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Russia said on Monday it had successfully tested a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has touted as part of a new generation of missile systems without equal in the world.
[...] Russia's Defence Ministry said the Tsirkon missile was launched from the Admiral Groshkov frigate in the White Sea.
The Ministry said the missile flew at seven times the speed of sound and successfully hit a target more than 350 kilometres away on the coast of the Barents Sea.
[...] Mr Putin has said Tsirkon would be capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of 1,000 kilometres.
[...] The Russian navy has conducted several previous test launches of the new missile, including one on Mr Putin's birthday in October, and officials said the tests were to be completed later this year.
Russia intends to arm its cruisers, frigates and submarines with the Tsirkon, one of several hypersonic missiles under development in Russia.
Previously:
Russia Successfully Tests New Hypersonic Tsirkon Missile.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:23AM (3 children)
Ah, I see yer problem, the units were converted from oblique sazhens to berkovets and so a conversion error of about three crept in.
BTW did you know the metric system was actually invented by a little-known Russian genius Ivan Gopnik fifty years before everyone else knew about it? Russians invented a lot of stuff before everyone else, but no-one knows about it.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:40AM (2 children)
While you're joking, maybe you'll actually want to learn something. Ваня Гопник would not have an actual last name like that. Ivan is the long version of Vanya, and a male last name, would be Gopnikov. Vanya can also be a woman's first name, and the last name would be Gopnikova. In neither case would the last name be Gopnik, because that would be grammatically incorrect. And it's a real last name. Here's someone with the first and last name you note.
https://twitter.com/gopnikov_ivan [twitter.com]
The difference is, the accent is on the "i", while the noun gopnik would have the accent on the "o." So while you think this is a clever joke, it only works if you completely bastardize the language. In addition, in the noun gopnik, the "o" is pronounced "o," while in the name Gopnikov, the o is pronounced "aa." So to anyone who actually knows the language, it just sounds retarded. Mostly because the two words sound nothing alike.
Here, let me make an English joke like yours and you tell me if it's funny:
Mike wanted to lead an expedition to the amazon. He could never do it, because lead was too heavy for him to lift.
Now let's have an actual funny joke with names, and on topic. You do need to speak French to get it though.
Gabriel Mouton invented the metric system. The rest of the world followed, except the US, because we're not a bunch of sheep.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:53AM (1 child)
Yeah, my Russian is pretty erratic, it was actually a reference to the DJ Blyatman song [youtube.com]. And the Mike joke is funny, it's a classic antijoke, like "What has six legs and goes out? John and his table".
Thanks for the tutorial :-).
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:15AM
You no vat Morty, the Mike joke is funny now that it's had thyme to marinate. In the Marina marinade. Marina Gopnikova. Like the cucumber she turned into a pickle when she couldn't find her a Gopnikov. Because gopniks aren't very clean people, so Marina don't wash the marina. That nappy dugout gets so nasty she grows marinated mushrooms - a classic Russian dish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptcp_xtQhbs [youtube.com]
I wonder if English-speaking Russians would get mike joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw [youtube.com]