Mike Plunkett
@mikeplunkett
Senior Naval Platforms Analyst with Janes and contributor to Janes Fighting Ships. Russian and Chinese warships are my speciality, but I also cover the Koreas. All opinions expressed here are mine alone. RT/Like ≠ endorsement
I mentioned this to some friends of mine, and they immediate decided that Binfeisu needed to be a Japanese movie star. The attached were generated to illustrate their point.
So it seems that Lider was once again wheeled out at IMDS 2026 in St Petersburg. I can only assume this was so the Russians could proudly tell the world that they came up with a batshit crazy and unrealistic design that will never be built long before the Americans thought of the Trump-class.
This. Fiction but claims to predictive and is unreadably awful. I gave up halfway through it. To the best of my knowledge there is still no China equivalent of Red Storm Rising. If anyone knows better then please let me know (just don't say "Ghost Fleet" as that's just as bad as this trash).