Current photo of the Ursa major, now promoted to Russian submarine.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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Looks like the Ursa Major went for a Big Dipper :>
Dang.
Maybe withdraw from Ukraine and this stops happening, you dig?
Okay this must be sabotage or something? Pretty big coincidence to have so many so quickly.
I think the first 2 at least were very unlikely to be sabotage. They were reconstructed, and the welding from that was not strong enough for the task.
Of course sabotage is a possibility, but Russia is driving everything beyond their limits. Even workers are demanded to work insane hours where shortage is worst.
Russia is destroying itself from the inside. If they get a little help from Ukrainian sabotage, it only means it will go a bit faster.
But Russian infrastructure is collapsing because it's poorly maintained and pushed beyond limits.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Or by incompetence. Or by neglect. Or by corruption. Or by vodka.
All those things existed before. Perhaps something changed in their ship maintaining routine to cut costs.
I’d like to highlight the Admiral Kuznetsov. Here’s my personal favorite from the wiki page
On 30 October 2018, the ship was damaged when Russia's biggest floating drydock, PD-50, sank, causing one of its 70-ton cranes to crash onto the ship's flight deck, leaving behind a 19-square-metre (200 sq ft) hole. One person was reported missing and four were injured as the drydock sank in Kola Bay. The ship was in the process of being removed from the dock when the incident occurred and was towed to a nearby yard after the incident.[11] The cost of repairing the damage was estimated to be RUB 70 million (about US$1 million).[75] The fallen crane was removed by the end of 2018.
We should be thanking for the Russians for all the new constructed coral reefs they've been creating.
Whoopsie-doodle.
What's the water version of 🌻?
I heard in Russian news that this is all according to plan, they are trying to recover the lost sub.
/s