The Russian Warship ‘Kommuna’ Is Special: A 111-Year-Old Veteran Of Three Fleets And Three Wars. The Ukrainian Navy Attacked Her Anyway.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/21/the-russian-warship-kommuna-is-special-a-111-year-old-veteran-of-three-fleets-and-three-wars-the-ukrainian-navy-attacked-her-anyway/
by AbleismIsSatan
16 comments
Should be in a museum. But, this is Russia.
It’s a shame. They should have left this to be the last ship of the Black Sea Fleet left afloat.
>The Ukrainian Navy Attacked Her Anyway.
Come now. Surely a Forbes headline editor would never throw shade for clicks. Thankfully, the article itself is fine, and so is Kommuna’s newly acquired diving park status.
The Black Sea will have some amazing diving spots
Don’t laugh at its age. It was a ship built to lift other ships and able to clean waterways. A valuable asset to lose
Revenge for the An-225 Mriya the Russians destroyed at the Antonov Airport.
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Why? Cause fuck ‘em that’s why
If he dies, he dies.
This isn’t a meaningless asset. I’d argue it was actually one of the most important ships in the entire theatre. It was the only thing which allowed the partial salvage of ships which sank in shallow water. And that’s not just important because it means you get the sensitive equipment back, either: it’s a must-have capability in an environment like Crimea and the Kerch Strait, because it lets you unblock waterways if some unhelpful person sinks a ship in a shallow area that everybody else wants to go through, or drops a partly-assembled Build-A-Bridge kit into a similar area.
Other ships have cranes, yes, but this is a dedicated salvage vessel with a lifting capacity in the dozens or hundreds of tons. You won’t raise the Moskva that way, but it would have been very helpful in certain other scenarios I can envision.
Put it in a museum or watch it get appropriately treated.
lol wtf are they supposed to let it kill Ukrainians just because it’s old? Fucking clickbait headline.
Part of the Black Sea Fleet… SINK it
Sink the whole fleet
How about Ukraine gave everything for Soviet Union for decades. Russia attacked her anyways.
Of course they attacked it anyway, every Russian ship shall sink!
If it’s good enough for active duty, it is good enough as a military target. 🤷🏼♀️
It’s a submarine now.