What the hell does “crew properly maintained” mean lol? They aren’t exactly an engine boiler 😉

The ship was going to be decommissioned, why would it be well maintained?

This may as well have happened in a house. Fire + closed space = fatality.

He obviously meant keeping the crew well trained in silly little things like I dunno… fire fighting and damage control. Even if the ship is being decommed you keep the crew as well trained as possible.
The ship needs to be maintained until they day they turn out the lights to prevent things like short circuits from killing the people on board, you can’t just stop funding and training a ship on its way out or it will become a dangerous safety hazard to those still on board.

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That thing sure looks under armed.

That image is from 2003. A year later, she no longer has the Mk13 and STIR. So, wondering what “The frigate will be refurbished with anti-submarine missile and other latest systems at a cost of $ 65 million. ” wil entail.

Source of both photo’s: http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0708.htm

Just the launcher arm was removed and a plate bolted over where it used to be. None of the below spaces equipment was removed, just placed in layup and no longer maintained.

Let stay in the present days. A carrier group formed by the Kuznetsov, the Peter the Great, 2 Sovremenny class destroyers, 2 Udaloy class destroyer, an Oscar II SSGN and an Akula SS can be matched by a single USN carrier Group? I don’t think so. The problem for Russia is that can build just one Group of such a composition. Nevertheless, this group should rule the sea from Kola to Greenland.

Sure, whatever you say…:rolleyes:

No? considering the price of scrapping them or preparing them for scuttling, as opposed to making money and securing a regional ally, why not?

The navy usually makes money off of scraping of ships. A US carrier won’t be sold because the design is too similar to the in service CVN’s.
Add to that they are crew intensive and the Kitty Hawk wasn’t in good condition when she was retired.

Was the capsule one of their own design, or just a copy of a Russian one?

Ok…that wins!

*Shrug* :confused:

Kind of looks like a towed array sonar without the covering.