Posted on 05/29/2019 9:24:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Russias state nuclear agency has launched a new icebreaker, Ural, as part of the countrys plans to dominate the newly warming Arctic region. The nuclear-powered ship is one of three new icebreakers commissioned by Moscow to navigate waters choked with sea ice and smash its way through if necessary.
The ship, Ural, is the third in the class of three Project 22220 icebreakers. The ship was constructed by the Baltic Shipyards of St. Petersburg and will be handed over to Rosatom, Russias nuclear agency, in 2021. The Project 22220 ships are 173 meters (567 feet) long and 34 meters (111 feet) wide, making them the largest icebreakers ever constructed. The ships displace a massive 33,000 tons, likely due to large ballast tanks built inside the ship that allow it to ride higher or lower in the water as necessary.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
I guess the name Chernobyl was taken?
If the Artic is warming can we assume the ice is melting on it’s own. So why do we need three bemouth icebreakers to plow through the ice choked waters?
Can’t they just sprinkle some salt on it?
If the Arctic is warming can we assume the ice is melting on its own. So why do we need three behemoth icebreakers to plow through the ice choked waters? <
This article is - among other things - Global Warming propaganda. You are not permitted to question Global Warming propaganda.
“If the Arctic is warming can we assume the ice is melting on its own. So why do we need three behemoth icebreakers to plow through the ice choked waters?”
Because the Russians don’t think the ice is going to be melting. I actually listened to three lectures from their Arctic Institute and they think the ice is going to be thickening, that’s why they’re building ice breakers to keep their northern shipping routes open. The article is misleading.
So the Arctic is warming and they need a much more massive icebreaker ship? Yeah that makes a ton of sense.
You beat me by 2.5 min.
If its warming why would they need an icebreaker?
Wasn’t the arctic supposed to be ice free by now?
Redundant question on my part.
Lol! You don’t need a huge icebreaker to dominate seas the AGW crowd insist will be ice free!
If it's 'warming' then why need an ice breaker?.............
Thus spake ‘Saint AL of Gorelandia’
Mr. President! We have an icebreaker Gap! Just look on the big board
Bingo!!!...WE have a WINNER!!!!
LOL, just reading that, I have George C. Scott’s face in my mind exactly...:)
Too funny!
*ping*
“newly warming”
Lying Democrat scum.
Never mind that some of their WWI era dreadnoughts had ... icebreaker bows.
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