Is it just me is does anyone else have mixed feelings about this 110 y/o ship possibly having just met it’s demise.
Ok I get it. It’s a Russian ship helping with the war effort and it is a target but 110 years. Man I’d hate to see her go out like this.
I would have much rather seen them sink either the karakurt class corvette or the krivak class frigates there in sovastapol and it would have done a lot more damage to the fleet.
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Damn when you're supposed to be a "super power" relying on 110 year old ship. Better start questioning your leadership. :/
So, ship nerd/fan moment here. The Komuna is the only one of its kind (at least over there) and the only one that can do what it can do. Plus…until recently Russia didn’t much need salvage vessels like her. There’s a monitor still floating around the rivers down in South America. It’s just the best ship for the job that needs doing.
The parussians are literally world champions in losing submarines in peacetime.
And they’re also the champions of just leaning em too, iirc. And even just the occasional need still doesn’t get over only needing the one ship.
Imagine having served and outlived the imperial Tsar and the Soviet Union only to be brought down by modern Russian incompetence
The Russian way to go!
Think of it this way. It survived over 100 years of Russian naval incompetence before it's dues came
Imagine living for 112 years through three changes of government and not one of them was a just, humane one
It’s almost poetic, in a cruel way.
It's a massive asset for the russian navy, however it is also very very sad that a ship with so much history has possibly been destroyed.
Hell, it's sad when any warship and her crew are destroyed, you only hope that the crews either survived or died quickly. War is hell.
It's a noble way to go out, plus I love underwater photography. And it was probably horribly inefficient.
I guess I don't consider it actually gone, and look at the sea bed like how a rooms floor is its lowest largest shelf.
That true, plus life will spring up around it soon
You could say this is retribution for the Antonov-225.
God I wanted to see it because apparently it flew at air shows and that would have been so cool to see. Shame to see such a large and cool aircraft get destroyed
This is the correct take
Yes it’s a piece of history, a very interesting and important history, but it’s being used in a genocide. Orc boat should have stayed in Russia.
Should’ve gone to a museum
It will be a historic dive site
They shouldn't have sent it into harms way. Only themselves to blame. It's reasonable for us to be angry at the Fools who risked it.
Blame the Russians who refused to retire it after so long
Well it's retired now
I personally dislike history being destroyed, because history doesn't belong to any one nation it belongs to humanity. But at the same time fuck the ruzzians and if this causes problems for them all the better. I'm really conflicted but the needs of those alive now outweigh the potential loss to the species of a historic artifact.
I just hope that there is a video of it being sent to Davy Jones.
It was the most functional ship in the Russian navy, so it's a win win.
It is a shame the Russian military command staff made decisions to use older antique hardware in the field. If it had been made a museum ship it would probably have been pretty sweet.
There is a hell of a lot of Ukrainian civilian architecture lost, far older than this boat. Museums looted, churches, the list goes on. Not to mention the people killed, raped, and scarred for life. Sink the fucker.
They’ll get to the Karakurts and Krivaks in time. It’s more a matter of target opportunity. Whenever they see a target and have a weapon to hit it, they will.
Ngl I’m okay with not being clubbed to death by a priceless ancient work of art
This ship is used to recover materiel from sunken assets. It's better that this gets sunk before other naval vessels.
No mixed feelings at all.
It is part of Putin's war machine and as such needs to be on the bottom of the sea.
Still misty eyed over the loss of this rust bucket after Russia's defeat, then go fully Mary Rose on her.
I'm pretty sure this is not the first time this ship got sunk, but I could be incorrect
The Germans sank it in Leningrad a couple of times, just shallow enough to repair/refloat
Oh well. If the Russians didn’t want it sunk, they shouldn’t have invaded Ukraine and massacred countless civilians.
It isn't like it is forever gone. It sank (hopefully) in harbour.
Honestly I agree with this, I’m glad that it’s gone cause it a military target, and a pretty valuable one. But it’s 110 years old, kinda wish it went out slowly rusting away in retirement, or as a museum piece.