"I didn't say it was a garbage scow, I said it should be hauled away as garbage."
</obscure Star Trek reference>
Posted on 12/05/2016 8:04:33 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Less than three weeks after losing a MiG-29, it looks like the Russian Navy has lost another aircraft during Admiral Kuznetsov operations: a Su-33 Flanker.
Military sources close to The Aviationist report that a Russian Navy Su-33 Flanker carrier-based multirole aircraft has crashed during flight operations from Admiral Kuznetsov on Saturday, Dec. 3.
According to the report, the combat plane crashed at its second attempt to land on the aircraft carrier in good weather conditions (visibility +10 kilometers, Sea State 4, wind at 12 knots): it seems that it missed the wires and failed to go around falling short of the bow of the warship.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaviationist.com ...
The Japan Times reports an arresting cable failure by breakage, as opposed to a miss, and the pilot, unable to go around, ejected safely.
>> the pilot, unable to go around, ejected safely.
Is there really such a thing as a safe ejection?
“. . . ejected safely.” Good.
Cable failures are always a possibility. Routine maintenance says to change them after a specified number of traps.
That thing is an ugly, floating trash pile
I recently learned that Russia does not fly any night missions in Syria because their pilots do not have sufficient night flight and night mission training. I was shocked.
Must be harder than it looks.
He ejected safely.
Landing in the water is a different question.............
$$$..........
I believe it burns coal, or maybe wood.
He ejected because Kuz nets off............
We lost two due to cables snapping...one in December 2015 and March 2016. I think several were injured in one of those.
N6 fuel oil.
"I didn't say it was a garbage scow, I said it should be hauled away as garbage."
</obscure Star Trek reference>
You sure it’s not wood or coal?
Affirmative, both.
Reports have it that the pilot was lax, violated procedure, and was unprepared for arrest failure.
This speaks to lack of experience, training, and discipline. Certainly the Russians don't have a lot of the first two in carrier operations, as they both can't yet afford carrier groups and have not previously planned to project power using carrier groups.
RIGHT?? LMAO that’s a pretty good one. It’s even got black smoke plumes like its coal-fired, but I don’t know. Just an observation of mine
The bigger factor is probably cost. To be effective at night you need GPS or laser guided bombs. Russia's fighting this war on the cheap and besides a few tests with those weapons they're sticking to dumb bombs.
I think Scotty took that remark rather personally.
Very good point.
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