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The Russian Navy Is So Broke It Is Scraping Its Biggest Submarine Ever
MSN ^ | 6-4 | Peter Suciu

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia; War
KEYWORDS: 1945; dmitrydonsko; dmitrydonskoi; navy; onthebrink; petersuciu; rublestoukrainewar; russia; russiannavy; scraping; subs; typhoonclass
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To: dennisw

That’s it! Russia is done! AGAIN!


61 posted on 06/04/2023 10:27:34 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Jeff Chandler

My first thought too! Big difference between scraping and scrapping. 🤣


62 posted on 06/04/2023 10:37:50 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: dennisw

I wouldn’t be surprised if the real reason is that their engineers are leaving for the west.


63 posted on 06/04/2023 10:40:26 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Eccl 10:2

53 posts?!?!?! We’re slipping.


64 posted on 06/04/2023 10:40:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; SaveFerris; dfwgator; pas

Side note: When I was in college I started a business scraping boat hulls. Please get the pronunciation right.


65 posted on 06/04/2023 10:42:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: OVERTIME

All I know is that the content of 19fortyfive is sub-par and embarrassing.


66 posted on 06/04/2023 10:48:46 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Sooth2222

“the US is far, far broker than the Russkies could ever dream to be!”

That’s probably true, both in relative and absolute terms.


67 posted on 06/04/2023 10:50:24 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Jeff Chandler

SEA the scraping of the Love Boat!!

C’mon man!!


68 posted on 06/04/2023 10:50:51 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; navysealdad; Jeff Chandler

https://tass.com/archive/671290


69 posted on 06/04/2023 10:55:16 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

With the new Ford class they don’t need refueling. The current Nimitz class needs one refueling in their lifetimes.


70 posted on 06/04/2023 11:01:42 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MrRelevant

Yep The Russians are scraping the barnacles off the underside.


71 posted on 06/04/2023 11:04:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Brilliant

They can’t get the external tech they need in necessary quantities for a decent price anymore.


72 posted on 06/04/2023 11:06:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dennisw
I am posting to counteract the Putin rump swabbers. You know who you are! These swabbies even post stuff from Tass, the Russian news agency.

Well, the Russians have their TASS and we have our MSN. You seem to think there is some gap of difference between the two. I just pointed this out to counteract the Biden rump swabbers. You know who you are swabbie. BTW, how many ships has the US scrapped in the last say 20 years?

73 posted on 06/04/2023 11:26:15 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

No, to get the gold off because they are broke. Who are you going to sell barnacles to?


74 posted on 06/04/2023 11:34:12 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: ConservativeMind; dennisw

Its not Dennis, they actually ran the story that way.


75 posted on 06/04/2023 11:35:30 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: dennisw

More evidence that Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenal likely is in a shamble because it’s swaddled in secrecy, so they could let it fall to disrepair and no apart those directly involved with the program would be the wiser.


76 posted on 06/04/2023 11:40:42 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Secret Agent Man

“the new Ford class they don’t need refueling”

That is astonishing. Thanks.


77 posted on 06/04/2023 11:57:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: mylife; SaveFerris
all razor blades now

Not the La Jolla or San Fran. Those have been converted to moored training ships for the last school of the naval nuclear power training pipeline. They'll be around for another couple of decades.

78 posted on 06/04/2023 1:04:33 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: OA5599

Seems like a good idea. Are the reactors still running, at low power?


79 posted on 06/04/2023 1:10:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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MSN “journalism”

Ha. They STILL haven’t fixed the title at the original article yet. Duh.


80 posted on 06/04/2023 1:11:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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