• dasgoatEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        Apparently on the day that Ceasar Kunikov died as well. What a nice remembrance of the man.

      • Son_of_dadEnglish
        26·
        2 years ago

        Any actual footage and not just an article?

        • verity_kindleEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I am a bit of a Black Sea Bingo Card enthusiast, too. It all started when I was a wee graduate student with no life. I learned to sail on the Delaware and poured all my love into old ships held together with dutchmen and aluminum tape…

          • verity_kindleEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Come on, he or she could be at work or somethin, have pity. I live in flyover country and I have to live for the comments alone due to a potato connection and no wifi. Can’t look at imgur posts, etc.

  • merthyr1831English
    133·
    2 years ago

    Pretty old footage (like a week+ old) but (that was a different sinking oops)

    what strikes me as surprising is that there’s pretty much zero CIWS or other anti-drone weaponry on the ship. You see a few splashes ahead of the drones but nothing indicating sophisticated, or rapid-fire weapons that could’ve actually hit these drones easily.

      • merthyr1831English
        3·
        2 years ago

        yep my bad, mixing it up with another sinking by naval drone

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      there was another ship sunk two weeks ago, Tarantul-class Ivanovets. in both cases the same type of drone was used and in both cases the uploaded video was IR so it looks similar. just because you can’t keep up with black sea fleet losses doesn’t mean these aren’t real

      • merthyr1831English
        4·
        2 years ago

        Didn’t say it wasn’t real, just that I saw similar footage a few weeks back and thought this was just a late announcement (Sometimes they don’t officially sink for a while).

        My surprise is more that these drone attacks are so effective when modern warships are meant to be able to defeat cruise missiles, but the equivalent of a kamikaze speedboat is able to surpass it lmao

      • verity_kindleEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Empty bottles were good enough for the Bolsheviks, they’re good enough for me.

    • verity_kindleEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Well, you have to calculate how much water and frozen mud the Kuznetsov has inside him. How floaty is “floating”?

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        you might be not far off

        update 2: if my math is correct, and it’s probably a bit off, then ignoring the grayed out ships and counting destroyed + damaged it’s somewhere in the ballpark of 35%

        • JustUseMintEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Pretty fucking good for a country with no navy lol

        • verity_kindleEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thanks for the chart. That’s not many options, when you count the ships that are in maintenance/refitting cycle after an “accident”, or even scheduled maintenance. EDIT: changed “even if you disregard” to “when you count”.