“Hold my vodka and watch this, Ivan”
neither a missile strike nor blowing themselves up is a good look for the russkie navy ...
Next the Russians will say it collided with an iceberg.
Either way, Russia had only one option.
There’s no way they would admit to being hit. They could not
allow it to look like the Ukraine surprised and hurt them that
much in an attack.
It doesn’t matter to me which way it happened. It did, and
that’s not going to look good back home.
At some point, people are going to start having to face the
fact none of this negative stuff would have happened if
Putin had not invaded the Ukraine.
What are the chances that the Ukrainians didn’t cause the blast, but learned about it and then claimed a successful missile strike - before Russia even confirmed the story? Seems unlikely, although I suppose it’s possible. If it’s sufficiently unlikely, then it’s more likely that they knew about it because they successfully hit the ship with their missiles.
The “Victory at Sea” series shows some very impressive secondary explosions from ships hit in the Pacific in WW2. But there was no doubt that they are secondary explosions.
Ammo blast caused be missle strike
“He’s dead, Jim.”
“Heroic cruiser Moskva has been promoted to submarine.”
It seems like the Russian military last completed comprehensive maintenance and safety checks a century ago.
Rob Lee
@RALee85
“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.”
No more dominating for the Moskva.
Did this sucker actually sink? A burned out hulk is just as good, tho’.
Ukes claim two hits with their (not even really into production yet) Neptune missiles. Comparison w/ the old Harpoons, anyone?
Yes, but was it their ammo or the Ukranians ammo that caused the blast.
CC
Munitions “do” tend to blow up when struck by multiple missiles...
Does anyone know what other ships Russia has in the Black Sea?
Whose ammo?
Ammo blast all right but not theirs.