEROMORSK, October 15. /TASS/. The aircraft carrier task force of Russia’s Northern Fleet has started its voyage to the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, the fleet’s press service said on Saturday.

"The group consists of the aircraft-carrying heavy cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, large anti-submarine ships Severomorsk and Vice-Admiral Kulakov and support vessels," the statement said.

The goal of the voyage is "to ensure naval presence in the important areas of the World Ocean," it said. "Special focus will be made on safeguarding security of maritime traffic and other types of maritime economic activity of Russia and also on responding to the new kinds of modern threats such as piracy and international terrorism."

The previous joint voyage to the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea of the Admiral Kuznetsov and Pyotr Velikiy was completed in the first half of 2014. The current long voyage is the eighth one for the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.


More:
http://tass.com/defense/906685

[HSMW]

Os russos vêm aí!!!!!
Será que vão ser escoltados quando passarem perto da nossa costa?

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Já agora a Notícia (O rapaz vai bem armado): http://www.naval.com.br/blog/2016/10/15/admiral-kuznetsov-zarpa-rumo-a-siria/

O cruzador pesado porta-aeronaves Admiral Kuznetsov, da Frota do Norte da Federação Russa, partiu de Murmansk no sábado dia 15 de outubro acompanhado de navios de combate para o Mar Mediterrâneo na costa da Síria, informou uma fonte à agência Interfax.

“O grupo do porta-aviões” Admiral Kuznetsov “vai para uma campanha distante” – disse.

A agência observa que a campanha vai durar quatro e cinco meses. Como parte de uma ala do Admiral Kuznetsov – os últimos caças MiG-29KR e MiG-29KUBR, e também os SU-33. Além disso, ele também leva helicópteros de ataque Ka-52K Alligator.

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