Laut US-Beamten ist Russlands jüngste Marinemission eine Versuchsanordnung, seine peinlichen Verluste im Schwarzen Meer zu vertuschen

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-sends-warships-cuba-global-power-black-sea-losses-us-2024-6

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  1. > A naval detachment from the Russian Federation consisting of four vessels –the frigate “GORSHKOV”; the nuclear-powered submarine “KAZAN”; the “PASHIN” fleet sea tanker and the salvage tug “NIKOLAI CHIKER”- will pay an official visit to the port of Havana from June 12 to 17, 2024.

    With two of the four warships being a tugboat and a tanker I don’t think this is the flex Russia thinks it is.

  2. Well they’re not very useful in actual combat so might as well use them for official visits.

  3. A small detachment of Ukrainian special forces deploy to Cuba for “vacation” and suddenly Russia has some more ships and submarines stuck at the bottom of the ocean.

  4. It’s nice they included a submarine

    That’ll save time

  5. the kremlin’s hubris will always be russia’s demise

  6. Guess it’s a nice holiday for those Russian sailors while the rest of the world ignores this almost completely meaningless move? I mean is this some sort of attempt to do a call back to the cuban missile crisis and this is meant to threaten the U.S? Realistically Russia needs everything it has for Ukraine lol, I don’t even buy that stupid rhetoric that they may supply western adversaries with weapons that they will use against the west because any weapons those guys would want to use are absolutely needed in Ukraine.

  7. I think the last time I saw a flex of this calibre I was watching S01E11 of Spongebob Squarepants.

  8. It would be icing on the fucking cake if an Ukrainian SOF team is just straight vibing in Key West waiting for them to cruise through the Caribbean so they can make some more artificial reefs. How embarrassing would it be for the Russians to lose ships in the Caribbean? Wonder if we would even allow it to happen so close to our backyard.

  10. quick can we lease a aircraft carrier to Ukraine?

    hell do it in name only and watch how fast Russia retreats these ships.

  11. Oh my fucking god it’s the Baltic fleet, they won’t make it past British fishermen.

  12. Sure would be nice to have Ukraine in the area with a gift

  13. I’d say it’s a cover more than a flex. They’re just trying to get away from the black sea before more of their ships become submarines.

  14. Should have a U.S. carrier fleet follow alongside for the entire journey, with giant speakers playing goofy tuba marching music.

  16. Whats the flex? That they have any boats that still float? Ukraine should put naval drones in the area and make it a real exercise.

  17. Do these Russian ships also bring a tugboat with them just in case of breakdown?

  18. Russian warship was told to go… Pretty far.

    It’s nice to see them actually up to some diplomacy.

  19. One of the ships, the Nikolai Chiker, is a salvage tug. They can’t have much confidence in their ships if one is a salvage vessel

  20. It would be very amusing if one sank on the way

  23. It would be eternally hilarious if some sea-babies happened to be out there…

  24. If you understand history, then you also understand that truth is the first casualty in war.

    If you believe “the news,” then Russia has been on the brink of defeat for more than a year.

    Does it all make sense now?

  26. Poor sailors are going to be shitting themselves everytime they see a vacationer on a jetski.

  27. Try not to get ambushed by Japanese torpedoboats on the way there.

  29. You don’t think they’re bringing some intermediate range weapons per Putin’s recent threat to arm third-party anti-US proxies as a response to Western weapons making their way into “Russian territory”?

  30. And if all the Russian ships make it there and back without an issue it will be a miracle. The Russian navy is in notoriously poor state of maintenance generally.

  31. A tug to tow anything that breaks, a refueling ship to make sure they’re ships have cause they won’t have much chance to refuel anywhere else and two combat capable vessels. One is a measly frigate of mid specs and one nuclear submarine. This rabble wouldn’t make it past Norway or UK if NATO wanted.

    That’s not a deployment capable to do anything really, nor is it a show of force or capabilities. This is an equivalent of them having a parade with 10 T80s and calling it a grand armee.

  32. The Caribbean is a long way from the Black Sea, but also much safer.

  33. Russian news in the near future: “Glorious and strong Putin sails entire military fleet into US waters. Biden too afraid to respond! NATO weak and we strike now?””

  34. “Embarrassing” would’ve been the Moskva being sunk by two neptune missiles from land. I think catastrophic is a better word to describe their losses in the Black Sea

  35. A flotilla of those notorious party boats from Miami et al should just parallel them the whole time. Show em real American decadence! The headline “Entire crew of Russian fleet deserts and disappears near Key West” would be a banger! An added benefit is they can throw em a tow line they’ll inevitably need…

  36. Watch Ukraine somehow sink these. That’d be embarrassing.

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