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2004-03-23 Russia

Russia nuclear cruiser in critical condition

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Posted by Lux 2004-03-23 4:38:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 very terse link

Posted by Lux 2004-3-23 4:44:13 AM|| 2004-3-23 4:44:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Now Google's got the story - via Rooters / AFP - but apparently exactly what's in your link, so far.

Posted by .com 2004-3-23 5:58:07 AM|| 2004-3-23 5:58:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think someone may have jumped the gun on this one. This report puts the statements in a more political perspective.

http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/navy/northern_fleet/incidents/32924.html

Posted by DanM 2004-3-23 7:12:27 AM|| 2004-3-23 7:12:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Newsday article indcates political motivation.

Posted by GK 2004-3-23 7:22:09 AM|| 2004-3-23 7:22:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 A nuclear cruiser? That's the strangest thing I've ever heard. Aren't the only nuclear-powered ships in the USN carriers and submarines?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-3-23 9:45:15 AM|| 2004-3-23 9:45:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 PG looks like one of those star crossed ships. There is a picture at the link also.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-23 10:06:08 AM|| 2004-3-23 10:06:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Happy that this turned out to be hyperbole.

The cruiser has 2 300MW reactors, which wouldn't quite be in the Chernobyl class of accident, but it wouldn't be pleasant.

Posted by Lux 2004-3-23 10:40:17 AM|| 2004-3-23 10:40:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 ...IIRC, Petr Veliky has a combined nuclear/gas turbine plant because the Sovs couldn't build a reactor big enough and reliable enough for something like her. (Note also that their one attempt at building a fleet carrier - an nuclear application if there ever was one - was conventionally powered.) Maintenance on Soviet warships was iffy to begin with, and it's gotten worse since the Collapse.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-3-23 10:42:31 AM|| 2004-3-23 10:42:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Aren't the only nuclear-powered ships in the USN carriers and submarines?

They also had nuclear-powered ice breakers.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-23 10:56:26 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-23 10:56:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I was part of a small exercise with a Ukranian vessel in the Black Sea. If the Russian ships are in the same state of repair as the Ukraninans, I could believe things are really bad. The ship was infested with cockroaches, they were buring oil so bad that it looked like they were on fire (you could see the smoke OTH). We met up in Constanta, Romania and went out from there - only after the US Navy bought more fuel for them. They showed up with only enough fuel for a 1 way trip. They were gap jawed at our ship because it was so clean.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-3-23 11:02:27 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:02:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Aren't the only nuclear-powered ships in the USN carriers and submarines?

Currently, yes. For a number of years, the USN had 9 nuclear powered cruisers, the Long Beach being the first. The USS Bainbridge was a nuclear powered frigate, later redesignated as a cruiser. They've all been scrapped, now there is only the Ticonderoga class of 27 ships.

Posted by Steve 2004-3-23 11:04:08 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:04:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yahoo News Link here

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-23 1:30:52 PM|| 2004-3-23 1:30:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Kirov-class? (Don't have time to look it up m'self.)

Posted by Mike 2004-3-23 2:38:48 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:38:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Kirov-class? Yes

Posted by snellenr 2004-3-23 3:11:57 PM|| 2004-3-23 3:11:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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