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Russian landing ship Caesar Kunikov sunk off Crimea
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68292602
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......
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.
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.
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Old? What are you talking about this just happened yesterday
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
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
Lots of thing are supposed to be but aren't. Moskva had CIWS but sank with its targeting radar in transit position ie it was never engaged
Well, you have to calculate how much water and frozen mud the Kuznetsov has inside him. How floaty is "floating"?
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%
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".