Re: 2nd/3rd rate powers - LLAR - and now Africans...

At 8:51 PM +0200 8/19/02, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>
>Er... well, yes, at least if you consider five brand new 
>Rostov-class BDNs delivered straight from the spaceyards to be 
>"handmedowns"...

Were these the ones that didn't pass the quality control 
(*cough*northseanukesubfleet*cough*) exam after construction?

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