In January last year, the Russian Navy brushed aside pleas from Dublin by announcing a major military exercise slap bang in the middle of Ireland’s fishing grounds. The country’s fishermen had other ideas: they refused to leave waters to the south of the country and maintained a round-the-clock presence, thus preventing the Russian warships from carrying out the drill.
Now it’s happened again. Norwegian fishermen have pulled off a similar victory against the might of the Russian Navy. Their successful efforts are a reminder that national security involves the whole of society — and that the best ideas don’t always come from the government or think tanks.
The “might” of the Russian navy isn’t all that impressive these days.
Its more like a “might sink at any moment”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident
Could be worse.
Two things I’ve learned from Drachinifel’s videos about Imperial Russia’s Navy:
The Russian navy has never been anything other than a complete and utter laughing stock
Not quite the Russian navy, but during the Cold War, I’d place the Soviet Navy pretty comfortably as the second-most-powerful navy in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Navy
Having all the ships in the world isn’t going to help you when the people operating them are incredibly incompetent