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Does Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Have A Death Wish?
19FortyFive ^ | 8/1/2021 | Mark Episkopos

Posted on 08/01/2021 8:23:06 AM PDT by Onthebrink

Kuznetsov was introduced in 1991, but did not become fully operational until the mid 1990s. Despite suffering several problems involving arguable degrees of human error, the carrier served largely uneventfully through the mid-2010s. It was not until Russia’s 2016 Syrian campaign that the Western world was offered its first glimpse into Kuznetsov’s numerous problems, with the carrier crashing two fighters within less than three weeks of one another.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: blog; blogpimp; crapblog; navy; poswebsite; russia; russianmilitary; usnavy
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1 posted on 08/01/2021 8:23:06 AM PDT by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

What a POS website you linked too.


2 posted on 08/01/2021 8:26:24 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Onthebrink
Look at the bright side. The carrier is oil fueled, not nuclear powered.

When it goes down, the ecological impact will be minimal and localized.

3 posted on 08/01/2021 8:35:13 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Newbomb Turk

It’s more Wordpress garbage created by people that are clueless.


4 posted on 08/01/2021 8:37:29 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

I am not going to that website, but I am fully aware of the shortcomings of that vessel.

I have never been a fan of Soviet/Russian hardware, especially not naval hardware, but I never took it lightly.

Even incompetent or poor designs can get lucky.


5 posted on 08/01/2021 8:38:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

What a POS website you linked too.


He has a stake of some sort in the site he told me, which must be why he spams rehashed, plagiarized, misleading, deceptive military info


6 posted on 08/01/2021 8:40:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Onthebrink

Wasn’t this the one with the smoke stack, belching out like some 1920’s steam ship?


7 posted on 08/01/2021 9:15:14 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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You could see it coming well over the horizon. We came close enough on our CG to see them conducting flight ops - their flight deck crew were wearing shorts, flip-flops and many were smoking cigarettes.


8 posted on 08/01/2021 9:23:22 AM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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“smoking cigarettes”

Maybe their planes actually run on diesal so no risk of igniting the fuel lol


9 posted on 08/01/2021 9:31:11 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: GreyHoundSailor

That’s ok ours will be wearing srelletos, and mini skirts to show their pride.


10 posted on 08/01/2021 9:31:13 AM PDT by chuckb87
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To: Onthebrink

I like the site, thanks for the article link : )


11 posted on 08/01/2021 9:34:45 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Onthebrink

It belches smoke like a ship from the Great White Fleet days.


12 posted on 08/01/2021 9:45:56 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BiglyCommentary
Wasn’t this the one with the smoke stack, belching out like some 1920’s steam ship?

Like this one?


13 posted on 08/01/2021 9:49:54 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Onthebrink

Gee,I wonder if John McCain was training some Russian pilots? (sic)


14 posted on 08/01/2021 10:04:42 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Onthebrink
It was not until Russia’s 2016 Syrian campaign that the Western world was offered its first glimpse into Kuznetsov’s numerous problems, with the carrier crashing two fighters within less than three weeks of one another.

So it was the carrier, not the pilots?

15 posted on 08/01/2021 10:08:51 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Newbomb Turk
Fill me in...I can understanding not liking it because it has the annoying pop ups and regular ads all over the page, and it not being an established, officially recognized website...

But what are the big issues people here have with it? DO they copy/paste other people's work? Do they make up stuff?

16 posted on 08/01/2021 11:35:55 AM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Onthebrink
My guess is that carriers are a distraction, nowadays, and that Russia and China will not use them for their front line/attack force, anyway, since hypersonic/supercavitating missiles may make these a deathtrap. (even though we can't seem to make hypersonic/supercavitating missiles, for some reason.)

Only the US seems to play the last 3 conflicts out the same way: Send the carriers to countries that do not have a navy, get the planes to bomb in the same old way since 1990, and then send in troops to sacrifice themselves to the gods of ROE instead of nuking the bastards, including every man woman and child in the general vicinity.

The next war will be bioweapons released on the stupid fatass mongrel population left in the US after the Great Vaccine Deaths of 2021, (Bonus fentanyl in the water) and then wait 5 years. Split the country between Russia and China, then possibly fight over that 10-20 years down the line. We will be long gone by then.

17 posted on 08/01/2021 11:43:31 AM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Onthebrink
I don't want to rub it in too much, but here's a couple of LMAO from the article:

"Russia’s Defense Ministry signed a refit and modernization contract for Kuznetsov in late 2017, but those plans were cut short in the following year when a 70-ton crane smashed through the ship’s hull and caused its PD-50 drydock to sink."

"Then there is the PD-50 itself, which reportedly sustained catastrophic damage during the incident. There were several options available to the military following the drydock disaster, none of them cheap or fast."

And finally:

" But then, things took a truly vaudevillian turn: Kuznetsov caught fire. In December 2019, a fire broke out aboard the ship after a power cable reportedly exploded during routine welding work."

18 posted on 08/01/2021 12:35:53 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Onthebrink

I’m surprised the thing is still floating.


19 posted on 08/01/2021 11:43:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Yeah I noticed that too.


20 posted on 08/01/2021 11:51:14 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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