[Dr. Franklin]

This was hit near where I expected it to be based upon the reports. It likely suffered a catastrophic explosion later while it was getting towed near the main armament.

All of the Slava class ships were built at the 61 Kommunar yard, in Mykolaiv (Nikolaev), Ukrainian. Obviously, there are Ukrainians who served on these ships and knew them well. The Ukies may even have had the blueprints for the ship as well. They knew were to hit for maximum damage.

[DarthVader]

All old Soviet designs had this flaw. When they built the Kirov they started making their ships better with under armor VLS systems where everyone is going now.