Thread: Russian Carrier Plans Part One
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Old December 2nd 07, 04:25 PM posted to sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military.naval
Fred J. McCall
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Default Russian Carrier Plans Part One
(Richard Casady) wrote:

:On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:04:28 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote:
:
:Don't tell them that. They go in and out of there year round. I've
:been up there in October and November and it all looked pretty ice
:free from what I could see.
:
oesn't Murmansk benefit from the last of the Gulf Stream?
:

Exactly. The flow breaks up over the top of Scandinavia and Murmansk
gets benefit from that. The water isn't warm, but it isn't frozen.

It's why Murmansk stays open in the winter while Archangel, which is
much further south, ices in.


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