Yeah, it’s a message all right. That rusty bucket is one of Putin’s very few remaining strategic nuclear assets.I believe this is the Kazan, a Russian Yasen-M class fast attack boat. Pretty modern and fairly capable. But one of the very few modern vessels they have. Note: It’s nuclear POWERED, not armed with nuclear bombs.(though, yes, it could technically carry tactical nuclear armed cruise missiles, though it would be unlikely for that ordinance to be onboard. Conventionally armed cruise missiles are a lot more useful)
From Jim Wright’s post on FB:
Yeah, it’s a message all right. That rusty bucket is one of Putin’s very few remaining strategic nuclear assets.I believe this is the Kazan, a Russian Yasen-M class fast attack boat. Pretty modern and fairly capable. But one of the very few modern vessels they have. Note: It’s nuclear POWERED, not armed with nuclear bombs.(though, yes, it could technically carry tactical nuclear armed cruise missiles, though it would be unlikely for that ordinance to be onboard. Conventionally armed cruise missiles are a lot more useful)