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Old 26th Jan 2008, 08:59
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JFZ90
 
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Quick question - its obviously a long way from russia to the bay of biscay round the top of britain and down. How do the russians preplan for the potential 'loss' of say a blackjack on route, where perhaps a mech problem would require the crew to eject, say 200 miles of the coast of Ireland? Obviously if there is a problem near the russian fleet then they could send Kamovs or whatever for Air-Sea rescue, but over the distances involved there must be big stretches of the route that don't have russian air-sea rescue cover, or do they do this another way (i.e. with other russian ships or trawlers on-route so they are always covered by their own forces and don't need to call out Bristow or our coastguard?).
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