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Meet 'Ural,' Russia's New Nuclear-Powered Icebreaking Behemoth
Popular Mechanics ^
| May 28, 2019
| Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 05/29/2019 9:24:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Now, this is an Ural icebreaker!!!
Yes, Ruskie, in action!
Note: the outboard side is driven!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9gBNlgkpw
I’d trade my airhead 650 for this in a heartbeat!
(Same mother, different brother)Kind of a bastard child?
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posted on
05/29/2019 10:24:17 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
To: C19fan
"Last darn time I ride on one of their new icebreakers..."
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posted on
05/29/2019 10:27:19 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: C19fan
Seems odd that the prow has no “edge” to it at all. Instead, it is pretty much a hemisphere, which would indicate that rather than “cutting” and powering through the ice, and pushing it away to both sides, this thing will belly up on to the ice and break it down by sheer force of the vessel’s weight. I see no provision for pushing the broken ice to each side, so that a conventional ship would have a path to follow. I hope they TESTED the concept before spending all those rubles.
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posted on
05/29/2019 10:39:28 AM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: C19fan; All
Anyone have any ideas as to why the two big white platforms beneath the bow and stern
launched with the Ural?
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posted on
05/29/2019 10:48:06 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
(Paraphrasing Adm. Farragut: "Damn the whines for 'impeachment'! Full speed ahead!")
To: TXnMA
Probably the same reason the image is mirrored?
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posted on
05/29/2019 10:57:51 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: Tucker39; C19fan
"Seems odd that the prow has no edge to it at all." 'Appears to have an "edge" to me:
And it's "classmate", "Yamal"'s appears to be well--used:
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posted on
05/29/2019 11:04:33 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
(Paraphrasing Adm. Farragut: "Damn the whines for 'impeachment'! Full speed ahead!")
To: Tucker39
They build this way since 1950s and it proved the most efficient. Look at any nuclear breaker since Lenin class.
To: null and void
"Probably the same reason the image is mirrored?" Hope you were joking, Nully... '-)
Image flips during publishing happen frequently; doesn't change the fact that the Ural is afloat -- with this platform...
...and the aft platform...
...still attached.
Why did they do that?
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posted on
05/29/2019 11:32:00 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
(Paraphrasing Adm. Farragut: "Damn the whines for 'impeachment'! Full speed ahead!")
To: TXnMA
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posted on
05/29/2019 11:49:22 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: Leaning Right
I subscribed to PopSci from the time I was about 7. I quit when it became an environmental and globull warming rag. Ditto with Natgeo.
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posted on
05/29/2019 11:51:49 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
To: C19fan
Quit reading here:
“The Ural, and its two sister ships, are each powered by two RITM-200 icebreakers generating a total of 350 megawatts.”
The author or the proof reader does not have a single clue about the subject.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:02:18 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
To: C19fan
Last Summer a number of Soviet Russian Artic harbors did not open because the ice didn't melt enough.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:18:39 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: C19fan
The wwii carrier my gramps was on, was slightly less than what this icebreaker weighs.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:01:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: TXnMA
I’d guess it’s some sort of system that hauls the boat in and out of drydock from deep water.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:28:58 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
To: Tucker39
Our USCG Polar Class Icebreakers work on that exact concept, and the props are actually designed to mill the ice through them.
The dynamic is called ‘dolphining’. You dolphin up onto the ice, crush it under the load of the ship, and then mill the ice through the prop.
Normally, we’d use the fuel as the weight. You get to 60 percent fuel capacity and you are too light to dolphin, let alone back and ram.
The Russians went nuclear, because every nuclear asset produces plutonium, and plutonium is worth $5,000 a gram.
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/29/2019 2:07:07 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: TXnMA
I meant down at the keel, like the black one has. The front end of the new nuke icebreaker is rounded and has no “crease” in it.
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posted on
05/29/2019 2:42:02 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: RinaseaofDs
Our USCG Polar Class Icebreakers we have only one heavy operational which is held together with wire and duct tape until after 2024 when the new ones should be ready.
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posted on
05/29/2019 3:50:08 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: C19fan
Don’t get excited ... our new ones due 2024 are the same displacement, but not nuclear, and likely lack the swimming pool and sauna found on most Russian nuke breakers.
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posted on
05/29/2019 3:55:03 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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