“Ivan is spun up on damage control then the ship should survive and make it to port.”
Considering the state of their army’s equipment I’m not sure I’d take that bet.
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I agree. Who knows what deferred maintenance issues are compounding the salvage of this ship?
And if it does make it to port will it ever make it back out again?
In the early 90s I had a chance to go aboard A Soviet Kara class cruiser in Norfolk, VA. From what I saw, the Soviet Navy did not have the faintest concept of damage control. Watertight integrity was nonexistent. Saw no fire stations on the weather decks and few inside of the ship. Saw no emergency power distribution system. The Soviet Naval philosophy was the ship had to last long enough to launch its main missile battery. Whether it survived after that seemed to be of no particular concern.