[C19fan]

33,000 tons is comparable to World War I era dreadnaughts.

[Dr. Ursus]

I guess the name Chernobyl was taken?

[redangus]

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?

[rjsimmon]

Can’t they just sprinkle some salt on it?

[Migraine]

So the Arctic is warming and they need a much more massive icebreaker ship? Yeah that makes a ton of sense.

[tbpiper]

a new icebreaker...to dominate the newly warming Arctic region

If its warming why would they need an icebreaker?

[aquila48]

Wasn’t the arctic supposed to be ice free by now?

[Rurudyne]

Lol! You don’t need a huge icebreaker to dominate seas the AGW crowd insist will be ice free!

[Red Badger]

...the country’s plans to dominate the newly warming Arctic region.

If it's 'warming' then why need an ice breaker?.............

[DesertRhino]

Mr. President! We have an icebreaker Gap! Just look on the big board

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Kommodor]

Never mind that some of their WWI era dreadnoughts had ... icebreaker bows.

[DUMBGRUNT]

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?

[moovova]

"Last darn time I ride on one of their new icebreakers..."

[Tucker39]

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.

[TXnMA]

Anyone have any ideas as to why the two big white platforms beneath the bow and stern launched with the Ural?

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[fella]

Last Summer a number of Soviet Russian Artic harbors did not open because the ice didn't melt enough.

[Secret Agent Man]

The wwii carrier my gramps was on, was slightly less than what this icebreaker weighs.

[bigbob]

Where’s the sidecar?

[PIF]

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.