#Russian navy

[usafphantom2]

Yakovlev Yak-141 hovers at the 1992 Farnborough Airshow.

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[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Very Good Morning! Several Large Explosions and Fires are raging at the Port in the Crimean City of Feodosia on the Coast of the Black Sea, following Ukrainian Strikes against what is reported to be Russian and Iran Naval Vessels carrying Munitions; the Ukrainian Air Force is claiming to have Sunk the “Novocherkassk” (BDK-46), a Ropucha-Class Amphibious Landing Ship during the Attack.

P.S. While Trump and other idle talkers cool their mouths by engaging in lies and political demagoguery, Ukraine is effectively destroying - the military resources of the criminal regimes of Russia and Iran....The only way to achieve peace is to completely destroy the Russian army, navy and industrial resources throughout the territory of Russia....

[tomorrowusa]

People in Washington have belatedly been taking notice that Ukraine, a country with not much of a navy, has chased Putin's fleet out of much of the Black Sea. Things are relatively close to normal for Ukrainian grain exports which use shipping on that sea.

In the Black Sea, Ukraine forced the Russian fleet to retreat from the historic headquarters of Sevastopol in Crimea after hitting ships and key buildings repeatedly with drones and missiles. That was a personal blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who lauded the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.  The maritime success also opened a corridor for Ukraine to move grain shipments in defiance of Russia’s decision last summer to cancel an export deal, an economic and symbolic victory in the war.  “Ukraine won in the Black Sea,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a trip to Washington last month.  Zelensky has made the Black Sea victories a central part of his pitch to Western allies and supporters in the past couple of months — a sign of Ukrainian strength after the ground counteroffensive launched in June largely failed, delivering a stalemate on the frontlines of eastern Ukraine.  “This is huge,” said Olga Lautman, nonresident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. “They literally shifted the balance in the Black Sea. … Besides practically reopening the Black Sea, they’ve taken out Russia’s navy and pushed them out for the most part. And the attacks continue.”  Ukraine has maintained an edge in the waters of the Black Sea since the war began in February 2022 — and Kyiv does not have a naval force, let alone one the size of the Russian fleet.  In the early days of the war, Ukraine secured its hold on Odesa, a Black Sea port city in southern Ukraine, and sunk the Russian flagship the Moskva.  Ukrainian troops also liberated Snake Island, where defiant Ukrainian troops emerged famous for cursing at a Russian warship, in spring 2022.  In August, Ukraine stepped up attacks on the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, a hub for the Russian navy since Moscow annexed Crimea, but which has historical importance for Russia going back to the 1700s. In September, one strike damaged the headquarters of the Russian navy in Sevastopol. That month also saw Ukrainian special forces retake oil platforms in the Black Sea from Russia years after Moscow first seized them.  For the next two months, Ukraine kept assaulting Russian ships, leading to a full Russian naval retreat from Sevastopol and western Crimea.  After the fall attacks, Zelensky hailed Ukrainian forces for “pushing the Russian navy out to the eastern part of the Black Sea,” saying they “totally changed” the situation in the maritime domain.  “Russia can no longer use our sea to expand its aggression to other parts of the world,”  Zelensky said in an Oct. 31 address, “Ukraine’s success in the battle for the Black Sea will go down in history books, although it’s not being discussed much today.” 

It's become increasingly difficult for Russia to resupply its positions by sea. Last month Ukraine sunk a Russian ship loaded to the brim with munitions. This took place in Feodosia in occupied eastern Crimea which is only 100 km by road from Kerch where Ukraine damaged a bridge which connects occupied Ukraine to Russia.

Despite heavy and embarrassing losses, Putin will not give up his desire to conquer Ukraine unless he is forced to. Ukraine has been holding its own, but it needs help obtaining weapons and equipment. The GOP House of Representatives is holding up aid to Ukraine for its own political purposes. We need to contact our representatives and tell them to quit acting like Putin's agents on Capitol Hill.

Find out who your House member is.

Find Your Representative

Then contact him or her using the contact information given at the site. With Republicans, invoke the name of Ronald Reagan and insist that they quit supporting measures which help the Evil Empire. Be firm but polite.

[professorbumface1246899]

Yo who wants to buy a complete Russian submarine escape suit manufactured in 2012 with the under suit and repair kit I don't know why I disided to buy this but I've had it for about 2 years and I've disided I'm probably gonna sell it so I guess if you want it for whatever reason I'll give you the ebay link once I list it its also lined with kevlar and balconies rubber it doesn't come with the rebreather tho but to be fair that shit will get you killed but it does have a regulator adapter so if you wanna use it for diving you can it also has the weighted boots but I forgot to take a pick and I need to sell it to get money for night vision

[dougielombax]

Get fucked!

Make them eat shit!

Wait. Another one?!

They really do work fast.

I’m impressed.

[nocternalrandomness]

Russian Navy MiG-29K landing on the Indian Navy Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya in the Barent Sea

[lonestarbattleship]

Russian Dreadnoughts: Novorossiysk, Part II

"On the evening of October 28, 1955, Novorossiysk dropped anchor in Sevastopol. Following dinner, some 240 crewmen departed for shore, her captain and numerous senior officers included. Additional trainees and civilian workers came aboard, to prepare for the next cruise. All seemed normal. But, at 01:30 in the morning on the 29th, an explosion ripped through the water beneath the ship, blowing a hole directly up through the bow forward of Turret I. Sailors reported two distinct, back-to-back detonations from under the water's surface. The result was a tunnel of force that tore through every deck and vented out through the topside of the ship, bending the entire bow upwards and tearing a 68' long by 12' wide gash. Between 150-175 men were instantly killed.

The ship began to settle immediately. A slight list developed to starboard while the city and harbor came alive with emergency response efforts. Tugs began pushing the wounded ship towards shore, swinging her about by the stern. Other ships sent boats as well. But the situation seemed well in hand at first. Pumping oil to port had helped to correct the list by 02:00, and the ship was in marginally more shallow water. Evacuation was not ordered, and the majority of the roughly 1,600 men aboard were left to mill about on the main deck. The list continued to increase, though it was assumed the ship would settle upright due to the shallow water. This proved to be false; the list increased more and more rapidly until, at 04:14, the ship passed 18°, lost stability, and capsized into the soft mud of the harbor bottom. She had taken on 7,000 tons of water in the 2 hours and 43 minutes since the initial damage occurred. Devoid of reserve stability and overloaded by her 1953 refit, she took an estimated 621 men with her, including rescuers stuck aboard when the rolled over. The ship floated upside down until 22:00 that evening, allowing for the rescue of seven men from a hole cut in the stern. Rescue divers continued to work for another two days, pulling two men from an air bubble in the stern. No more knocking was heard past November 1.

The disaster continues to confound. An immediate Soviet official inquiry determined that an old German sea mine had exploded as a result of the ship's magnetic field. This theory remains the official cause, supported by an immediate dredging effort that turned up additional German mines from the area. However, a variety of factors have prompted questions: the presence of multiple explosions, the ability of a mine to produce such a directed blast, the irregular timing interval between mooring and explosion, and damage that is inconsistent with other mine-damaged large ships. In addition, a missing barge and some suspiciously clean metal debris found in the two shallow craters in the harbor floor sparked serious discussion of sabotage.

Though rather incredulous claims of Italian retribution including the admissions of aging ex combat divers within the past decade - have been mostly dismissed, there remains sufficient question about the cause of the disaster to leave the matter in dispute. Perhaps most relevant is the dismissal of the navy's commander-in-chief, at that point sick for five months, due to falling out of political favor. Nevertheless, since naval history is rife with situations of extreme misfortune based on miraculously slim odds, it also remains possible that mines were the cause.

Novorossiysk herself was salvaged using compressed air. Preparatory work for the salvage operation began in April 1956, and took over a year. On the morning of May 4, 1957, twenty-four compressors worked for four hours to push the sea out of the wreck and the ship finally broke the surface bow first; she is seen here in roughly that state, with the gaping damage to the bow clearly visible. After the installation of a pre-fabricated salvage facility on top of the wreck, she was towed out to Cossack Bay on 28 May. She was cut open to rid her magazines of their explosive contents, and then cut up for scrap, though there is some dispute about the details. X turret, which fell out during the refloating, was salvaged separately. Its guns were retained at the Naval School until the 1970s, when they were cut up as well."

Caption is exclusive to Haze Grey History Facebook page (link) and was shared with the permission of Evan Dwyer. Click this link to read more of his works. Photo is from the public domain.

[usafphantom2]

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[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Oops! Slightly damaged Novocherkassk (BDK-46), a Ropucha-Class Amphibious Landing Ship according to official Russian reports, Feodosia, Ukraine, December 26, 2023. Source: Special Kherson Cat

P.S. Good luck with visual identification! A Russian warship has been turned into a scrap heap!!! Good..., very good! The Ukrainian Air Force has done a very good, God-pleasing job at Christmas!!! Ukrainians are making a new page in naval history books...!!!

[brennacedria]

Holy crap this is just one coat of coverage.

[kp777]

Ukraine says a third of Russian warships in the Black Sea have been destroyed or disabled | PBS NewsHour

[usarmytrooper]

Russian sailor. Beautiful ice blue eyes, and a nice smile (especially for Russia, where people aren’t known for warm smiles). With the dumb moves Putin has made in Ukraine, it makes you wonder if this guy is even still alive. It’s kind of sad, really.

[nocternalrandomness]

Russian Naval Airpower

[lonestarbattleship]

Russian Dreadnoughts: Novorossiysk, Part I

"The Battleship Stalin had demanded from Italy came to fruition in 1949. Following WWII, the Allies had drawn 'lots' - groups of Italian ships - in 1948 to determine who got what. Either by design or extremely poor luck, the Soviets drew the lot that contained the aged, but rebuilt, dreadnought Giulio Cesare instead of a Littorio-class. Regardless, the Soviets stood poised to welcome a powerful addition to their Black Sea Fleet post-war.

Obstacles, however, remained. The Soviets wanted Italy to fund a complete refit of the battleship, which had been sitting in Taranto since June 1944. The Soviets also wanted a grandiose handover in Soviet waters. They would get neither. Italy refused to sail the ship to the Black Sea, and in December 1948 Turkey forbade it anyways by invoking a 1936 ban on non-Black Sea power warships greater than 15,000 tons in the Turkish Straits. Instead, Italy moved Cesare to Valona, Albania, in February 1949 after a hasty partial refit in Augusta. On February 6, 1949, the Italians handed her over in a tense exchange.

The Soviets steamed out of Albania on the 20th. The voyage to the Black Sea showed her flaws: none of the gauges had been translated, and many systems barely worked. Worse, the damage control post contained limited documentation, insufficient to actually keep the ship from sinking in case of disaster this last insult would come back to haunt the USSR six years later. The ship reached Sevastopol on the 26th, and in a ceremony on March 5 received the name Novorossiysk.

Novorossiysk's tribulations had just begun. It took the majority of the year to get the ship ready for service, and supply chains had to be built using reverse engineering. The ship had a recurring issue with mold, and no built-in mess space for meals, so habitability was abysmal. By the end of 1950, she was determined to be of more use as a training platform than as a primary combatant, and between exercises was constantly undergoing some sort of work; in six years, she would see the shipyard eight times, including a substantial and expensive modernization in 1953. The work done in 1953 was notable, as it installed radar, replaced the diesel generators, swapped the boilers out for domestic models, and replaced all Italian anti-aircraft guns with Soviet 37mm and 25mm types. That same year, Stalin died, and additional plans for the ship died with him - including a proposed domestic replacement of her main battery.

Two years later, on October 28, 1955, the battleship returned from gunnery exercises and moored at buoy no. 3 in Sevastopol. She had moored there ten times prior, beginning in 1954; the battleship Sevastopol had similarly dropped anchor and shackled to that same mooring buoy no fewer than 130 times in the past decade. But this time would be different."

Caption is exclusive to Haze Grey History Facebook page (link) and was shared with the permission of Evan Dwyer. Click this link to read more of his works. Photo is from the public domain, and depicts Novorossiysk ca. 1953.

[usafphantom2]

Yak-141

@FisherArts via X