One of the things to remember is that the Russian cruiser Moskva carries 16 × P-500 Bazalt ASMs in external launch tubes. Each weighs about 10,600lbs, and is made up of mostly explosive stuff. A hit to any of these units may cause some serious damage, or an "ammunition explosion" pic.twitter.com/PxL1Mus5wG
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 14, 2022
Captain Positivity said:
The first battalion was not scheduled to be fully online until April. They probably don't have a whole lot of these.
Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
— Agatha 💉🐀🌊🎃☠️🕷️🧟⚰️🪦 (@Agatha__X) April 14, 2022
Does any of Russia's hi tech stuff work at any type of reasonable rate?Captain Positivity said:
Big loss. Gives them way less flexibility in how they protect southern Ukraine and Crimea from drone strikes. I'm trying to do some fast research but I'm pretty sure it had some fairly advanced radars that could be used as an early warning system for the ground-based sites as part of an integrated defense. Not sure how successfully integrated anything is with Russian forces, though.
It had six CIWS systems that are designed to shoot down these sorts of attack missiles, I suppose they failed.
The sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War?Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
Sorry to bring this post back up, but would this not mean resources will drain faster? They aren't getting sufficiently resupplied, if at all, in that city.Rossticus said:In Mariupol, units of the 36th Marine Brigade made complex maneuvers to break through and joined the Azov Bataillon. As a result, Azov received significant reinforcements, the Marines escaped defeat in parts and received additional opportunities — Oleksiy Arestovych
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) April 13, 2022
Thats my guess.74OA said:The sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War?Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
74OA said:The sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War?Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
74OA said:
The report said the Ukrainians distracted the Moskva with a TB-2 and then fired a Neptune at it. IIRC, older radars and battle management systems cannot conduct both antimissile and anti-aircraft functions at the same time, so I wonder if focusing on the TB-2 is what allowed the Neptune to strike undetected?
The Argentinians lost 11 ships during that war. With the biggest loss being the Gen. Belgrano where they lost 380+ sailors. The Brits also had some losses from Exocet missiles.black_ice said:Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
Falklands
French Exocet missiles to be exact.JB!98 said:The Argentinians lost 11 ships during that war. With the biggest loss being the Gen. Belgrano where they lost 380+ sailors. The Brits also had some losses from Exocet missiles.black_ice said:Rossticus said:
Someone mentioned that this may be the most significant military naval loss to a country since WW2. Can anyone think of one approaching this in the last 80 years?
Falklands
Meritocracy will always defeat the autocracy because you promote the best, not the most corrupt. Boom!agent-maroon said:74OA said:
The report said the Ukrainians distracted the Moskva with a TB-2 and then fired a Neptune at it. IIRC, older radars and battle management systems cannot conduct both antimissile and anti-aircraft functions at the same time, so I wonder if focusing on the TB-2 is what allowed the Neptune to strike undetected?
Whoever came up with this idea is a world class tactician. Clever doesn't even begin to describe it IMO
Seems like a big flaw.74OA said:
The report said the Ukrainians distracted the Moskva with a TB-2 and then fired a Neptune at it. IIRC, older radars and battle management systems cannot conduct both antimissile and anti-aircraft functions at the same time, so I wonder if focusing on the TB-2 is what allowed the Neptune to strike undetected?
I think it’s time to evacuate the Ukrainians Kyiv military HQ’s
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 14, 2022
Agthatbuilds said:I think it’s time to evacuate the Ukrainians Kyiv military HQ’s
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 14, 2022
Have a feeling Russia is going to look for some payback. They already said earlier today they could be looking to target CC sites (amazing they didn't do this on hour 1 of the invasion).Agthatbuilds said:I think it’s time to evacuate the Ukrainians Kyiv military HQ’s
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 14, 2022
Yup. There it is, yet another confirmation.
— Anton Barbashin (@ABarbashin) April 13, 2022
Propaganda in Russia further insists that Russia is fighting NATO. That helps explain:
- casualties;
- amount of "disinformation" as in "Bucha fake"
- sanctions & further economic losses;
- longevity of conflict
- overall fatalism https://t.co/gXfg1hbnVJ
The crazy thing is this is something our Carrier groups train for regularly. Also my money is on 200 to 300 hands lost minimum. Hit it at around midnight or 1 AM capsized almost immediately and called sinking very fast. Best case they were doing 4 on 4 off during a change but most likely lots of people would have had trouble getting into the water in the dark with 6 to 8 foot seas and 25 mph + winds. What a nightmare for those sailors.agent-maroon said:74OA said:
The report said the Ukrainians distracted the Moskva with a TB-2 and then fired a Neptune at it. IIRC, older radars and battle management systems cannot conduct both antimissile and anti-aircraft functions at the same time, so I wonder if focusing on the TB-2 is what allowed the Neptune to strike undetected?
Whoever came up with this idea is a world class tactician. Clever doesn't even begin to describe it IMO
Imo low sonar profile UUWV drones swarms are a worse threat in the not too distant future. Fighting things under the water is hard already.PA24 said:
The future for warships are much like tanks. Sitting ducks with today's GPS type drones and tactical weapons.
The days of conventional WW2 sea battles are gone.
Trump was right, space force is the new high ground.
#Russia #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: Quite recent photo of a combatant from #Chile 🇨🇱 (member of #Ukrainian TDF).
— War Noir (@war_noir) April 13, 2022
He also appears to be using a noteable M240B machine gun as well. pic.twitter.com/0MIjdSI4LS
PA24 said:
The future for warships are much like tanks. Sitting ducks with today's GPS type drones and tactical weapons.
The days of conventional WW2 sea battles are gone.
Trump was right, space force is the new high ground.
I mean, there's some truth to all of that, which makes it effective propaganda.Rossticus said:Yup. There it is, yet another confirmation.
— Anton Barbashin (@ABarbashin) April 13, 2022
Propaganda in Russia further insists that Russia is fighting NATO. That helps explain:
- casualties;
- amount of "disinformation" as in "Bucha fake"
- sanctions & further economic losses;
- longevity of conflict
- overall fatalism https://t.co/gXfg1hbnVJ
