"You lost ANOTHER submarine???"
Posted on 06/04/2023 8:31:35 AM PDT by dennisw
It all came down to costs, and Moscow apparently couldn't afford to keep operating what had been the world's largest nuclear-powered submarine.
In February, Russia decommissioned its Project 941 Akula-class (NATO reporting name Typhoon) heavy nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy years earlier than expected. It was just two years ago that the Kremlin announced the boat would remain in service until at least 2026, even as its role was reportedly limited to that of a weapons test platform for the new Borei-, Borei-A-, Yasen- and Yasen-M-class submarines
However, this week, it was confirmed that Dmitry Donskoi was decommissioned in February due to cost considerations. It had served for more than 40 years in the Northern Fleet.
"The Dmitry Donskoi could no longer be in service due to its spent nuclear core," a source in the Russian Navy told state media outlet Tass on Thursday.
The Dmitry Donskoi’s Career Initially designated the TK-208, she was the lead vessel of the Soviet third-generation Akula-class (Russian for "Shark"). She entered service in 1981 with the Soviet Navy, and after a 12-year overhaul and refit that began in 1990, she reentered service in 2002 as the Dmitry Donskoi, named after the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitry Donskoy (1359–1389), the reputed founder of Moscow.
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They are doing just fine.
Scraping barnicles?
MSN is the US equivalent of TASS😂
Or even a spell check for thier headline😂
“ Broke”?
Or pragmatically adapting their naval fleet to meet current threats and weapon systems?
They can afford this
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/europe/russia-belgorod-submarine-nuclear-torpedo-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
Built confusing:
The SSBN:
Russian Designation: Project 941 Akula
NATO Designation: Typhoon
The SSN:
Russian Designation: Project 971 Shchuka-B
NATO Designation: Akula
Putin has mostly reigned in its money-sucking oligarchs and their demands on taxpayers, Russia has almost no debt, and it doesn't have the world's reserve currency that allows it to fund decades of government debt and a constant 3-4% current account deficit.
No one argues these points. So yes, unlike US Fed.gov - I image they actually have to manage and optimize their spending.
“Boys are BOYS and Girls are GIRLS”
Free and unaccountable money is a very dangerous thing. It gives the appearance of wealth and strength, but often hides vast mismanagement and corruption.
I have an ominous feeling that some day soon, American weapons systems (and much of what Fed.gov does) will not protect us or serve the people even in a basic way - and we will all come to a collective moment of realization when we ask "We spent $$ Trillion on that - with NO result?" We'll finally rip the lid off and see all the rot and worms hiding beneath the gilded surface.
Since no one else noticed, Dmitry Donskoi is a saint in the Orthodox Church. He was a prince of Moscow in the 1300s, and the first Russian to openly fight against the Mongols, during the time of Timur (Tamerlane), the meanest of the mean Mongol dudes.
When was the last time a USN sub was named after a fighting saint?
(Two possibilities, if we ever wanted to be religious in our vessel-naming, come to mind. The Catholic one is John Neumann, Catholic bishop of Philadelphia who fought against the riots and church burnings of the Know-Nothings. The Protestant one would be Henry Ward Beecher, best known for fighting slavery to the point of sending rifles to abolitionists prior to the Civil War, and going to Europe during the war to keep European governments from openly supporting the Confederacy, similar to Franklin in Paris four generations earlier.)3
"You lost ANOTHER submarine???"
all my boats are razor blades now
"By the end of his reign, Dmitry had more than doubled the territory of the Principality of Moscow." -
"Dmitry's early reign was to start building the Moscow Kremlin; it was completed in 1367"......
If the Russians ever peg the ruble to gold, our day of reckoning will come sooner than we want it to.
Sorry, but its not correct to say that “Peter Suciu is an idiot who writes for the crap blog 19fortyfive.”
Beleive it or not he is a “Senior Editor” for 19fortyfive.
Indeed, as a trend-setter for American Journalism, he is one of the new generation of Senior Editor who specializes in misspelling headlines.
One who uses “scraping” (which is what you do with sanpaper) for “scrapping” which is what you do with a worn out ship or car.
But this is nitpicking. The rest of his aricle, you can take it to the bank.
all razor blades now
There supply is rapidly attriting their know supplies of missile types and by the end of the year, if they keep up the current pace, be using only what they can produce - they reserve stocks will be gone.
The can only produce a few SU-34s a year, and the SU-35 line is shut down.
Yes huge resources but they cannot access them. Most are locked up in the Siberian tundra were life is extremely difficult. And working there is problematic with Russian 1930s logistics and the harsh conditions.
That was my thought or maybe the paint did no turn out right.
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