The Wuhan pandemic and navies East and West. Ty Rogoway @Aviation_Intel
Image: The Russian Navy Udaloy-class destroyer RFS Admiral Panteleyev (BPK 548) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2012. * Public domain. Tyler Rogoway, @Aviation_Intel, The Drive at The War Zone, in re: Large, fat submarines. Think: Kursk event. Are among the quietest in Russia’s inventory. Dealing with the same Wuhan flu problems we are; had to take the sub in and put sailors into quarantine. Same for a Dutch sub. These are tighter-packed than a space ship. Russian reports are extremely opaque. Putin in yellow gear—N95 times a hundred. Deployment of Truman and Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf. One is of the two is heading to the Pacific right now. Iran initiate a conflict with the US? Yugely unlikely—despite our slight indisposition at the moment, we simply have too much power . .. .. .. * Twenty-two nations, 42 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea-lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971.