Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[76LD910]

Totally an accident completely unrelated to the war though, we might never know the cause of the unexplained fire. Luckily everyone made it off alive and they managed to save all the cruise missiles

That the Ukrainians were saying it was hit before Moscow released any statement about a problem with the ship was just Ukrainian propaganda that happened to be very well timed.

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

Each day, I'm thinking this could not get more embarrassing for Russia, and each day I'm wrong

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

 

[Balr0g]

They also attacked:

• A Swedish freighter
• A German freighter
• An American frieghter
• Another British flagged vessel
• Each other in friendly fire incidents several times

They drove their Admiral bugfuck insane to the point he had a nervous breakdown.

You are talking about the Russian 2nd Pacific squadron right?

And yeah the biggest clusterfuck was the crew of the Kamtschatka. According to Drachinfei when they were hailed by their own command the response was "Do you see torpedo boats?"

 

[YourFriendlyLurker]

There is a rumor (means UN-fucking-confirmed) that today the Commander of the South Fleet Admiral Osipov was also arrested. After Moskva...well the whole navy is gonna get something up their asses I guess.

 

[Techpriest]

Fun fact, the Ukrainians now have more Slava-Class cruisers in the Black Sea area than the Russians. Her uncompleted sister ship, Ukrayina, is still in Mykiolav.

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

Tsar Nicky Grade Copium

You are talking about the Russian 2nd Pacific squadron right?

And yeah the biggest clusterfuck was the crew of the Kamtschatka. According to Drachinfei when they were hailed by their own command the response was "Do you see torpedo boats?"

Yep. Absolute insanity from start to finish.

 

[Elbereth]

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

1. I am not ukrainan
2. That cope, tho

 

[cistendered]

Now that it's been confirmed that the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet has been sunk by Ukrainian F-35s, I look forward to the Allied amphibious assault on Mariupol (pictured).

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

(In the conditions of stormy sea waves, the cruiser "Moscow" sank.)

Stormy. When I looked earlier, that part of the Black Sea was sea state 3.

 

[TheTrumanShow]

Confirmation on the air of the TV channel "Russia-24".

(In the conditions of stormy sea waves, the cruiser "Moscow" sank.)
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I would feel so insulted nowdays of even being a Russian, stuck between the rock that is western caricature of me and my country and the hard place that is Putins North Korea level of nonsense.

 

[Techpriest]

Stormy. When I looked earlier, that part of the Black Sea was sea state 3.

>Sea State 3

If it went down in Sea State 3, there barely was a storm.

 

[YourFriendlyLurker]

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

1) That's a question of prestige. Only several countries nowdays can allow themselves operating cruisers, Russian is one of them,
2) Russia has no capabilities to build such ship anymore (even if it may not be needed in terms of modern war but still)
3) Moskva had S300 on board so she could kinda cover the air for the Rus army operating on the south. You can never have enough S300.
4) Turkey won't allow moving another such ship into Black Sea, not at least until the conflict is over
5) Taking into account the constant bullshit Rus MoD issues, we know nothing about the casualties. But if the damage was enough that the ship needed to be towed...idk man, I won't believe in zero causalties
6) That was a beautiful ship

 

[draggs]

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

The Moskva was a floating air defense system that gave Russia very good radar coverage over a large area of southern and eastern Ukraine, it is not an insignificant loss lol the cope rises

Now we're up to thousands of hohols surrendering lol where? Amazing how 1000 (hohols say 200, not 1000) goes to 1000s when Russia needs some sweet cope

 

[pisswomble]

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

Have some self-respect son, this is embarrassing to read.

 

[Elbereth]

APOLOGIZE.

 

[Nopenopenope]

Burger writes post decrying how shit Pajeets are at engineering. ( Checks notes ) American hi-tec is utterly reliant on Indian engineers because their Jew owners worked out they’ll work for peanuts. Burger then goes onto explain that China will never ever surpass America coz they’re not as good as Americans at STEM.

Also American woke universities game the system to exclude Asians otherwise there classes would be 90% Chinamen.

You can’t make this shit up. Cope thy name is burger

Actually I'm a bong you stupid faggot. And I'm not talking about faggy silicon valley bullshit, I mean actual building things with your hands, repairing a machine that keeps the lights on, etc

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

The Moskva was a floating air defense system that gave Russia very good radar coverage over a large area of southern and eastern Ukraine, it is not an insignificant loss lol the cope rises

Now we're up to thousands of hohols surrendering lol where? Amazing how 1000 (hohols say 200, not 1000) goes to 1000s when Russia needs some sweet cope

It's not a cope, it's a bad look but my point was that it isn't going to harm their war efforts which is what actually matters.

 

[Techpriest]

It's not a cope, it's a bad look but my point was that it isn't going to harm their war efforts which is what actually matters.

No, this harms war efforts immensely as now the blockade can be challenged by further naval strikes, any amphibious outflanking of the lines west of the Dnipr is pretty much not happening and Ukrainian drones have a better chance of sneaking into Crimea again to blow up shit. It's also a huge slap in the face to Russia on top of all of that.

 

[draggs]

It's not a cope, it's a bad look but my point was that it isn't going to harm their war efforts which is what actually matters.

Yeah no. They have to replace the capabilities the Moskva provided. If it wasn't providing value to them they wouldn't have been spending the money and supplies to have it on station

They can't replace those capabilities with another ship, they're going to have to move more S- systems or EWACS/AWACs planes in

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Aren't American electronics largely outsourced to Taiwan, among other places?

Yes. Taiwan Semiconductor is now probably the main reason China wants to take Taiwan.

 

[UVB-76]

It was a 40 year old ship that most likely malfunctioned, but even if the Ukrainians had actually attacked it, it means almost nothing in terms of the actual conflict, it hadn't been used in combat and this event isn't going to harm the Russian's ability to wage the war. There weren't even any casualties, all of the sailors were evacuated. What's actually embarrassing is having thousands of your soldiers surrender which is what is happening to the holols.

I think this marks the turning point of the thread.
We are now at the point where we're seriously arguing about whether or not losing a warship matters in a war.