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Photos of major damage to a Russian Navy submarine attacked while in dry dock in Crimea point to the boat being a complete write-off.

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may still be working. They should put some generals in it and take it for a test dive.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Put some oligarchs on it and send them to the Titanic.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good news is, the submarine is now even better at submerging rapidly.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But the drawback is that the number of submersion is reduced to one.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Yes yes... true...but the crush depth is greatly increased!

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If it's considered repairable, it's probably 2 years+.

The USS Ross is looking at almost two years for much needed maintenance repairs all over. 18 months on major repairs is generally considered rapid.

But, based on history, they'll go cheap with as many shortcuts as possible, so it'll be reactivated sooner than expected but sink a few months later, by its own accord. Obviously damaging the environment with it, or some other dramatic fuck up to deal with on top. It's the Russian way.

[–] Anonbal185@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There's actually a famous instance of it happening. K-19. They had to go into the reactor room to fix up the cooling because of botched manufacturing process.

What happened to them after can only be described as gruesome. I'd rather a bullet to the brain after.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original, non-edited picture has been floating around already for the last 24 hours, what an annoying pic to look at when it's blurred like that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Taken it to the Minecraft docks for repairs.

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

For a country with no large surface vessels, Ukraine's Navy is racking up quite a kill tally.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Anyone know why parts of the photos are censored?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The photos are from the Conflict Intelligence Team, who are not operating with permission from the Russian military.

Any accidental reflection, or visible detail that could identify people in the background or time the photo, could give the Russian police enough information to track down the photographer.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can't even squint some detail. They're gooood.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe so they won't know where it's being held?

Maybe it got moved to a new drydock to get fixed and they want to obscure where it is.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine holes on a submarine are a pretty dangerous thing, yeah.

And those are some very, ah, large, holes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just air conditioning.

[–] nrezcm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's where they plan to install their new screen doors.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Slava Ukraini!

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It'll come out with a bit of dish soap

[–] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Get the FLEX TAPE

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Russian submarine, go fuck yourself.