Posted on 04/13/2022 12:14:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Russian navy cruiser Moskva by far is the most powerful warship in the Black Sea. If Russian President Vladimir Putin orders his troops to widen their war in Ukraine, Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, undoubtedly would lead the naval assault.
Think of Moskva as a 12,500-ton, 612-foot mobile missile battery with nearly 500 people aboard. She packs enough anti-ship missiles to wipe out the entire Ukrainian navy and enough air-defense missiles to swat away any conceivable aerial attack on the Black Sea Fleet’s amphibious flotilla.
Moskva’s value to a Ukraine operation could make her a top target of Ukraine’s missileers.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Moskva, meet Harpoon.
Neptune. Two of them...
I doubt it would have much an effect.
But, the newer Russian subs nicknamed the “black hole” by our navy is another matter.
Wow - sounds about as unsinkable as the Bismarck!
Laid down in 1976.
Moskva, meet Neptunes. LOL!
Where are the Harpoons ?
April 10:
Russian Project 1164 Atlant class guided missile cruiser Moskva spotted near Sevastapol
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1513178405864357895
2 Neptunes work just as well.
She just had an “accident”.
“The Russian navy cruiser Moskva by far is the most powerful warship in the Black Sea.”
Only because no other power in the world actually cares to possess the Black Sea anymore. Well, maybe the Turks still care, if you can consider them a power.
I don’t think the Russian navy has kept up. Moskva probably doesn’t have enough genderfluid crew to be fully battleworthy.
The problem is not the “conceivable” attacks; the real problem is the attack you dismissed as “inconceivable”.
The Putinistas will say Moskva’s sinking today was just a “feint”.
Not too long from now there will be lots of colorful fish swimming around that ship.
Russian warship, go sink yourself!
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