Posted on 12/15/2019 11:46:42 AM PST by gandalftb
I was going to say, can a submarine ever sink, they just fail to raise.
Petropavlovsk once was the most heavily defended location in the former USSR. Considering the brutal climate and maritime environment it is not surprising it has decader into rusted junk.
Those Russian shipyard jobs pay enough that workers can afford to get blackout drunk.
Floating docks are designed to sink.
and refloat......
Is not this one of two from Japan. Japan has built trucks for Joey Izzu’s NK Mech Infantry too. Japan faced US sanctions at that time.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-10-fi-6976-story.html - I immediately thought of the Toshiba dock “towed” to the USSR from Japan in 1982 and sure enough.
Nope, this dock was home made during WW2.
You make a good point about the Ruskies buying sub technology.
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