Related to this, Russia says ammo aboard famed warship detonated (BBC).
"Ammunition stockpiles aboard a Russian ship that was famously defied by Ukrainian troops early in the war have detonated, according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.
Either by Ukraine's anti-ship missiles (good) or by accident (even better), another bad day for the Russian Navy.
A Russian source is saying the Moskva has sunk and that the explosion was from a Ukrainian Neptun missile strike. Apparently, Ukraine flew a TB2 UCAV to distract the ship while it was targeted by the Neptun. The ship rolled onto its side after the strike.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1514398732611211271
There will come the day when people realize that the Ukies are a basket of snakes and will wish the Russians prevailed. Neither one of them is worth one drop of American blood or treasure, though.
I hope this is true it would be great, but I recall 3 weeks they claim to have sunk the same ship that attacked that island. Perhaps this is a different ship, I don't know. Perhaps its the same ship and they damaged it the first time and scored a direct hit this time.
I believe nothing at this point.
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Andrei, you've lost another cruiser?
Apparently the Russkis’ ship damage control is as effective as the Japanese approach was during WW2; i.e., very poor. IJN carriers at Midway burned to the waterline after a few bomb hits.
Neptun missile is a Ukrainian-built antiship missile for which Ukraine was seeking export orders. So this isn’t US aid.
The thing was just introduced into service last year so the Ukes cant have many of them.
Russian CIWS ship stuff always seemed really wonky, they were having guys standing outside with a big bullseye target as the main defense of incoming missiles.
Glad to see nothing’s changed.