Posted on 04/13/2022 6:18:38 PM PDT by marktwain
Should be: To the brave sailors on the Moskva, and the brave defenders of Ukraine.
Well said!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQQ9YuEagAIuvW_?format=jpg&name=medium
here’s a pic of it smoking, and burning before sinking
It’s not our war.
I agree.
Ukraine would be more than justified to sink every Russian ship operating in the black sea.
Think so?
I’ll bet you $10,000 cash. Right now.
I don’t think that’s the same ship. I’d be surprised if I’m wrong
That pic is the Iranian navy ship Khark that sank last year. If we get any pics, they will have to come from Russia, so we probably won’t see any. I suspect the Moskva has already sunk.
There’s a Robert Service involved with this, no? I had thought about a takeoff on “Dangerous Dan McGrew” but I’m a lousy poet.
There’s another post now saying the Moskva has been destroyed.
So that escalated nicely.
As much as I don’t mind seeing the Russians get their noses bloodied, I take no joy in young men on a burning ship. If it were them or me, I would rather it would be them.
A good book that well describes the violence of naval warfare is “Neptune’s Inferno” by James Hornfischer dealing with the naval battles around the Solomon Islands in the second half of 1942 when the US and Japanese fleets still had a degree of parity.
Our orbiting sensors are pretty good, and not just ours.
Those images are likely classified...
It caught fire, so it must have been hit by missiles.
/s
Exactly. This is such a stupid war, and I believe the "Biden" administration, whoever is running it, egged Putin on, thinking it would be just a little "Wag the Dog" they needed to keep power.
“… I suspect the Moskva has already sunk.”
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Since the Russians have reportedly said the ship’s sailors have now all been evacuated it’s probably safe to say it likely has sunk or, if not, is “totaled”.
I’m hearing Moscow admits a ‘small fire’ broke out on the ship, and the crew has abandoned ship… unbelievable … I was a flag ship sailor
The chances of that do increase when you're at war, and sailing in a war zone.
Get spotted by a drone in range of a cruise missile that is directed by inertial navigation and active radar homing for the terminal phase and the odds of a fire go up substantially.
Ain't war hell?
“Those images are likely classified... “
I can’t believe how good the PUBLIC satellite imagery is now. And timely.
People would have killed for this 40 years ago. Literally.
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