Posted on 12/22/2021 2:33:08 AM PST by blueplum
THIS is the dramatic moment Russia's £300m stealth warship that was designed to carry hypersonic missiles went up in flames in a humiliating blow for Vladimir Putin.
New footage shows devastating fire damage to the new £307 million warship intended to carry Putin’s lethal Mach-9 hypersonic missiles....
...The scale of the blaze, which started on Friday in St Petersburg, has been viewed as a massive set back to the Kremlin’s naval modernisation programme.
Huge flames and thick smoke were seen rising from the corvette Provornyy at Severnaya Verf shipyard where it was being built.
The battleship was almost completely destroyed by the fire - the latest of a spate of mysterious blazes at top secret naval shipbuilding facilities ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Used car prices are soaring because the US currently has trouble producing automobiles...this ain't your father's domestic economy.
re: ‘I was under the impression that no point on Earth is more than 12,500 miles from any other point. “
In case you really, really want to score an “own goal” and fully expend ordnance in the process?
Seriously, they may want to tailor the ‘path’ the thing takes.
Yup, the Pootylickers are are veritable fifth column. Sadly, some of them actually believe the crap Moscow tells them to say.
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