(April 14, 2022 at 2:59 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The unspoken question is did Moskva have nuclear weapons onboard.
These ships were designed to fire a volley of long range nuclear tipped supersonic anti-ship missiles at American carriers at the beginning of WWIII and then turn around and get out of dodge, which accounts for its layout of all the cruise missile tubes being angled to fire forwards, while the defensive surface to air missiles are on the back, and positioned so they can’t even engage air targets dead ahead.
(April 14, 2022 at 2:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Doesn’t speak well for the Russian navy.
Boru
To be honest, that may not represent a great degradation in the routine practice of the Russian navy since the fall of the USSR.
During the thaw at the end of the Cold War, one of Moskva’s sister ships visited Norfolk naval base. One of the odd things the Americans noticed is the door of the missile tubes are all sealed shut by encrusted paint. Clearly the missile tube doors have not been opened since before the ship had been repainted several times. Given the ship was 5 years old at the time, the observers estimated the missile tube doors have never been opened since the ship was new.
Again…
Boru
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