11 February 2010
new ships for the north
A couple of agencies announce that 2010 will see the construction of a new, universal atomic powered ice-breaker, with 60 MW capacity and which will patrol the NSR, May to October in the East and all year around in the West. Meanwhile, infox has a report on NASA’s photographs of shrinking Arctic ice and is concerned about the possibility that this is a unidirectional process - ’но, возможно, мы стали очевидцами необратимого и однонаправленного процесса’.
t.v.21 and apmc-tacc report on a reorganization of the submarine fleet into the ‘Red Banner Submarine Fleet’.
