Discover the reasons behind Russia’s troubled Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, from its history of disasters to the corruption that plagued the Russian military. Explore the story of its sister ship, Liaoning, and its transformation into a successful aircraft carrier.
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No, let them love it to death!
Burn that money burn ……………..
Russia made 2.5 billion in new warships , and the wealthy Russians 4.5 billion on there new fleet ………………..lol
Russians killing Russia …………. to funny !
This is why Ukraine will win.
Russian sailors are certainly brave, because all of their ships since before the Russo-Japanese war are nothing more than glorified tin cans that sink to the bottom faster than any other ship in the world.
Comparing the British Navy to the Russian Navy is a little unfair. Britain is an island nation and it sustainably more important for them to exert power on the seas. Russia is a land power. Most of Russia's military spending SHOULD logically go towards its army whereas that isn't the case for Britain.
You're fastly becoming just a bald spacker who's obviously being paid to do anti Russian videos.
Given the poor maintenance in the Russian navy.
It is possible the Moskva sunk itself
“He took a bow after his performance”. “She placed a bow upon the gift”. Same thing, only different.
How did the Russians manage to sink a drydock?
Well, it's hard to say that Ukraine is giving Russia a tough time, yes it's the Ukrainian troops who are fighting in the ground but everything else, such as the money to sustain it's resistance or the arms and ammunition are all NATO's. So it's more of a Russia-NATO war that is currently on. So it's not surprising that Russia is having a tough time, rather it shows that Russia is still standing on it's feet even after facing pressure from so many directions.
Man those Russians have been smoking in the wrong places for almost a decade now.
so if you have karge enuff barge where you can land an aircraft most times, and store some its classified as Aircraft carrier?
Or is Russia only country which is operating and Aircraft Barge?
I was stationed on the Spruance class Destroyer USS Deyo, DD-989. Near the end of our 3-91 Med deployment, this was in November, the Russian Navy decided to move their carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, from the Black Sea, out of the Med and up to join their Northern Fleet. We were supposed to head out with the battle group, but were tasked to stay behind and 'escort' the Kuznetsov out of the Med. They didn't even have an airwing on board. Since we were an 'OUTBOARD'(Organizational Unit Tactical Baseline Operational Area Radio Detection Countermeasures Exploitation System) equipped ship, the Navy decided we should tag along and do our thing, which is monitor, record and classify any electronic signals etc.
The Kuznetsov wasn't smoking like she does now, she was pretty new at the time. During the move, I managed to get a couple of photos. Also with Kuznestsov was the Krivak II Pytlivyy, 808. At one point, the Russian Krivak put a floating package in the water. We fished it out and it was wrapped in a Newspaper and contained a bottle of wine, some ships hats and stuff like that. We in turn put together a package for them to pick up. Once they left the Med we caught up with our battle group to complete the transit back to Charleston, we got back on 21 Dec 1991.
You have to wonder, if the Russian military are in such desperate straits, in what condition is the RU nuclear arsenal?….is all the "magic sauce" still there or has it been stolen and sold off?
Russia had money. It had so much money from all the sale of oil. It was the corruption. I'm beginning to realize it's Ukraine that was responsible for any technical advancement or maintenance of the USSR. If its any consolation at all to Ukraine, they can laugh their hearts out at how pathetic Russia's aircraft carrier is, the one they stole from Ukraine.
Just reading the description made me think "they have a carrier". Then the opening of the video made me realize whatever they built was probably in a hurry and not that good
Listen to the first 2 minutes. Now switch the names. Congratulations, you have created Russian propaganda. So who's telling the truth: US/UK or Russia?
Really makes you think about where our taxes in general go. Millionaire politicians.
Once the corrupt leadership is finally gone for good the Russian defense budget will become less of an issue. Sad to see what Putin is doing to his people and world relations.
Less than two and a half minutes in, and the amount of disingenuous language and deceptive omissions force me to conclude that this is, yet again, another propaganda piece from Simon. Getting a balanced picture of the facts does require some active searching, but it really shouldn't be that difficult, for the professional researchers behind major YouTube channels. I guess the issue is with the temptation of cherry picking, and suspicion and prejudice against any sources contradicting Western mainstream media and official Western sources. I could watch the video, and then fill out the holes with additional information, but I don't have the energy, and no one would have the energy to read it; there would be a lot. Just what little I've seen contains so many statements that require so much correction that it would fill a dozen paragraphs like this one. Don't worry; I'm keeping it meta, and writing only one more paragraph.
I'm not upset that there's an anti-Russian bias. Russia's behavior in this has been as despicable as that of Western nations in Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, and other places, all of which disgusted me at the time, and still do. I'm good with an anti-Russian angle (as long as it's anti-government and not anti-people), at least when it comes from people who join me in denouncing all war crimes, regardless the nationality of the involved. I'm upset because simplistic descriptions and selective information has contributed strongly to getting, by best independent estimates, about 200,000 Ukrainian and 20,000 Russian soldiers killed in a needless war, and, by statistical likelihood, at least twice that injured (depending on the type of fighting, by rule of thumb, injured make up between 2/3 and 4/5 of casualties). I'd talk about civilian casualties, but I don't know of any good, independent (as in not heavily relying on numbers from one of the parties) estimates. The idea that Ukraine can win, or even fight itself to a better negotiating position, is a major contributing factor to getting literally hundreds of thousands killed, most of them Ukrainian (though the nationality should make no difference to decent people).
The whole Europe and Nato are fighting the Russians…. so yeas it's going slow.
We need a anime lovestory about The Kutznetsov and its loyal tugboat
Did it ever sail with dignity to begin with?
If Stalin was still around the Captain wouldn’t have had to worried about a third accident happening 💀
Spoiler, neither of them are fit to sail
The USS Nimitz CVN68 is 55 years old and still in active service, but capitalism sucks right?
What's interesting is that the People's Republic of China is ALSO a DEEPLY corrupt dictatorship, but it goes to show how much more corrupt Russia is that the Admiral Kuznetsov gets this treatment from the Kremlin
Lazerpig > any neutral broadcasting = you
Wow …. “we” found something else which isn’t perfect about Russia’s navy ….. how about finding more issues – in hind sight of course – which aren’t perfect about Russia’s army ???? Luckily everything we do in the West is perfect ….. especially the war propaganda …. 😅😅😅😅
In the first place, Admiral Kuznetsov is not officially even aircraft carrier, it`s only heavy aircraft carrying cruiser class, and most shittiest cruiser of the world. HAHA (what a coffin). It´s have only one functional fuel preheating boiler, and because of this (without tugs) max. speed is 7knots! 300m long joke!
Remember when world peace was a goal? Now we just mock/cheer on the countries fighting each other.
Remember that whenever you start to think we are just so much more sophisticated than the Roman’s with their blood sport and colosseums.
Russia managed to sell an aircraft carrier to India. Wow. didn't India see that coming?
No controversy. Just a Russian POS vessel. Poor design, poor concept, poor maintenance. Idiots running it. Orc world is a world of idiocracy and decrepitude. Oh and corruption but those billionaire oligarchs have done so much for Russia.
Pfff. Russia is ridiculous
That ship is a joke. It needs a tugboat because the propulsion system breaks down all the time.
The Admiral Kuznetsov is proof that even the legendary robust design of Soviet military equipment has it's limit.
The sad part is, it should be a very capable ship. The fact the Royal Navy still goes nuts every time the ship enters the North Sea just in case she IS working shows this.
But because of, as Simon put it, Russian leaderships' hubris, greed and corruption, the ship is just a joke.