Its not sunk, its on a "Special Underwater Operation"!

I hear the second Battleship Moskva is going to have a glass bottom, so they can see the FIRST one...

Ironic thing is that ship and the rest of her class were build in the Ukraine. There is an unfinished one sitting moored there for decades. The other 2 are well away from the Black Sea - one in the Arctic and the other part of the Pacific fleet. Read that one is usually not in service due to issues...

The Russian Navy has a tradition of having more issues than a Stalingrad newsstand...

Considering the ship is not some relic from the 1950's but a relatively new ship launched in the 1980s, the thing is covered in portholes like a cruise ship which in modern navy ship design makes it nearly glass bottomed as it is.

I've heard the Disneyland submarines are better built.

Hrmn...the ride had the "subs" on a track like an underwater monorail...

was that the plan to sneak it past the turks?🤑

Hey, it worked for Harry Harrison!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunne.....ough_the_Deeps

man that thumbnail is MIGHTY suggestive to my dirty, er, old eyes!



also if that would have happened, what happen to Tarl Cabot!?

us Gingers wouldnt have any rapresentation on Gor!

I have a Shameful Secret: I paid a quarter apiece for the first dozen or so Gor books and binge-read them back in 1982, figuring they HAD to improve at some point...

Dude. The eighties were thirty to forty years ago. In today's world all large ships are just extremely expensive sitting ducks.

You look at an American ship built in the eighties and compare it to a Russian built at the same time. You wouldn't want to even step on the Russian ship. They may both be targets but the US ship will be designed to give its crew a fighting chance where there would only names would be added to memorial to dead Russian heroes. Or not even that.

That wouldn't surprise me.

remember: it supposedly had nukes :p

They're moist nukes, now...

If the Ukrainians were to manage to salvage said nukes (or say they salvaged those nukes) then threaten Moscow with them, the war might be over tomorrow. Russia was so bold because Ukraine gave up their nukes in the first place.

yet it’s not outta the realm of possibilities if Putin is threatened by nukes he might be insane enough to use his other ones xx

Lovely.

Impetuous! Homeric! That for you, Vlad!
Thanks much for this great find!

My pleasure!

Ahha they fell for our cunning trap, you see it was ment to be a submarine all along.

Aren't submarines supposed to resurface, though?

Maaaayyybeeee 😇

Most countries require dive to surface ratios to equal one. Russia had a lot of issues with that. It is also preferable to keep the water out of the people tank.

Sweet and pure truth.

🤣🤣🤣 A nice follow-up model to the Titanic

Cruiser, promoted to submarine.

Путешествие на дно морское!

ROFLMAO!

this rather reminds me of when the Brits torpedoes the Argentinian cruiser outside the war zone... and by the way - in the nature of news and propaganda, the news, this morning, gave the ship a promotion to 'battleship'...

V.

what the..?
So, instead of having lost a cruiser to enemy action, they now lost a BATTLESHIP to INCOMPETENCE of its own crew by managing to set up a fire in the ammo storage?
Or, even better, the fire ignited on its own , probably due to sloppy and risky design decisions?
Seriously, how can all the latter options be more confidence building for the own populous than "Okay, our ship took a hit that hurt. It's down, but we got the crew off in time" ???

Maintaining the traditions of the Russian Baltic Fleet (Second Pacific Squadron) from 1904. It's like a set up of a TV sitcom that makes Mchale's Navy look like a grim war drama.

"What is it, McHaleski? What, what, what?"

The fact it is all true is what makes it tragic, the Russian fleet reported they were being attacked by Japanese torpedo boats... off the coast of Denmark nearly starting two wars as they attacked fishing boats. It goes down hill from there...

The Moskva was actually sunk by Norma and Sylvia in a rowboat.

In Russia, cats sink you.

Someone just told 'em it was a giant tin o Squab™

Ya gotta love how their attempt at a positive spin on it makes it look like incompetence as opposed to an enemy rocket strike...

Shitty definition of "positive spin" in my book. More likely they didn't have their American CIA /CNN sitrep update where theirs is two days late and completey made up.

it's now gotten a few other promotions to 'submarine' and 'artificial coral reef'.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OmeyDaHo.....15185549770763

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......

V.

Heh, saw that one on Fark yesterday while on lunch. Damn near shot 7 Up out my nose. Read that the Turks rescued 14 of the crew - out of a crew of 541. Always wondered about how the Russians would put so many explosives on deck.....

Back in the late eighties the Russians made a port call to Norfolk Navy base and they even allowed tours on their navy combat ships that pulled in. the guided-missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov (same Slava-class cruiser as Moskva) being the main attraction. The impression was that Russians had little concept of damage control at that time and I'm not convinced the Russian Federation has improved things much. In the US Navy, you spend a little time learning your job then you spend your time learning firefighting and damage control. Then you practice and practice some more and when you get near perfect, you drill and drill even more. I may not have been a great submariner but I was a freaking good fireman. I didn't get that sense at all from the Russian ships with little to no compartmentalization, glass portholes only a few meters from the waterline and fire extinguishers as rare as unicorns.

See below.

Thats the difference, EVERYBODY on a US ship trains in damage control, from the cooks to the captain...EVERYBODY takes part and knows it forwards and backwards.

The whole Ukraine War makes one wonder just how good the much-feared Russki military machine IS, period...

Force in numbers, my friend, force in numbers....

There's a big difference between 'overwhelming numbers' and 'providing a target-rich environment'...

Gravelly voice, "There I was, sky full of Russian paratroopers. I was knee deep in grenade pins, empty shell casings and spent magazines. Was I scared? Hell yea I was scared.. that one would get away!"

😅

Just good enough to get politicians to pump billions and billions into the military industrial complex. Mission accomplished.

Eisenhower was right.

^

While its certainly good news for Ukraine, I'm honestly surprised how badly the Russian military has performed in the war. Over the years it has has been played up as some fearsome, mighty bear, yet in reality it appears to be more of a paper tiger. Every day I seem to find a new story, ranging from rubbish tires for their support trucks, Russian conscripts viewing their superiors as glory-seeking dumbasses, Ukrainian farmers joyriding abandoned tanks, to the Russians digging, and living in, trenches in the radioactive grounds of Red Forest near Chernobyl.

Dad's Army, but funnier.

Yup sounds like bait...tsun zu said appear weak then bitch slap your enemy...

I honestly fear the Chinese Military more, they are actually taking things far more seriously in training , weapons development (IE: Theft of US, Russian and European designs). They won't be as stupid as the Russians. But I assure you, Taiwan has had decades to anthill the island into a massive kill box. They won't go down lightly.

"Not as stupid" doesn't necessarily mean "intelligent and competent"...

ehhhh...

I wonder how much he was expecting to do...

he did the drive in and spread out thing...

He didn't send in his heavy "take and hold" stuff or his truly elite forces...

and he didn't hold to russian form/doctrin...in the past they would have used arty for days. Literally. Then bombs then tanks. THEN mech infantry.

Their reaction to a single sniper is to LEVEL the 1/4 mile area...flat.

it looks like putin went in trying NOT to slaughter civvies or cause too much damage...

most of his troops were/are conscripts...

Im still thinin its bait for nato to come in and cause the nwo/wef "great reset" to jump start...

putin is/was one of "them"...

He wants to "git 'r done" on the cheap, and it's blowing back hard.

Russian Titanic, meet Ukrainian iceberg.

Booooooooo!!!

I'm here all week! Try the borcht!

It was said to have been promoted and transferred to submarine duty. * hilarity ensues*

20,000 Leaks Under The Sea!

WAHAHAHAHA!! That's a real knee slapper. XD XD

Like that photo of the Russians shoving old T-62s into the ocean to reef and the caption ...

New Soviet Anti-Submarine Tank

XD

Many Brave Hearts are now like sheep in the deep... So Baaa Baaa, Baaa BAH!

Ha-haaaaa!

I like it better this way. Think of all the time you'll save by not having to paint it...

Calm down, people! It was an ammo malfunction. See, that round came in from shore and malfunctioned all over the place...

More like a Ukrainian TAG! YER IT!!

Volodymyr returning Vladimir's tags...

Remember all those "in Soviet Russia" jokes? Here's a new one:

[faux Russian accent] "...In Putin Russia, enemies don't sink warship; warship sink itself!" [evil laugh]

Free Guided Missile Cruiser, needs some work.


Maybe the Ukraine can use some tractors and drag it back to shore, fix it up, Piss off Vladimir more.

https://twitter.com/peacelovingnj/s.....51346832953344

That's awesome. XD XD

yeah saw somethin bout scavenging the nukes...

Highly accurate!

To the last detail!

Ha!

From reports, Russian warship did indeed go fuck itself!

More like...Fist fucked.

Why...yes. Yes, it did.

Consider itself "fucked."

This might make a good model kit as well. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46797064/

Hahaha! Aw yeah!

Complete with battle damage.

"This is the voice of the Mysterions. You know you can hear us earth men. The warship that was going to be used for this episode's Prelog has sunk. We are not responsible for this. That is all...."

This humor is black than ebony in a coal mine. hehe (no racist overtones)

Why...yes. Yes, it is.

I'm reminded of the Lego Star Wars kit of the planet Alderaan ;)

Or Death Stars I and II...

It's a weird journey I had with those books (an' yeah the Red haired Boris cover got me hooked)

I noticed the copy rights are odd...tarl cabot=john norman...

(Much later I noticed the "voice/tone" of the 60's-ish books mostly "fealt" the same...see the moon is a harsh mistress=the turner diaries {I'm all for free speach but...} they let the the inmates at the prison I worked at have that last one...)

so I noticed that the andromeda strain "fealt" like the the gor books...hrmn... so I chased some more copy rights and found john norman=see also micheal chriton...???

the first 6 were good and jnteresting...then the "voice" changed...it was obviously was a diff writer...hrmn...

I followed the series off and on (avoid #19 it was just the dregs of old shit the editors threw out.)

then the original writer came back for an arc, war between cos and ar...didn't see how it ended...

so I'm STILL wondering...was it chriton???

😅

I seem to vaguely recall reading somewhere that Crichton did a lot of ghostwriting, so could be! :)

Met John Norman at a Phila SF Society meeting 25 years or so ago. Nice chap, good raconteur.

he was a furry!?😋

That looks like my romulan warbird kit

comes with a giant tank of water and the kit somewhere in there

Basically, yes.