Posted on 07/21/2023 1:40:13 PM PDT by Mariner
Days after Russia issued a warning against vessels sailing to Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet conducted live-fire drills in that body of water, sinking a vessel it captured from Ukraine in 2014.
The Tarantul-III class missile corvette Ivanovets “carried out live firing of anti-ship cruise missiles at a target ship” in a combat training rage in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said Friday on its Telegram channel.
The ship reportedly fired P-270 Moskit supersonic anti-ship missiles, whose NATO reporting name is the SS-N-22 Sunburn. They have conventional and nuclear warhead capacity, are capable of flying at a speed three times the speed of sound and have a range of around 75 miles. The missiles were aimed at the corvette Ternopil, according to the Ukrainian OperativnoZSU Telegram channel. The Ternopil, once one of Ukraine's most capable warships, was captured by Russia when it seized Crimea in 2014. The Russian MoD released video showing the missiles being launched, then the target vessel exploding. The target was destroyed, according to the Russian MoD.
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There can be no doubt that the Black Sea Fleet can turn the entirety of its namesake body of water into a super anti-ship missile engagement zone. These weapons, various in type and abilities, are packed aboard much of the fleet, from small fast patrol vessels to frigates. In addition, air-launched anti-ship cruise missiles are an equal threat, as are shore-based coastal defense systems which employ similar weapons. Russia has a lopsided advantage in this regard regionally to almost a stunning degree. In other words, the sample threat shown in this propaganda exercise is very real.
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After all, it's their own private lake.
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For those that don’t know, Corvettes are where you store Classified Documents.
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From the headline, I pictured a corkscrew warhead of some sort that would punch a hole in the hull.
> Days after Russia issued a warning against vessels sailing to Ukrainian Black Sea ports… <
So what would Russia do if a commercial vessel flying the flag of a NATO country entered a Ukrainian Black Sea port? Would Russia try to sink it?
NATO does stupid and provocative things. I would hope Russia does not respond in kind in this particular instance. Truly nothing good can come of it.
“ Ominous”
They just can’t help themselves
The article said they were also practicing interdiction and boarding.
It’s a lie!!!! The RuZZZZZians were just throwing shovels at it.
When will our despicable leader ship admit that Russia is probably outproducing the West in armaments now?
“I pictured a corkscrew warhead”
It’s called the auger-tipped clam-sucker missile
Can’t help myself
“NATO does stupid and provocative things. I would hope Russia does not respond in kind in this particular instance. Truly nothing good can come of it.”
And Russia doesn’t?
Yup Putin is as pure as the driven snow.
Right up to when they reach Ukrainian SAM range.
Not impressed, shooting at a stationary target vessel that doesn't shoot back.
They just can’t help themselves
Neither can the US
> Yup Putin is as pure as the driven snow. <
Sorry. I should have been clearer in my last post. I consider Putin to be a war criminal (a search of my previous posts on the subject will verify this).
Over the decades NATO has done many things to provoke Russia. But Putin wildly overreacted. He crossed a sovereign border. He’s now killing innocents and breaking things. This makes Putin a war criminal, in my eyes.
By the way, I see Bush II in the same light. Saddam Hussain did some provocative things. Bush II overreacted. Bush II is as great a war criminal as is Putin. Of course, neither man will see justice on this Earth.
Meanwhile, widows cry.
“Not impressed, shooting at a stationary target vessel that doesn’t shoot back.”
There is not a Navy in the world, none of them, that would challenge Russia in the Black Sea.
But that probably is not impressive to you either, as you are guided by your emotions, and you emotions have made you a Ukrainian partisan.
putin/russia is evil and proud of it!
What Moskva doink?
Tell your Putin to pay compensation to the families of the dead Moskva sailors.
Cool. Russian can sink a vessel that isn’t moving around nor shooting back.
I could probably sink a ship under those conditions.
“For those that don’t know, Corvettes are where you store Classified Documents.”
The boxes are too big to put into Corvettes.
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