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I’d say “sinking your floating dry dock because your emergency generators had no diesel” is a grade higher than “major fuckup” 🤣
Also selling off diesel appears to be as much a Russian tradition as drinking vodka at this point
Big dreams of being a submarine. You can do it, buddy. >

The floating dock used to service the carrier already sunk a few years ago, I'm sure the ship is next. >

That aircraft carrier is nothing but a floating dock anyway. Did Xzibit set this up? Yo dog! I heard you like floating docks so I put a floating dock on your floating dock!
Seriously: it only moves when towed by tugboats, which are basically sea tractors. >

I can’t help but laugh at the image in my head of a Ukrainian farmer ~~stealing~~ towing the dock with a sea tractor. >

You laugh, but it might just happen! Not because they’re afraid of the military threat that piece of shit represents, but the long-term environmental impact of it getting anywhere near your own country’s aquatic ecosystem. That aircraft carrier is nothing more than a floating superfund site. >

Imagine Ukrainian fishing boats bringing in their big "catch" >

Wouldn’t be the first time a Russian fleet lost to fishing boats. >

Goddamn it Kamchatka >

Aurora shivers in her moorings at the thought of her own navy firing anything near her. >

Again? >

Wait, OP's article says the ship has been in dry dock undergoing repairs since 2018. So it's caught on fire twice while in dry dock? >

The dry dock also sank.

In November 2018, it was damaged by a falling 70-ton crane from the floating dry dock PD-50 and a fire that killed two during the refit. The dry dock, which sank due to a power outage while holding Admiral Kuznetsov, was vital to repairing the carrier, which changed its estimated return to service to 2022 or later. >

Now I'm imagining Putin being in that scene from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.   

We built an aircraft carrier and it caught on fire.   
We put it in dry dock for repairs and it caught fire again and the dock sank.   
But the next time we fix it.... >

You fucker I typed my reply out all smug, hit submit and then saw yours. >

Well you see the fronts not supposed to fall off. >

Well what happened? >

Well the front fell off in this case, by all means, but it's very unusual. >

Why did the front fall off? >

well, a wave hit it. >

Again? What is thing made from? Those novelty candles that won't blow out? >

Cardboard or cardboard derivatives.
They're lucky the front hasn't fallen off. >

What’s the minimum crew requirement? >

Uh, one I suppose? >

So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this? >

Well it was towed outside the environment. >

There’s nothing out there. All there is is sea and birds and fish. And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And a fire. And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But there’s nothing else out there. It's just a complete void. >

Can you call a cab?
I thought you arrived in a government car
Well I did but the front fell off. >

Its okay, it was overdue to do this again >

Is normal, shows she is fiery and passionate about war >

I disagree. She, like so many of her smaller siblings in the Russian Navy, yearn to explore the bottom of the sea >

It’s pining for the ^(bottom of the) fjords >

Let's hope it's soon to be an ex-aircraft carrier. >

I disagree. 
The more resources they pour into that useless coal rolling piece of shit the better. >!i know it doesn’t burn actual coal!< >

At this point they’d probably be bringing steamer ships back into service if they had any >

Would probably be more reliable. Might be a win for them if they did.
Also aren't MOST ships technically steam ships in that they create steam to drive the props? >

Lol this is just an endless clown show >

It's funny in a way. Zelensky is a comedian that became a president. Putin is a president that turned out just a clown. >

Sadly an evil clown with lots of cannon fodder and nukes. >

We don't need to jerk him off by mentioning nukes every time. He already can't go a couple days without a "durr but nukes tho". >

True. I mostly agree.
But I also think it's dangerous to see Putin as just a bad joke. He's getting plenty of people killed every day.
And when it comes to "news" from Russia (meaning Putin or official channels) I have learned to completely ignore everything since months ago.
All the crap they spew exists mostly for internal consumptions and some sad fanboys they still have around the world. It's just one insane claim/threat/empty warning/insanity after another. Not worth listening to at all. They are just playing macho men for their own propaganda TV. >


And when it comes to "news" from Russia (meaning Putin or official channels) I have learned to completely ignore everything since months ago.

It's actually pretty informative if you interpret everything as projection and insecurity. >

No wonder trump loved Russia so much. He's just like em >

For the people unaware of her history - this has likely nothing to do with Ukraine. 
That carrier is just cursed and extremely unreliable. It spends more time in repairs than at sea. Things like this has happened multiple times before. >

It kind of has to do with Ukraine. When she was built (back then her name was Riga, then Leonid Brezhnev, then Tiblissi: just ask any sailor about their superstitions related to changing a ships name), she was built in the only shipyards that could build and berth ships of that class in the entire Soviet Union, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
After the August Revolution, the crew of Admiral Kuznetzov, under orders of the Commander of the Northern Fleet, left Sevastopol so it wouldn't be lost to now-independent Ukraine.
Now here's the thing: the only ports with infrastructure to run and maintain the ship were in Ukraine, to which Russia didn't have access.
Now here's the funny thing: when docked, ships usually get power from the port electrical facilities, but Vidaveyo, her new safe harbour, didn't have the capacity to supply the necessary power to a ship that size. The end result? They needed to keep her boilers working non-stop for years. The result was that the ship's power plant was overused by the time they actually got to deploy her.
Now it's very unlikely that Ukraine would be able to use the ship at all. They managed to retain the Varyag, her sister ship and later sold her to a Chinese Tycoon who was going to build a floating hotel out of her, but then gave it to the PLAN (now she's called Liaoning). >

Why couldn't they build a dock for it that could supply power and/or support it with repairs? Aircraft carriers are powerful and important enough that it seems like that would have been a priority at some point in the last 20 or so years. >

They have actually allocated funds for 7 docks for her >

And got 14 super yachts for their money. >

At least the boat money was actually used for boats >

Baby steps >

Kuznetsov is like the war in Ukraine. Everyone knows Russians should fucking quit trying to make it work but they are too proud and stupid to do so. >

It's killed more Russians than it's killed enemies >

It projects clouds of toxic smoke further than it does Russian jets. >

LOL I had actually forgotten it's not nuclear.  No joke, just pumping out clouds of poison >

My dad had a buddy who was in the Navy for 20+ years and at one point he did a military exchange program with the Russians, spending a month on one of their ships. He said it was terrifying, they don’t give a shit about maintenance or safety. He said the fire extinguishers had literally been painted over so much that they were just a part of the wall, there was no way to get them out and use them. No fire drills, nothing. Russian ships catching on fire doesn’t surprise me after hearing that, and that was 20 years ago at this point. >

I saw a picture from the Moskva where the door to one of the guns was open with rounds stashed in the hallway. Do you want secondaries? Because that’s how you get your ship ripped up by secondaries. >

That's what it always does. They have to have a tugboat follow it because it's always breaking down. >

Imagine being in a hot war scenario, and you have to call-time out so the tug boat can come collect your only carrier >


Russia's Only Aircraft Carrier Has Caught Fire

Again. >


…. while docked

Of course. >

At this point I can't imagine a situation in which this thing is ever operational. Even if they do get it running one day, it serves Russia no purpose whatsoever. Try to imagine a scenario that it makes any sense for Russia to load it with jets and head out to attack something. It'd be the most high value sitting duck target on Earth. >

If it’s smoking, they must have got it running. >

"What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?" >

A russian machine to cut an apple into four pieces >

I remember recently reading something about how the carrier operates using some sort of oil that needs to be heated first before being used. Also that when its out to sea, it is accompanied by a tugboat due to it breaking down so often. >

A lot of larger ships run on heavy fuel oil to be fair. Commercial freight ones anyway, I'm not sure how usual it is for Aircraft Carriers. >

Pretty unusual, since most of the world's aircraft carriers are US, and US aircraft carriers are nuclear powered. >

Though they used to run off of bunker C for the last conventionally powered ones like Kitty Hawk and JFK. I know the Iowa class battleships were converted to diesel fuel late in their carrers though, do the carriers may have been as well, but I'm unsure >

They were. The USN gave up on NFO (essentially Bunker C) and NSFO (Bunker C diluted some with marine diesel) in the late 60s and conversions to DFM (diesel fuel marine, close to marine diesel) finished in the early 70s.
Something about heating combustibles (for certain values of combustible) to 200F and pressurizing it to 1000 psi, along with having to clean boiler firesides every week due to the clinker build up. >

I think you meant that Russia's only aircraft carrier's no fire streak ended.
It has been 0 days fire free.
Between this and China having bought one of Russia's carriers to save from being a hotel is hilarious. >

Every single time I read about shit with this Russian carrier, I hear the Benny Hill theme in my head. This shit is fucking comical, the ship has been dry docked for repairs for 4 years, and apparently little to no progress has been made and they've already had several major fuckups at that dry dock. Now somehow the fucking thing caught fire. 
The "might of the Russian military" has always been nothing but a massive bluff, unfortunately for them Ukraine call that bluff and it has laid bare their complete ineptitude.