5/25/2023 0 Comments Ural post apocalypticSoviet-and later Russian-authorities were never willing to risk sending Ural on an actual deployment. She was a sailing disaster magnet from the moment she entered service in December 1988. In any event, Ural never got to actually use all that high-tech gear. “Even today, 25 years after being laid down, it is very difficult to find reliable information about her construction,” the Russian publication noted. “She is equipped to quickly evaluate an enormous amount of reconnaissance data and transmit it to the national command authority.”īut exactly which radars and sensors Ural carried have never been disclosed. “The Ural could loiter for an unlimited amount of time in neutral waters without refueling in the American littoral and analyze the electromagnetic spectrum around American ICBM and strategic aviation bases,” the Russian Independent Military Review wrote in 2006. All that juice was meant to both propel the ship to a speed of 22 knots and power one of the densest, most complex arrays of radars, radios and electronic listening devices ever put to sea. Her twin nuclear reactors could, in theory, generate 171 megawatts-as much as a small civilian power plant.
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