"Andrei, you lost *another* warship?"
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 ...
The warship the USN lost in a shipyard fire was 16 times the displacement of the Russian corvette. The LHD Bonhomme Richard was a critical flagship for our Pacific amphibious warfare capability, and it was a total loss.
Our fire and ship loss was caused by crew sabotage.
I’d hold off on laughing at the Russian loss. It was piddling compared to ours.
Class and type Gremyashchiy-class corvette
Displacement 2,500 tons
Length 106.0 m (347.8 ft)
Class and type Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement 40,358 long tons (41,006 t) full load
Length 844 ft (257 m)
See above.
See 19-21.
Ah, but the Russkies cannot afford to lose anything.
They are rapidly (in the next five years) approaching the point they won’t even be able to deploy an effective army due to their shockingly fast depopulation according to futurist George Freedman.
A 2,500 ton corvette is nothing. They are built in series a dozen at a time at multiple shipyards. They are virtually meant to be expendable missile launching platforms.
Our loss of the Bonny Dick TO SABOTAGE BY ITS OWN CREW is 100 times more significant. It was the flagship of our current Pacific amphibious warfare capability, and will take more than a decade to replace, if it is ever replaced.
This is an answer to one of my prayers.
First called a “corvette”, and in the next paragraph, a “battleship”.
Is a prerequisite for a journalist degree a prefrontal lobotomy? Or, is natural stupidity a suitable replacement?
“Hmmm...
I was under the impression that no point on Earth is more than 12,500 miles from any other point.”
Technically the Russians call it: ‘The Comrade Psaki Circle-Back Destruction Missile.’
That’s what the extra 12,500 miles are for.
So now ya know...
“Provorny (Agile) is 2nd ship in class of Project 20385 corvettes.”
Sounds like.... not anymore.
It's actually 7,926.3 miles, but that involves a LOT of digging.
Around 80% of “The Sun” stories are ridiculous lies or old videos claiming to be new ones. So I would look for another source on this.
Hmmm...
I was under the impression that no point on Earth is more than 12,500 miles from any other point.
Shhh…. don’t tell them. They’ll be really surprised when the first warhead lands. In fact, maybe we should encourage them to build lots of these and taunt them into launching them all at once.
Welding torch got a little to close to the bottle of vodka?
Too bad, one less thing to shoot at us with.
Maybe we should send the shipyard a case of vodka?
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Was it made out of wood?
Russians do make pretty warships. They will make nice sea floor ornaments.
As for their weapons and being so superior to the rest of the world, they always seem to come up short from what the Russians advertise. Especially when used by proxies against western weapons.
And the west has hypersonic weapons. We were testing those in the 1960s, including a hypersonic manned aircraft, the X-15 Neil Armstrong flew Mach 5.74.. The German V-2 was supposedly “hypersonic”. it is the flight profile and maneuverability that is new, if it is new.
Re-arming Russian warships with tactical nuclear weapons will be new, since the Cold War ended. That should concern people.
That caught my eye too. Writer obviously has no clue about navy terminology. Kind of makes me wonder if the writer’s usual beat is reporting on vegetable gardens.
It is apparently a corvette class ship - slightly smaller in size and displacement than our (now decommissioned) Perry class frigates.
Nothing particularly stealthy about the class other than their small size and relatively clean lines. Decent looking ships. Nothing particularly sinister about them either. They have VLS cells which is presumably where they store whatever missiles they are armed with.
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