"You lost ANOTHER submarine???"
“ 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
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.
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
That’s it! Russia is done! AGAIN!
I wouldn’t be surprised if the real reason is that their engineers are leaving for the west.
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.
And a full day later, this typo at MSN has yet to be corrected.