Russia, Russia, Russia! What happened to you? You used to be badass! Damn, you had Ivan Drago! The man killed Apollo Creed! And now you're like our older brother who fell out of the tree onto his head and gets fed applesauce through a straw, but we still let you run the bases even through you're going in the wrong direction. Your superpower days are long-gone, and while we're all grateful for no longer living under the shadow of nuclear war (save for Skynet), we do miss your status as the bully. Case in point - according to this article from Reuters, one of your warships fired mistakenly on a small village near St. Petersburg. Russian governmental news agencies claim no one was injured, so we'll just go ahead and put the tally at "total decimation". Honestly, that's some mistake. If I found out my country just happened to lob a few artillery shells at my apartment building, I think I'd ask for a reduction on my taxes.
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My Coast Guard Cutter fired the cover of a torpedo tube across a parking lot. Coast Guard - 1, Windshield - 0. And one of our Gunner's Mates set a proximity shell wrong and we got to enjoy our own shrapnel peppering our bridge.
I love nautical oopsies.
Seriously though, I hope no one was hurt.
I love this, "The navy said no-one had been injured when a small anti-submarine ship on Thursday opened fire on a village in the Vyborg region of St Petersburg." Either that's a huge cover job, or their navy isn't much to be feared. I mean how do you "open fire on a village" and nobody gets hurt?
I do agree I sort of miss the "big bad USSR that's going to come nuke your house and kill everyone and then make your corpse a communist tool" persona of the old days. You are absolutely correct in your analogy. Even anyone disagrees go to englishrussia.com. Basically, this website shows life in Russia how it was and is nowadays. It's like they used nuclear energy for EVERYTHING and now it's all defunct and lying around. Not to mention all the stuff that no one knows about because it was super secret. Of course there's always the crazy pictures of all the ingenuity of the Russian people. I never new household items could be used in such ways.
http://www.primeportal.net/images/iraq/m109/Palidan%20Tank.jpg
That is a Picture of an M-109 Paladin Mobile artillery cannon. it fires a 155mm shell out to a range of 30,000 meters, within 1 meter accuracy.
Picture the hydraulics around the barrel failing when it is fired, and the barrel rocketing out the back hatch, across a parking lot, and into the side of a building.
Not a pretty sight, i should know, because it went right through the side of my building in Iraq. Luckily i was on guard at the time.
I really need to stop posting when I'm starting "happy hour." I guess dirty gin martinis make for bad grammar. I swear I'm literate.