Ukrainians wreck new Russian flagship - Yup, a second flagship!

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Putin holding on for dear life much like the Russian military at this point.

What's the over/under on how many hours before the Russians put out a press release saying the ship caught fire by itself again? 🤔
 

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What's the over/under on how many hours before the Russians put out a press release saying the ship caught fire by itself again? 🤔
Russian warships seem to catch fire frequently.
 

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Russian warships seem to catch fire frequently.
It is careless smoking around ammunition or fuel dumps.
You think they would ban smoking around them or at least put up some kind of warning, maybe a no smoking sign?
They may have to sink this one as well to put the fire out.
No, it is near its end of use date and they set it on fire to intentionally destroy it.
Scratch that, there are heavy seas in the area at least 3 ft high and the ship may sink while being towed.
Would you believe it is a training mission on how to fight on board ship fires?
News release will say "Russian navy destroys more Nazified Neptune missiles."
 

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Hitting a Neptune missile with a warship is one way to destroy it :LOL: . I remember back in the old days they had shooting galleries, I think they even had one @ Cristal Beach at one time. You got a pellet rifle and shot at targets moving across on a chain. One of the lines was ships and I think to myself - Plink, plink...
 
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Nottyboi, the eponymous Russian nautical boi has warned Russia's Submarine fleet is growing!
I understand that the Russian Navy is anchoring notty buoys all over the Black Sea to mark the demise of its various temporary flagships.
 

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I understand that the Russian Navy is anchoring notty buoys all over the Black Sea to mark the demise of its various temporary flagships.
Future generations of the Ukrainian Navy will have to salvage them for scrap🇧🇧. Just out of curiosity, where do Neptune anti-ship missiles come from and what is the price tag each? MIC makes a killing as usual, I expect...
 
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The person I feel most sorry for in all of this is poor Vlad Putin. Vlad was all set to announce a massive victory over the NATO Nazis at his big parade on Monday and now it's all going to be awkward and embarrassing for him.
 
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Future generations of the Ukrainian Navy will have to salvage them for scrap🇧🇧. Just out of curiosity, where do Neptune anti-ship missiles come from and what is the price tag each? MIC makes a killing as usual, I expect...
Ukraine’s state weapons manufacturer, Ukroboronprom, designed and builds Neptune missiles at a factory just outside of Kyiv.
They also manufacture Alder precision-guided rockets.
One other thing to note, Russia has not been able to produce a warship larger than a 4,000-tonne Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate that is non nuclear powered since they invaded Crimea.
Why is this?
The engines that Russia used for this were manufactured in Ukraine and since the Crimean invasion, Ukraine won't export to Russia.
 

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Ukraine’s state weapons manufacturer, Ukroboronprom, designed and builds Neptune missiles at a factory just outside of Kyiv.
They also manufacture Alder precision-guided rockets.
One other thing to note, Russia has not been able to produce a warship larger than a 4,000-tonne Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate that is non nuclear powered since they invaded Crimea.
Why is this?
The engines that Russia used for this were manufactured in Ukraine and since the Crimean invasion, Ukraine won't export to Russia.
They need to manufacture some offshore. Kviv is still an easy target. If they produced them in Canada the surplus could be kept up there to defend the Arctic Circle...
 
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