Photos of major damage to a Russian Navy submarine attacked while in dry dock in Crimea point to the boat being a complete write-off.

  • Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It may still be working. They should put some generals in it and take it for a test dive.

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    1 year ago

    If it’s considered repairable, it’s probably 2 years+.

    The USS Ross is looking at almost two years for much needed maintenance repairs all over. 18 months on major repairs is generally considered rapid.

    But, based on history, they’ll go cheap with as many shortcuts as possible, so it’ll be reactivated sooner than expected but sink a few months later, by its own accord. Obviously damaging the environment with it, or some other dramatic fuck up to deal with on top. It’s the Russian way.

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      1 year ago

      There’s actually a famous instance of it happening. K-19. They had to go into the reactor room to fix up the cooling because of botched manufacturing process.

      What happened to them after can only be described as gruesome. I’d rather a bullet to the brain after.

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      1 year ago

      The photos are from the Conflict Intelligence Team, who are not operating with permission from the Russian military.

      Any accidental reflection, or visible detail that could identify people in the background or time the photo, could give the Russian police enough information to track down the photographer.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe so they won’t know where it’s being held?

      Maybe it got moved to a new drydock to get fixed and they want to obscure where it is.

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    1 year ago

    The original, non-edited picture has been floating around already for the last 24 hours, what an annoying pic to look at when it’s blurred like that.

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    1 year ago

    I imagine holes on a submarine are a pretty dangerous thing, yeah.

    And those are some very, ah, large, holes.