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"NARRATED BY RICHARD BASEHART, THIS DOCUMENTARY
TRACES THE
RISE OF SOVIET SEAPOWER FROM THE IMPERIAL NAVY OF THE CZAR TO
TODAY'S WELL-COORDINATED
OCEAN FORCE."
US Navy film MN-10390
Public domain film from the
National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
Split with MKVmerge
GUI (part of MKVToolNix), the same software can recombine the downloaded parts (in mp4 format): http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html
part 1: http://youtu.be/d_-ydsZj2KE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Navy
The Soviet Navy (
Russian: Военно-морской флот
СССР, Voenno-morskoj flot
SSSR, literally "
Military Maritime Fleet of the
USSR") was the naval arm of the
Soviet Armed Forces.
Often referred to as the
Red Fleet, the
Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a
Warsaw Pact war with
NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the
Atlantic Ocean from
North America to
Western Europe.
The Soviet Navy was divided into four major fleets: the
Northern, Pacific,
Black Sea, and
Baltic Fleets; under separate command was the
Leningrad Naval Base. The
Caspian Flotilla was a smaller force operating in the land-locked
Caspian Sea. The
5th Operational Squadron in the
Mediterranean drew its units from the Black Sea, Baltic, and
Northern Fleets; the
Indian Ocean Squadron primarily from the
Pacific Fleet. Other components included
Naval Aviation,
Naval Infantry (the
Soviet equivalent of marines), and
Coastal Artillery.
According to a
1980 Time article citing analysts from
RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy,
Strategic Rocket Forces and the
Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities. However, this assertion is contradicted by numerous ethnic surnames among the admirals of the Soviet Navy and
Generals of the
Soviet Army.
Most of the Soviet Navy was reformed into the
Russian Navy after the dissolution of the
Soviet Union in
1991.
The Soviet Navy was based on a republican naval force formed from the remnants of the
Imperial Russian Navy, which had been almost completely destroyed in the
Revolution of 1917, the
Russian civil war, and the
Kronstadt rebellion...
In
February 1946 the Red Fleet was renamed the Soviet Navy (Russian: Советский Военно-Морской Флот, Sovyetsky Voyenno-Morskoy Flot), literally the
Soviet Military Maritime Fleet.
After the war, the
Soviets concluded that they needed to be able to compete with the
Western powers at all costs, and began a program to achieve parity...
Although the Soviet Union's wartime naval commander-in-chief,
Admiral Kuznetsov, actively promoted the building of aircraft carriers after the war,
Communist Party ideology termed them "instruments of capitalist imperial aggression" and accordingly deemed them unsuitable for the USSR...
The Soviet Navy still had the mission of confronting
Western submarines, creating a need for large surface vessels to carry anti-submarine helicopters. During
1968 and
1969 the Moskva-class helicopter carriers were first deployed, succeeded by the first of four aircraft-carrying cruisers of the
Kiev class in
1973. Both of these types were capable of operating
ASW helicopters, and the Kiev class also operated V/
STOL aircraft (e.g. the
Yak-38 'Forger'); they were designed to operate for fleet defense, primarily within range of land-based
Soviet Naval Aviation aircraft
.
...It was during the
1980s that the Soviet Navy acquired its first true aircraft carrier,
Tbilisi, subsequently renamed
Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
Kuznetsov, which carries
Sukhoi Su-33 'Flanker-D' and MiG-29 fighters, and
Ka-27 helicopters...
Due to the USSR's geographic position, submarines were considered the capital ships of the Navy...
In some respects, including speed and reactor technology, Soviet submarines achieved unique successes, but for most of the era lagged their Western counterparts in overall capability. In addition to their relatively high speeds and great operating depths they were difficult
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) targets to destroy because of their multiple compartments, their large reserve buoyancy, and especially their double-hulled design. Their principal shortcomings were insufficient noise damping (
American boats were quieter) and primitive sonar technology...
- published: 02 May 2012
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