FIRE AND FURY Moment Russia’s £300m stealth warship designed to carry hypersonic missiles goes up in flames in humiliation for Putin

The Sun UK ^ | 21 December 2021 | Will StewartAdrian Zorzut

[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 ...

[blueplum]

oopsie !!

90 second video of nobody fighting the fire, and some assorted pix at link

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

£307M for a warship?
Please!
That’s like $450M, US.
MbS (Saudi prince) has yachts worth more than that.

[Enterprise]

[Libloather]

Kinda non-stealthy whilst ablaze - eh?

[ClearCase_guy]

Can they recoup their losses by declaring it a submarine? It fits the profile of a typical Russian sub.

[mc5cents]

I’m guessing they save a lot on labor costs. No minimum wage and unions? Fergetaboutit!

[zeestephen]

Re: "This deadly new weapon potentially has a range of some 25,000 miles and can operate in space."

Hmmm...

I was under the impression that no point on Earth is more than 12,500 miles from any other point.

[GreenLanternCorps]

In one article the writer calls the ship a Corvette, a Destroyer, and a Battleship.

Reporters are idiots...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

That’s in case they want it to circle back to the point of origin.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Now it’s a Chinese* junk.

*They’ll probably end up buying it for scrap like they’ve done for several other Russian ships.

[central_va]

Call sweepers.

[Hot Tabasco]

12,500 miles from any other point.

That's like if Detroit wanted to launch the missile at Windsor, Canada, we could fire it south and it would circle the world and hit Windsor from the north and they would never see it coming....../

[PIF]

Provorny (Agile) is 2nd ship in class of Project 20385 corvettes.

Gremyashchy class (Project 20385) is an advanced variant of Steregushchy class (Project 20380) multi-purpose corvettes, which have been in service with the Russian Navy since 2007. Featuring stealth design, the corvettes are intended for missions such as patrolling coastal waters, maritime security, anti-surface warfare (ASuW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and anti-air warfare (AAW). https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/gremyashchy-class-project-20385-multi-purpose-corvettes/

[Track9]

Jen Psaki’s battle plan.

[Redcitizen]

You sunk my battleship!

[The_Media_never_lie]

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 ...

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Was it a corvette, or was it a battleship?

[Vaden]

Oh nooooooooes!!!

Pooty’s boot-lickers here are always telling us it is useless to resist Russia cuz our weapons are useless against mighty Russia!

Wonder how much Russia pays these shills?

[LS]

Ha!

[Travis McGee]

Thank goodness nothing like that could ever happen to the U.S. Navy.

[Travis McGee]

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