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7/9/2013 12:00:05 AM
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My first thought?
USS Cole.
While a floating and relocatable power station is a nice idea, securing access and a perimeter would be difficult. Almost an invitation to attack.
Land based reactors can create large expanse of open ground and reinforced perimeters to both prevent and detect hostile approaches. In a harbor? Not so easy.
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Russia has a competent navy, it isn't quite as hard as you make it out to be.
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But putting a target in a harbor (where attacks or infiltration can occur on the surface, above AND below it) is inherently less secure than a land-based reactor with a large "no-mans-land" surrounding it.
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I understand what you mean, but Russia has one of the best navies in the world, so they can secure any harbor they want to with relative ease. I think Russia wants to build a few of these, and move them around to power coastal area that if say here in Florida(example, don't think this will happen IRL), if Florida got hit by a major hurricane, one of these could be floated over (in advance, to say a port in Georgia) and after the hurricane, one of these can be use to float over and provide power and water to the areas affected by the hurricane. This is just speculation on how it can be used, though it would cost a lot.
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There is NO way that the Russian Navy would be allowed to "secure a US port". This floating reactor is intended for export and sale, meaning that the purchasing nation will need to secure the reactor/harbor. Ships at port are easier targets than ships at sea. There is so much traffic on land and in the harbor, that it would essentially "close the port" to all traffic if one were to even TRY to attempt to secure it, and even then, it's sitting there and open to approach.
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I mean that the US has one, not that Russia is coming in and taking control of US ports. I never said that. And this is really only an issue if they country operating it doesn't have a competent navy. Countries like China, UK, US, Russia would be fine with securing one of these somewhere. But yeah, it is too impractical to use for something other than simple an off-shore power source.
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and Russia has underwater divers with [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APS_underwater_rifle]flechette Kalashnikovs[/url]..what could go wrong :lol:
