Jeez, Blast! Here it is again. Somethin', somethin', somethin', this 38-year-old Russian fertilizer king just built himself a $300 million dollar yacht designed, in part, to fend off pirates and other armed yachts of other oligarchs. Read and SEE more here, if you can stomach it.

Anyone else think that hull is reminiscent of WW2 subs?

Fun looking boat though.

Yes! Made me daydream about torpedo tubes.

That knife-edge bow reminds me of the Nautilus submarine from the movie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

I was half-expecting to read that it had a radar-absorbing/deflecting coating. Gotta keep those pirate mother ships guessing, y'know.

Aw crap, I hit "edit" rather than "reply" and accidently nuked your post. :-(
Can you repost the information?

Really, really sorry.
-Blast

Okay. I re-edited my original post with a close approximation of what I remember it to be.

Pretty slick. How much you wanna bet he cruises around Somalia just to tease the pirates.

How much ya' wanna bet he and his security staff can return fire with weapons and training better than the Somali pirates also.....

Was watching a 60 minutes episode about the Russian billionaire who's buying an NBA team and among his many toys was a custom made spesnaz rifle. I imagine Russian billionaires have access to just about any weapon made. So yeah, they probably have a mini-arsenal on board.

Although "Somali pirates" make for interesting reading, I wouldn't be surprised if all that security were for more sinister threats. You don't become a Russian billionaire by being a boy scout. I would put assassinations, kidnapping, espionage, etc. higher on the list of threats to this guy.