Posted on 09/24/2024 7:32:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
VLADIMIR Putin's cursed naval flagship is unlikely to ever sail again after he sent its crew to fight in the war in Ukraine.
The Admiral Kuznetsov is the tyrant's only aircraft carrier and has not been in service for eight years.
Desperate Vlad has now designated some of the rustbucket's 1,500 crew members as cannon fodder for his brutal invasion.
The seamen have formed a land-based "frigate" battalion within Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army, according to OSINT investigator Moklasen.
Some of them have already gone missing or died, Forbes reported.
Putin had wanted the 305-metre-long Soviet-era warship to play a role in the war but the accident-prone vessel with up to 2,000 crew will sink if it sails again.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
” He’s hanging on waiting for Trump to order Zelensky to the negotiating table.”
On the other side of that coin, Zelensky is holding out for the USA to get in the fight for them.
As long as the Constitution’s first words are “We the Servants of Burisma” then the officials all need to obey this law. X̌
During his time in the navy, he was onboard the USS America on its last tour when the Kuznetsov sailed to the Mediterranean in 1995. TLDR, the Kuznetsov was hastily and badly built due to economic needs and was and still is barely functional. She uses Mazut fuel oil, without preheating so the ship produces smoke that is visible from miles away and gets in everywhere onboard. The ship has power outages, lack of heating and AC, at times half the toilets work. During the deployment, the Kuznetov's evaporates broke and the ship had to dock in Syria to get safe drinking water. Later the ship's engines were so unreliable an ocean going tug was added to her operating group.
The USS America was on her last tour, and she had several times the capability and ran like a major warship should. Carroll did not have a good impression of the ship 20 years ago, and nothing has changed since. Just like Russia has not fixed problems with the rest of their military.
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