This is one of the Ukrainian Navy ... err ..... finest?
What she looked like in her prime.
Sniff.
Hat tip AW1.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Make an old Sailor cry ....
Get out your RECCE quizzes from the'80s. Foxtail on the .....
This is one of the Ukrainian Navy ... err ..... finest?
What she looked like in her prime.
Sniff.
Hat tip AW1.
This is one of the Ukrainian Navy ... err ..... finest?
What she looked like in her prime.
Sniff.
Hat tip AW1.
Foxtrot class?
ReplyDeleteomg, if she moved on its own power imagine the signature from all the barnacles - though this would probably mask her on the surface as "old rusty trawler"...
ReplyDeleteShoud have followed your UN link first. Indeed a Foxtrot, the only sub in the navy, and, according to wiki, "inoperative".
ReplyDeleteCDR & others, if you ever happen to be in Belgium and want to see a Foxtrot from the inside, visit the port of Zeebrugge on the northern end of the Belgian coast: http://www.limburg-sensations.be/Chapters/West-Vlaanderen/Zeebrugge%20U-480(1).html
It's fairly unique in that there are only five other places in the world where you can see a Russian sub from within. I'd wager it's in far better shape than that poor Ukrainian vessel.
There is a Juliett in Providence, RI that looks similar in condition to that Foxtrot. Of course, the Juliett sank a few years ago in a storm and is waiting to be scrapped.
ReplyDeleteNice Foxtrot Tim!
ReplyDeleteHere is one of ours from ESSEX and VS 22 from 1967 in glorious B & W.
That's just wrong, even for a Soviet made sub. Poor thing.
ReplyDeleteThere are a whole number of images like these that should make any sailor weep.
ReplyDeleteScroll down the images at the link here and look at the sheer number of Russian warchips simply abandoned in place, capsized, sunk, etc.
http://englishrussia.com/?p=554
Reminds me of Dickens. The ghost of Christmas future.
ReplyDeleteThink Norfolk, 2018.
I fear we are nearing extremis on our present course and speed.
Oh, that's not worthy of any Naval vessel.
ReplyDelete<span>John makes a good point. What about some close-ups of the rusting hulks of the first few Ticonderogas, sitting in the inactive facility in Philly? They were not yet halfway through their service lives, yet there they sit. The ones that aren't sunk.
ReplyDeleteDitto the Spruances when retired, as well as a number of other still useful ship types. "Worn out" seems a eupehmism for lousy maintenance, and is a piss-poor excuse. Mothballs? NO! We decided on disposal, instead. As if preservation is too costly, but replacement is eminently affordable.
And what is the number one issue with the USN today?
SHIPBUILDING!</span>
but we have transformational LCS!
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seems after Soviets bankrupted themselves in rivalry with the US, US is going the same way in rivalry with itself... better is enemy of good!
Foxtrot!
ReplyDeleteWow, the stern on that thing looks just like a Type XXI.
ReplyDeleteIt'll make an old Submarine Sailor cry a little harder. Such a shame.
ReplyDeleteUrteter nuytre: http://imyafriv.001webs.com
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