Posted on 03/26/2022 7:20:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The wreckage of a sinking Russian warship was left smouldering in a Ukrainian port on Friday after the country's navy scored a direct hit on the vessel the day before, incredible satellite images showed.
The Ukrainian navy said Thursday that it had struck the Orsk, a 370ft Russian Alligator-class tank carrier, as it was sitting at anchor in the captured port of Berdyansk, in the south of Ukraine.
Satellite images taken today from above the port showed a huge plume of thick smoke rising into the air from the blackened wreckage of the destroyed ship that appeared to be sinking into the ocean.
Multiple photos and videos on Thursday showed smoke rising from the port as one ship sat at the harbour in flames, while another two sailed away - one of which also appeared to be damaged.
Ukraine also claimed two more ships were damaged and a 3,000-ton fuel tank was destroyed when the Orsk was sunk, causing a fire that spread to nearby ammunition supplies.
Just three days before the strike, Russian state media had filmed the Orsk at the port unloading armoured vehicles which it said would reinforce troops in nearby Mariupol - prompting speculation that Ukraine could use the video to target the vessel.
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Camouflage
All part of Putin’s plan. The ship was really a submarine.
Dumbass Captain, why didn’t he get out of there once he got all the tanks and stuff unloaded?
Let me guess, awaiting orders from High Command?
Saw a picture of the ship on fire and 2 more RUNNING AWAY ,LOL
Or any loyal Ukrainian with a cell phone or a Starlink internet connection could have picked it out for being shot. Also any of the commercial photo satellites.
It used to be that militaries had to cover up equipment, hide planes in hangers or sail ships in different directions the couple of times per day when a spy satellite passed overhead. Now they are under regular surveillance and I expect soon there will be fleets of small sats like Starlink to maintain constant surveillance.
Video: Russian air defense missile launched over occupied Sevastopol
https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1507689339786084355
Ukrainian missle? Or US missile?
I would be more afraid if it was sinking into the earth!
Both of the other ships sustained damage too.
A ship lost in war? Thank goodness the Daily Smell is here to report the event that has never happened in the entire history of the world! We’d be lost without them.
Pardon me if I still think this was most likely a dockside accident. The Russians would rather give the Ukrainians credit for doing this then admit that somebody pooched safety protocols for handling munitions. The Ukrainians of course don’t mind taking credit for the destruction of a Russian warship.
Sky news out of the United Kingdom yesterday I also said pretty much the same thing I just said.
Ukraine won battle....But, its getting destroyed in the war.
Your red army is being humiliated all over Ukraine. Thousands of dead Ruskies fertilizing the sun flowers. Embarrassing 3rd world army is getting destroyed for all of the free world to see. SLAVA UKRAINE!!
Ukraine wasn’t exactly bereft of technology after the Soviet collapse, and they haven’t exactly shut down their R&D - Ukraine was one of the big Soviet R&D and production centers prior to the collapse, so they have at least limited numbers of Soviet antiship missiles, including the Kh-35 they just built their new Neptune missile design off of.
Their major issue is that they’ve not been able to really get their economy off the ground in the intervening years.
For those that don't know, that's SS Atlantic Conveyor, taken up for British Royal Navy transport duties in the Falklands War, after it ate two Exocet missiles but prior to sinking. Clearly it was an indication that the British were going to lose that war! Oh, wait...
—”Pardon me if I still think this was most likely a dockside accident. The Russians would rather give the Ukrainians credit for doing this then admit that somebody pooched safety protocols for handling munitions. The Ukrainians of course don’t mind taking credit for the destruction of a Russian warship.”
An interesting assessment and worth wading through the BS posters to get it.
Thanks
Putin needs to hire Baghdad Bob, the unnamed online volunteers are just not gettin' the job done.
This may all be true but there is little doubt where their best , most effective, most advanced weaponry is coming from.
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