"Admiral Kuznetsov". © Photos from the site utro.ru
Posted on 10/28/2016 7:23:29 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian
Comical march of so-called "Russian aircraft carrier group" headed by aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" to the shores of Syria at war, amused the entire Internet, it seems, risks to become the biggest shame in the history of the Russian Navy. The reason is simple: no country in the region has agreed to fill the aggressor ships. By all indications, they will be destined to stupid drift in the Mediterranean without fuel until they get own tanker with fuel oil from Russia itself. The last hope of the Kremlin admirals was refueling in Malta, but today, 27 October, Foreign Minister of the island nation, George Vella said in an interview with local edition of the Times of Malta, a Maltese oil will not fuel Russian aggressors for any money.
"Admiral Kuznetsov". © Photos from the site utro.ru
Initially, the Kremlin planned to refuel his clown squadron in Spain - it was based on and developed the whole scenario for a long voyage. However, as recently as yesterday, the Spanish government, criticized his colleagues in NATO, politely declined to share fuel with those who are bombing innocent Syrian children. In turn, Moscow said that they themselves refused to refuel in Spain, obviously hoping to get cheap heating oil for the "Admiral Kuznetsov" and its accompanying ships in neutral Malta. But here came, shall we say, some misunderstanding.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta, George Vella, a decision to refuse the Russian ships to refuel, government was pushed by a petition from the citizens of the country. They strongly demanded from their government to follow the example of Spain.
- In Madrid, a very simple and easy refueling stop for this deadly fleet was denied, - stated in the document. - We urgently need to make it clear to his government that the people of Malta also do not want to be involved in the bloody war crimes. We must act to stop this massacre, and not making money on it.
Frankly, the Russian admirals, with last drops of fuel in tanks is not to be envied: refuel in the western Mediterranean after the failure, and Spain, and Malta, is resolutely nowhere. No chance in the next states in the region: France and Portugal are also members of NATO, and thanks to a harmonized fuel Alliance countries' positions "Admiral Kuznetsov" just will not be refueled there. Gibraltar is a territory under the control of Great Britain. Libya has not yet regained consciousness after the revolution, and in addition - its ports controlled by the pro-American insurgents. In Tunisia, a similar pattern: a democratic government that came to power after the overthrow of the dictator Ben Ali, under any circumstances, does not want to spoil relations with the civilized world.
The only illusory hope to refuel smoky Russian squadron left are the ports of Egypt - with Vladimir Putin had not yet had time to quarrel with this country. However, they still need to be reached, and the fuel is likely not enough. Of course, they do not have it to return home, so in the coming days we may witness the funniest in the history of the Russian Navy's rescue operation of Russian Navy.
(Google translation slightly polished by Leo Carpathian)
I went to the original site, and the whole article is in Russian (or at least the Cyrillic alphabet).
Even with oilers in the task group, I wouldn’t want to be on some elderly poorly maintained Cold War era warships on a long cruise.
Right you are. People tend to forget that the Kuznetsov is a one off design that is part aircraft carrier and part missile cruiser.
Ukrainian uses Cyrillic as well.
“why didn’t the Russians send their own oilers along on the trip?”
They did. This article is propaganda nonsense.
Wonder why they don’t have nuke powered aircraft carriers like the rest of the world???
..assuming these subs lasted long enough to launch and if these actually hit a target. doubt that any of these could close with a US combatant without said combatant being fully aware of their presence.
if there are Oscars about it can be assumed that they are
being shadowed by forces who can show them love if necessary..
At the link:
“Japanese hits caused more damage to Russian ships relative to Russian hits on Japanese ships, setting the superstructures, the paintwork and the large quantities of coal stored on the decks on fire. (The Russian fleet often bought low-quality coal at sea from merchant vessels on most of their long voyage due to the lack of friendly fuelling ports).”
The Russians decided to invest primarily in submarines, both nuclear and diesel.
They have modernized their navy and have vastly improved their maintainence.Let me remind you that our boomers are cold war error too.
They can launch outside the range of the anti submarine fleet
Don’t show that picture to Barry and Reggie; they’ll get excited.
Does the 'rest of the world's only consist of France and the US?
I think we should refuel them. Every jihadi they kill is one less for us to worry about.
I agree with Trump’s approach - Join up with the Rooskies to whup ISIS
Maybe Global Warming will keep those Europeans warm this winter when Ivan diverts all that Nat Gas to China in that brand new pipeline that was just completed.
Payback is a B**CH.
We (0bama’s forces) aren’t killing Jihadis, we are arming them and sending them money.
That’s crazy....for exactly the reason you see here.
Thanks for the laugh, Vlad.
Incidentally, 'turbine' is pronounced to rhyme with 'combine' or 'haybine', NOT like the thing a Sikh wears on his head, a 'turban'.
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