Looks like a terrible storm.
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Talk that 450 KIA.
War is scaryā¦
Vapour curtainā¦
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That seems hard to believe , but if everything was incinerated internallyā¦ Might depend on how many were plucked from the ocean if they all abandoned ship.
Horrendous. No way I could serve in the Navy.
450 out of 550 crew complement killed, pretty horrendous. The damage is severe in the most populated crew spaces.
Iām skeptical.
510ish crew capacity and it looks like a fair number should have been able escape, given itās still afloat there. Unless the fire/smoke spread to all crew areas really quickly.
*Edit: plus @Benny40 mentioning the life boats had launched.
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Well they would have been at ābattle stationsā or whatever itās called if the talk about a Tb2 decoy is correct. So the crew shouldnāt have literally been napping.
But the complete Russian silence on the fate of the crew is somewhat portentous.
Cute dress.
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It was evacuated in a pretty heavy storm too, itās possible many who made it out into the water may have drowned or been lost to the black sea
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Notice the list to port?. Thereās clearly a hull breach and its taking water.
This was centre of Black Sea Naval operations, a lot of the crew would have been involved in Command, Control and Communications so might have been located in the bridge area, where it scored at least one direct hit. I would suggest many of those would have been killed in that hit as someone pointed out, the crew were probably at battlestations.
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I think the most powerful evidence that the casualties were massive is the complete silence from the Russian government. Their state media is barely covering the loss of the ship and have said nothing about the crew. Thereās a complete lockdown on info about the fate of the conscripts onboard.
Conscripts? Wouldnāt they have a professional crew on their āflagshipā?
Catering, random roles like that. Iāve seen a translation of father campaigning to find out the fate of his conscript son who had been transferred onto the ship.
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Keep in mind that this was only a flagship in lieu of being able to get anything else through Turkey. Everything I read suggests it was relatively old tech and more or less ready for pensioning off. Possibly including the crew.
The article is pay to view, but the diagram is quality and the replies are well informed.
Did it go through the straits at all in 2022? Its home port is Sevastopol and it seemed to roam from there in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
There would be better ships in the Mediterranean that would have taken the role of flagship. They couldnāt get through Turkey. So they were left with the dregs of the navy floating in the Black Sea.
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