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Originally Posted by shrike6
I gotta admit I'm curious about the Soviet Aircraft Carriers. Not so much the Helicarriers like the Moskva but the Kievs, Kuznetsovs and possibly Ulyanovsk. Have they already been sunk or are they up to something?
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Most of the Northern Fleet units were sunk in the Battle of the Norwegian Sea... only Baku survives, and she does so only because she was transferred to the Pacific in 1996 to aid in the war in China. Tblisi and Kiev went down in December 96 in the Norwegian Sea. Minsk and Novorossisk (the other two Kievs) are in the Pacific, as is Tblisi's sister Varyag. Ulyanovsk, the nuclear-powered carrier, is trapped in the Black Sea - she was doing workups still when the Turks closed the Bosporus under the Montreux Convention.
You'll have to stay tuned for what happens in the Pacific!!!
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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