Posted on 12/12/2019 6:28:49 AM PST by McGruff
Russia's only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire on Thursday morning during repair work in Russia's Arctic Sea port of Murmansk, according to Russian state news agencies.
Six people are thought to have been injured and one person is believed to be missing so far, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
The fire broke out during maintenance work in the first power unit and a thick plume of black smoke was seen from the upper deck.
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The Soviets & Russians just don’t seem to have any luck building aircraft carriers.
sukoi will be along any minute to explain to us why a flaming soviet era aircraft carrier full of dead guys represents an existential threat to the us navy.
Admiral Kuznetsov, launched in the mid-1980s, is an unlucky ship. It has spent most of its 30-year life tied up in port undergoing repairs for various mishaps that have occurred on the rare occasions it has gone to sea. And when it does sail, it is always escorted by a tugboat.
Despite the problems with the ship, the Kremlin has in recent years leaned heavily on it to project an image of resurgent Russian naval strength. But problems have continued to arise, limiting the impact of the ship’s image to Russian state media audiences.
The ship was sent on a high-profile deployment to Syria in 2017, passing through the English Channel...
it isn’t a single “unlucky” ship. historically, the russian navy has been a comprehensive failure.
this is just continuing the tradition.
The hottest ship in the fleet.
Why would the Russians name their ship “cuts nuts off”?
Scratch one flat top!
lol. I jumped over to wiki to make sure I correctly remembered this floating horror show’s age, and someone had updated it’s status (eg “active duty”, “decommissioned”, etc) to “on fire”.
hosers.
The Aswan Dam is cracking.
OMG , No cooking in your Bunk
Lt. John McCain could not be reached for comment.
It can happen to us also.
or submarines for that matter.
Its just a little fire....
If the Admiral Kuznetsov is smoking, how would we know?
Of course. However, we have more ‘Navy’, therefore more chances for accidents. I’ll bet our accident ratio is much lower. Russia is still having modern submarine disasters.
There are fires just about every day on a U.S.Carriers. We just have the training to put them out when small and keep them from spreading. We have had our own problems with Carrier fires.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/biggest-threat-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-catching-fire-44592
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