The Admiral Kuznetsov was exiting Russia’s 80,000 ton floating dry dock today when the repair facility unexpectedly sank around the former superpower’s one remaining aircraft carrier. There is a 215 square foot hole in the deck where a 70-ton crane came crashing down during the tragic sinking.
The vessel is expected to be quickly repaired. It’s the possible loss of the floating dry dock that may set back the Russian navy’s efforts to modernize its fleet. More
There are bad days at the office and then there is this. Someone is in trouble.
The curved-up bow on the Kuznetsov – didn’t the French invent that? It’s a good way to stall your aircraft on takeoff.
“In Russia, the docks sinks YOU.”
Rocky and Bullwinkle had something to do with this.
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It’s always embarrassing when you attempt to leave the dock before all of the lines are freed. Don’t ask me how I know. Someone named Boris will lose his vodka ration over this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hthl28SEGfk
I’ve always said any dock where boats come and go is some of the best entertainment you can get.
This coming from someone that had my motor stall when putting it in reverse to brake at the fuel dock with 500 people watching, then having the seat ripped out of the floorboard because you tend to push on the floor with your feet in such times sending me flying backwards on the deck, good times.
This “accident” has Natasha’s finger prints all over it.
Are we sure it wasn’t Boris and Natasha chasing Rocky and Bullwinkle to obtain their supply of Upsadaisyium so that Pottsylvania could have the world’s first flying aircraft carrier.
Why isn’t Trump getting credit for this?
you guys r killin’ me! LOL
Oh… that’s terrible! Heh.
@Jimmy – I don’t think the aircraft are launched up & off the inclined bow. They only launch off the flat straight deck on port side.
During the winter into early spring of 1973 I was in the Eastern Mediterranean crew on the USS Mitscher DDG35. The soviet union at that time did not have aircraft carriers.
We were in Athens when it was announced that the soviet helicopter carrier, Moskva, or maybe it wasn’t the Moskva but its sister Moskva-class ship the Leningrad, was making a rare or first appearance in the Mediterranean Sea having exited the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. Liberty was cancelled, and we were sent off to track it’s movements, and monitor its operations.
As I recall the reason was the USN knew little about its operations as the Moskva-class ships seldom entered the Mediterranean. I recall seeing it once or twice during daylight hours. I was also disappointed to learn one morning that during the night, while I was sleeping, the Mitscher had been four miles off the coast of Egypt and I did not get to see it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva-class_helicopter_carrier .
A month or two later I left DDG35 from Barcelona to attend nuclear power school in Bainbridge, Md. My six months assigned to the ship are remembered because it’s the only time the USN showed me several parts of the world in a short period of time. After that it was only Hawaii, Guam, the inside of a submarine, or the wave tops of the Pacific viewed through the periscope a few times.
somebody is going to get keelhauled
It was a DRY dock, now it’s a WET dock!
Preferably keelhauled from bow to stern below an aircraft carrier only to be chopped up into shark bait when they hit the ships spinning propeller. And also preferably right over the top of the Marianna’s Trench in the Pacific Ocean off of Guam.
@Blink – I’ve seen video of aircraft launching off that curved deck. Really dumb.
BTW, I hear submariners do it deeper!
It’ll buff right out. No problem.
@ Jimmy. Ok then I stand corrected. Seemed crazy to me too. The odd thing is I had the thought that method of launching an aircraft made me think it would be like going the wrong way up a Skijump.
Then the darnedest thing was discovered – That’s exactly what they call it.
Testing showed that an F/A 18 Hornet could reduce take off roll distance by half using an incline of 9 degrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski-jump_(aviation) .
Sometimes subs do do it deeper. Too deep. This afternoon after checking out previews & reviews of the new movie, Hunter Killer. I turned to looking up pictures of the USS Thresher & USS Scorpion. The two USN nuc subs that were lost at sea. Essentially crushed like a light bulb descending below test depth. The crews probably died in milliseconds. Maybe a better deal than the crew of the Kursk. Wherein many struggled & suffered for four long days before perishing.
So thats where the relocated Chernobyl employees went.