New pictures of the sub came out just today. Looks pretty badly damaged. There's 2 holes. One where you pointed out and one in the side near the middle of the sub. Big holes.
Yeah I saw them yesterday actually and it looks like a sever hit was made about the crew compartment. It damaged the outer hull between the 2 hits but the crew compartment hit was very severe and substantially breached the pressure hull as did the forward hit. That sub is a tub. They would have to cut it in sections and rebuild it. It would take years to just check the pressure hull integrity and that is if the fire wasn’t hit enough to completely destroy the steel tempering and torch the pressure hull beyond repair.
@@SubBrief In an odd technical way, the Ukrainian missile is "missing". That is, it is "no more". Like us mortals, once the mission is fulfilled, the missile goes to the great beyond.
@@SubBrief To be honest i expected you to take the chair with behind the green screen and roll it back up, leaving us with just the video clip rolling...
@@SubBriefprobably not going to stop. Long as they can keep feeding money to their cronies sober cronies can turn around and put that money back into their election campaigns. Same old same old Ponzi scheme. When the mob did it they called it racketeering. The only oversight for these people in Congress are elections and we can't even trust those anymore
@@estillings23 Smaller hulls are quite frequently made from AL. Further there's nothing fundamentally preventing this from being a doable thing on the scale of the LCS, especially given the problem was the rigidity of the frame. Would it bring additional challenges? Sure. But those challenges can and SHOULD HAVE BEEN worked through before they actually building the damn things. For the design goals, aluminum makes sense provided you verify you can work around the issues.
One of my buddies is in the Coast guard, and he just saw Aaron climbing into the USS Nautilus, renting about creating an "outer haven for submariners" in Africa. The Nautilus has subsequently been reported missing.
Newer pictures from the starboard side show an impact around the area of the galley, just in line with the aft portion of the sail. Under that are many batteries though so it could have been some vertical explosion of the batteries perhaps, but looks like an impact similar in size to the hit above the bow torpedo room.
There's video evidence of another hole punched into the kilo. Starboard side just after the sail, even with a water line. I watched the video on the UA-cam channel Suchomimus. The video was posted about 9 hours ago.
I'd imagine one of the first steps (aside from handling the actual fire/gas/disaster) is to begin emergency surfacing. Even if all the crew eventually became casualties, China would still more than likely have access to the sub, even if they had to tie off and dock with the thing. I'm more interested in what the actual incident was, unfortunately all that stuff will probably never see the light of day.
The 2nd hit appears to have been an internal explosion with the edges of the hole blown outwards from the inside. One possible explaination is that the approach bearing and angle of decent of the Stormshadow on impact was planned so the 2nd stage of the warhead penetrated deep into the submarine before detonating.
@@Akm72 The missile tore through the relatively thin outer hull to impact on the much thicker pressure hull. That blew inward as a reflected blast wave bounced back outward.
Heh, good work. Certainly feel your pain. LCS 25? Reminds me of Blackadder Goes Forth where walking very slowly towards the enemy like the seventeen previous occasions was thought a very good idea, as it was the last thing the enemy would be expecting if we did it again! I understand that the Kilo was a newer one one with guided missile capability, love to be a fly on the wall in that costs/benefits meeting. Were the Soviet/Russian Diesel Electric Attack boats potentially the most dangerous because of their reputation for being quieter?
I think the bigger win is taking out one of the prime ships in the Black Sea that was used to fire Kalibr missiles. The timing of both the Ropucha and Kilo being in drydock is interesting and I'm curious whether we're going to see more cruise missile strikes on Sevastopol in the near future: even lighter damage to fleet vessels will become a real problem with there now being very limited drydock capability.
Correction: the total mass of the Storm Shadow is a little less than 3000 lbs (1300kg), and the warhead is about 450kg. Still enough to wreck those ships :).
This boat is toast. There is another large hole just behind and below the mast, starboard side. Just at the last battery in the line of batteries seen in the photo. Probably 4ftx4ft+..
There is another image of the Rostov on the Don with a massive hole into her hull in the mid starboard side just behind the conning tower. Looks like a low angle missile strike, she is toast if the photo is genuine.
I always enjoy Sub Brief content. But a part of me wants to send Aaron a completed model LCS (with small hull fractures included) to haunt his bookshelf, and his dreams. Would come complete with a high cost receipt and a warning not to try and float it near any splashing. 🤔
The navy building LCS's reminds me of the crank yankers sketch where the guy calls a supplement store with a concern that he's having an allergic reaction the creatine he bought there while ostensibly continuing to take the creatine while on the phone saying he thinks he's having an allergic reaction to it.
Thank you for talking about the PLAN sub. I heard rumors about and paid no heed. Neither you nor Mr. Sutton mentioned it so I gave it no thought. I really appreciate your establishment of the "Huge Freakin' Warhead" standard. Would that be just about under 1500 kg in "Les Grande Tete du Kaboom" measurement? Slava Ukraine!
in another note: The U.S. currently accessing 9 bases in the Philippines. Three days ago Major Brawner of the Philippines and Admiral Aquilino of the USN are seeking 63 more EDCA sites in the Philippines. THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT -- YES, YOU HEARD IT, U.S. WILL SOON HAVING 63 EDCA SITES IN THE PHILIPPINES. GO AHEAD AND RESEARCH IT.
*National Security Advisor Jeffrey Pelt takes off glasses while addressing Russian ambassador* "You're telling me you lost a sub, a transport vessel AND a dock to a country without a navy?"
There are two up close photos out now of the Kilo (with censoring of the drydock). The first showcasing the damage on the bow and a second showing explosion damage to the starboard side behind the sail.
Wow, was that an ending! This was a really great video. It had everything! Many thanks Aaron, commenters. When the comments are a real "value add" you know you have a great channel.
🤣🤣🤣the end of this video🤣🤣🤣such candor on a military info channel is more than refreshing 👍👍👍.....he packs up and leaves the video 😮😮😮🤣🤣🤣HYSTERICAL 🤣🤣🤣
Having seen the damage photos a can say without doubt that the sub is beyond economical repair.... Also, they have another 3 freedom class fitting out atm.
There is a photo of the sub from stern looking to the bow on the port side. There is a large hole just behind and below the sail, around where the battery bank is in in the drawing. The hole in the bow is quite ragged, and extends quite a distance from the bow.
10:05 This green screen is all I need. This green screen … and this chair, that’s all I need. This chair, and this Galaxy lamp, and my green screen … that’s all I need.
One missile (or even 2) doesn't make a victory. It's like a mosquito bite on Russia's arm. I remember when Ukraine had a navy. Now all they have are RIBs. 😅 That is a victory.
I'm saying it's not repairable. Unless you define repairing it by rebuilding it from the ground up. The Storm Shadow penetrates the target and detonates inside whatever it's hit. The inside will be even worse than the outside.
They could save a lot of money (besides not building it in the first place) by bypassing the shakedown cruise and having the commissioning and decommissioning ceremony at the same time. Sailors running up and sailors running back down. Weeee
Even better, set up a ship-breaking yard opposite the slipway they're launched from, then they can go straight for disposal and a new life as razor blades.
The Storm Shadow is designed to crack hardened targets like concrete bunkers, that Kilo will certainly have had her pressure hull breached if not gutted by fire. The pictures that came out yesterday show 2 holes (unclear if two hits or that was from a secondary explosion) in her and smoke pouring out great gouges in her hull. That sub is scrap iron clogging a drydock
Notice how badly damaged the floor of the Rostovs Dry Dock is too, No way are they flooding it anytime soon. Suspect the Storm Shadows were Fused on their delay setting, Went right through the Minsk & Rostov on Don, Penetrated the foundations of the Dock before Detonating, Hopefully lifting both vessels off their blocks and breaking the Keels.
Well, at least we know what happens when you hit a small submarine with a large bunker-busting missile.... The latest pics almost look like a through-and-through. I'd imagine that the sub's a complete write-off.
Still a combat loss of a sub, Russia's first since the second world war. It's also a billion-dollar submarine launched in 2014 and is one of the few ships that russia has in the Black Sea that can launch Cruise Missiles. Russia can't replace it, nor do they have the funds and parts to rebuild it.
@@PeterMuskrat6968 Yes but nothing to move the needle on the frontline they are losing. This saved no lives of ukrainan fighting men nor did it have any impact on the war. A media propaganda win is the only benefit.
There are pictures of the Kilo with two holes in it with two supposed hits from missiles. One is midsection, right side behind the control room. Doesn't the fire endanger the stability of the metal hull and all?
Russia has lost a submarine, in a ground war, against a nation that doesn't even have a navy XD Whether or not they "choose to" is now more so whether or not they "CAN". Facilities and the availability of capable people aside, it's becoming more and more unlikely that they have the money and equipment to rebuild a submarine.
Sharp corner on a ship are a bad thing, and I bet an engineer is kicking himself in the ass right now. Some poor intern doing truss calculations to double check the computer's work didn't do them right and there is a force concentration in that corner under temperature difference. "hot sunny day in a cold spring harbor." Hot sun cold water, different metal expansion + force concentration == cracks in harbor.
There is more damage on the sub aft of the sail in the upper right quarter, the hole looks about the same size as the one on the front. Pictures are online.
More photographs have come out of the Kilo, it's torn right open across the whole bow, seems to have penned the pressure hull. The hit on the side was right above the batteries in the crew compartment by the looks of it.
Great update Aaron. Been waiting for your take on the damage and the BDA photos. Obviously significant damage to the exterior of the boat. I guess all depends on whether or not the pressure hul was breached and the interior burned. If so I’d say she is done. If not, the exterior fittings can be repaired at some point. Loved your commentary on the LCS program. “Contracting” is a maddeningly Byzantine system, and ultimately why we are still taking delivery of LCS ships that will be immediately retired. As bad as the LCS program is, it could be worse had we pushed on with the Zumwalt class of ships. We luckily stopped that boondoggle at three ships (and STILL dont know what to do with them).
A pic came out today and showing it got hit just behind the sail as well.😂😂😂 ❤ I think it's scrap metal but ya never know. Not like Russia cares for it's ppl safety.
New pictures of the sub came out just today. Looks pretty badly damaged. There's 2 holes. One where you pointed out and one in the side near the middle of the sub. Big holes.
Also seems to show the bow impact was over the torpedo room.
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Right over the aft battery bay. I don’t know if it damaged the battery bay, the areas above are for crew.
Yeah I saw them yesterday actually and it looks like a sever hit was made about the crew compartment. It damaged the outer hull between the 2 hits but the crew compartment hit was very severe and substantially breached the pressure hull as did the forward hit. That sub is a tub. They would have to cut it in sections and rebuild it. It would take years to just check the pressure hull integrity and that is if the fire wasn’t hit enough to completely destroy the steel tempering and torch the pressure hull beyond repair.
Yea no way they can tow that thing anywhere.
The warhead is about 1,000 pounds, the weight of the missile is almost 3,000 pounds. Great video as always👍
ok go burned by google again. thanks for the correction.
You forgotten its a Tandem Warhead, this make it worse for the submarine, i thing the damage inside the ship is way worse.
Yeah, I was thinking a 3,000 lb warhead would have done more damage.
I just want to thank Admiral Chair who's calm leadership got us through so many Cold waters incidents. It's great to see him still doing well.
We’re missing an f35, China is missing a minister of defense, Russia is missing a sub… man! Everyone’s missing things!
Ukraine's missile didn't miss. :)
Ukraine missile knows where it isn't....@@nitehawk86
@@SubBrief In an odd technical way, the Ukrainian missile is "missing". That is, it is "no more". Like us mortals, once the mission is fulfilled, the missile goes to the great beyond.
@@SubBrief "It knows where it is not." That sounds like a Rumfeldism. Which is Ok with me.
@@nitehawk86Ukraine is missing 400K troops, oh no, they are not missing, they are DEAD. Shortly: missing an Army.
The LCS rant at the end was needed. “I’m taking my green screen home!”
I"m not giving it back until they stop.
@@SubBrief at least we won’t have to suffer any LCS appearances on it. That might be the only benefit 😂
@@SubBrief To be honest i expected you to take the chair with behind the green screen and roll it back up, leaving us with just the video clip rolling...
@@SubBriefprobably not going to stop. Long as they can keep feeding money to their cronies sober cronies can turn around and put that money back into their election campaigns. Same old same old Ponzi scheme. When the mob did it they called it racketeering. The only oversight for these people in Congress are elections and we can't even trust those anymore
Building a warship out of aluminum is about as smart as building a submersible out of carbon fibre.
Come on, that's not "turn the stupid up to 11" levels like a carbon fiber submersible.
@@AnAngryRedGummyBear it's at least a 9. Source: I took an intro to Materials Science course at university
@@estillings23 Smaller hulls are quite frequently made from AL. Further there's nothing fundamentally preventing this from being a doable thing on the scale of the LCS, especially given the problem was the rigidity of the frame. Would it bring additional challenges? Sure. But those challenges can and SHOULD HAVE BEEN worked through before they actually building the damn things. For the design goals, aluminum makes sense provided you verify you can work around the issues.
He's right. We didn't lose any ships made of steel in ww2. Just the aluminum ones.
Ouch. Too soon? Nah
It takes discipline to stick to facts and not be one of the voices speculating for clicks. Massive props for that.
He doesn't need too, the commenters fill in the conspiracies and provide our daily nonsense for us all LOL
lol
Thank you for the laugh at the end. I cannot tell you how hilarious that was to me. Top work, as always.
One of my buddies is in the Coast guard, and he just saw Aaron climbing into the USS Nautilus, renting about creating an "outer haven for submariners" in Africa. The Nautilus has subsequently been reported missing.
LOL... To funny.
Is that a Metal Gear reference?
Newer pictures from the starboard side show an impact around the area of the galley, just in line with the aft portion of the sail. Under that are many batteries though so it could have been some vertical explosion of the batteries perhaps, but looks like an impact similar in size to the hit above the bow torpedo room.
There's video evidence of another hole punched into the kilo.
Starboard side just after the sail, even with a water line.
I watched the video on the UA-cam channel
Suchomimus.
The video was posted about 9 hours ago.
I'd imagine one of the first steps (aside from handling the actual fire/gas/disaster) is to begin emergency surfacing. Even if all the crew eventually became casualties, China would still more than likely have access to the sub, even if they had to tie off and dock with the thing. I'm more interested in what the actual incident was, unfortunately all that stuff will probably never see the light of day.
Classified and hidden from public eyes. Now back to work!9 to 5
It could come out through information leaks or declassification in the decades to come.
@@tifapanties25 - it's China, so it is 9 to 9 Saturday included.
Ending freak-out was hilarious
His face when 'they built another one?' - brilliant.
"I'm not coming back until they stop building LCS's." 😂 That ending has me rolling.
There were two hits on the Rostov. One starboard just aft of the sail in the side.
The 2nd hit appears to have been an internal explosion with the edges of the hole blown outwards from the inside. One possible explaination is that the approach bearing and angle of decent of the Stormshadow on impact was planned so the 2nd stage of the warhead penetrated deep into the submarine before detonating.
@@Akm72 The missile tore through the relatively thin outer hull to impact on the much thicker pressure hull. That blew inward as a reflected blast wave bounced back outward.
@@kimweaver1252 Certainly plausible given that variant is a bunker buster without a contact fuze.
@@PeterMuskrat6968 Contact fuse with delay. Not a proximity or timed fuse.
Heh, good work. Certainly feel your pain. LCS 25? Reminds me of Blackadder Goes Forth where walking very slowly towards the enemy like the seventeen previous occasions was thought a very good idea, as it was the last thing the enemy would be expecting if we did it again!
I understand that the Kilo was a newer one one with guided missile capability, love to be a fly on the wall in that costs/benefits meeting.
Were the Soviet/Russian Diesel Electric Attack boats potentially the most dangerous because of their reputation for being quieter?
I think the bigger win is taking out one of the prime ships in the Black Sea that was used to fire Kalibr missiles. The timing of both the Ropucha and Kilo being in drydock is interesting and I'm curious whether we're going to see more cruise missile strikes on Sevastopol in the near future: even lighter damage to fleet vessels will become a real problem with there now being very limited drydock capability.
Bummer you uploaded this without the photos that just came out showing how bad the damage is. This thing is toast
another video tomorrow
probably. @@chrisbrace2204
Correction: the total mass of the Storm Shadow is a little less than 3000 lbs (1300kg), and the warhead is about 450kg. Still enough to wreck those ships :).
This boat is toast. There is another large hole just behind and below the mast, starboard side. Just at the last battery in the line of batteries seen in the photo. Probably 4ftx4ft+..
Someone should go to jail for those LCS. What a waste of money.
There is another image of the Rostov on the Don with a massive hole into her hull in the mid starboard side just behind the conning tower. Looks like a low angle missile strike, she is toast if the photo is genuine.
Best sign-off EVER. Milton would be proud.
The Russian sub has a second hole in the pressure hull.
A photo has shown up on the internet showing a large blast hole on the starboard side of the hull below the back of the sail of the Kilo.
2:56 there is a second hole aswell,
Suchomimus UA-cam channel has vid about it
Last part is truly the best!
Friends don’t let friends build LCS’s.
One missle impact, caused a fire, battery flooded batteries and released hydrogen, already damaged hull went pop.
And chlorine.
New pics show a hole on the starboard side as well
I always enjoy Sub Brief content. But a part of me wants to send Aaron a completed model LCS (with small hull fractures included) to haunt his bookshelf, and his dreams. Would come complete with a high cost receipt and a warning not to try and float it near any splashing. 🤔
You are a generous, but cruel man. Never change.
Your ending had me in tears that was honestly a great bit and caught me off guard lol, Cheers!
"Chinese carrier strike group". What a strange sequence of words to come out of anybody's mouth.
@09:17 .... Never change, Aaron, never change. Continue on fighting the good fight.
Hell yeah! Thanks for this! Like I mentioned elsewhere: I'm sure these topical videos will do great! Been waiting for this!
The navy building LCS's reminds me of the crank yankers sketch where the guy calls a supplement store with a concern that he's having an allergic reaction the creatine he bought there while ostensibly continuing to take the creatine while on the phone saying he thinks he's having an allergic reaction to it.
Thank you for talking about the PLAN sub. I heard rumors about and paid no heed. Neither you nor Mr. Sutton mentioned it so I gave it no thought. I really appreciate your establishment of the "Huge Freakin' Warhead" standard. Would that be just about under 1500 kg in "Les Grande Tete du Kaboom" measurement? Slava Ukraine!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂He took his green screen, chair and left🤣🤣🤣I didn't see that coming🤣
Thanks for the updates.
There are photos appearing now showing a 2nd hole from either another strike or from internal explosion.this is on the starboard side.
i can see into the future and the reaction to the launch of LCS 376 is hilarious
My Favorite part of the final clip is "Freedom Done Wright"
Thanks for clarifying the Chinese sub incident!
Side splitting ending I'm not normally here for laughs 😂
in another note: The U.S. currently accessing 9 bases in the Philippines. Three days ago Major Brawner of the Philippines and Admiral Aquilino of the USN are seeking 63 more EDCA sites in the Philippines.
THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT -- YES, YOU HEARD IT, U.S. WILL SOON HAVING 63 EDCA SITES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
GO AHEAD AND RESEARCH IT.
In the words of everyone's favorite media whore and nuclear weapons enthusiast "We will return"
-MacArthur
They ending was great 😂... Thanks!
I puttered around on Google Earth, and found a sub that has not moved in 9 years, with no apparent activity. I hope Ukraine hit the correct sub.
In sevastopol?
the images on reddit showed 3 hits. not gonna sail for the rest of the war.
Probably some officer passed gas without filling for the proper authorization from the proletariat
All the best to everyone
*National Security Advisor Jeffrey Pelt takes off glasses while addressing Russian ambassador* "You're telling me you lost a sub, a transport vessel AND a dock to a country without a navy?"
There are two up close photos out now of the Kilo (with censoring of the drydock). The first showcasing the damage on the bow and a second showing explosion damage to the starboard side behind the sail.
Wow, was that an ending! This was a really great video. It had everything! Many thanks Aaron, commenters. When the comments are a real "value add" you know you have a great channel.
That Oscar is yours Aaron!
🤣🤣🤣the end of this video🤣🤣🤣such candor on a military info channel is more than refreshing 👍👍👍.....he packs up and leaves the video 😮😮😮🤣🤣🤣HYSTERICAL 🤣🤣🤣
Having seen the damage photos a can say without doubt that the sub is beyond economical repair....
Also, they have another 3 freedom class fitting out atm.
How do you lose a submarine to a cruise missile holy crap thats embarrassing
I bet one of the Chinese sailors removed the door of the XO
The rant at the end 😂
Aaron packing up his greenscreen was 😄
On it as always! Thank you good sir
There is a photo of the sub from stern looking to the bow on the port side. There is a large hole just behind and below the sail, around where the battery bank is in in the drawing. The hole in the bow is quite ragged, and extends quite a distance from the bow.
for what its worth UA-cam channel Suchomimus has a picture showing a large hole in the side of the sub as well.
You forgot to mention that an RN Vanguard bomber has set a record for the longest patrol
Not the chair! All hail the chair!
The buildup for the outro went for months.
Really nice
"I'm joining the strike!" 😂😂😂
10:05
This green screen is all I need. This green screen … and this chair, that’s all I need. This chair, and this Galaxy lamp, and my green screen … that’s all I need.
I'm so happy someone got the reference. Well done, sir.
LCS is a dirty word around here!
More damage to the Improved Kilo. Looking forward to the next video! You make'em, I'll watch and like 'em!!!
One missile (or even 2) doesn't make a victory. It's like a mosquito bite on Russia's arm.
I remember when Ukraine had a navy. Now all they have are RIBs. 😅
That is a victory.
I wish I could like this more than once.
I seen a replica Storm Shadow at last years Royal International Air Tattoo and they are bloody huge !
I'm saying it's not repairable. Unless you define repairing it by rebuilding it from the ground up. The Storm Shadow penetrates the target and detonates inside whatever it's hit. The inside will be even worse than the outside.
LMFAO that ending 🤣
They could save a lot of money (besides not building it in the first place) by bypassing the shakedown cruise and having the commissioning and decommissioning ceremony at the same time. Sailors running up and sailors running back down. Weeee
Even better, set up a ship-breaking yard opposite the slipway they're launched from, then they can go straight for disposal and a new life as razor blades.
Well said Chief. 😂
LCS issues aside, "there's more than one way to skin a cat" as we say, re that Kilo...🇦🇺⚓
The Lousy Combat Ships are proof that the USN has not yet learned to divest from this utter failure of a platform...
The Storm Shadow is designed to crack hardened targets like concrete bunkers, that Kilo will certainly have had her pressure hull breached if not gutted by fire.
The pictures that came out yesterday show 2 holes (unclear if two hits or that was from a secondary explosion) in her and smoke pouring out great gouges in her hull. That sub is scrap iron clogging a drydock
Meanwhile, Jimmy Buffett is still missing his shaker of Salt!
We're gonna need an F-35 fiasco video Aaron bc I just can't make sense of this craziness!!!
It appeared to have been struck by two weapons. It had two bloody huge holes in it. Not one. Two.
You are covering a major sub incident. thanks.
just 1000pounds for the Warhead of the storm shadow... :)
Notice how badly damaged the floor of the Rostovs Dry Dock is too, No way are they flooding it anytime soon. Suspect the Storm Shadows were Fused on their delay setting, Went right through the Minsk & Rostov on Don, Penetrated the foundations of the Dock before Detonating, Hopefully lifting both vessels off their blocks and breaking the Keels.
Well, at least we know what happens when you hit a small submarine with a large bunker-busting missile....
The latest pics almost look like a through-and-through. I'd imagine that the sub's a complete write-off.
bruh that attacked a sub that was in drydock for repairs for the last year.
Still a combat loss of a sub, Russia's first since the second world war.
It's also a billion-dollar submarine launched in 2014 and is one of the few ships that russia has in the Black Sea that can launch Cruise Missiles.
Russia can't replace it, nor do they have the funds and parts to rebuild it.
@@PeterMuskrat6968 Yes but nothing to move the needle on the frontline they are losing. This saved no lives of ukrainan fighting men nor did it have any impact on the war. A media propaganda win is the only benefit.
There are pictures of the Kilo with two holes in it with two supposed hits from missiles. One is midsection, right side behind the control room. Doesn't the fire endanger the stability of the metal hull and all?
Thank you
Russia has lost a submarine, in a ground war, against a nation that doesn't even have a navy XD
Whether or not they "choose to" is now more so whether or not they "CAN". Facilities and the availability of capable people aside, it's becoming more and more unlikely that they have the money and equipment to rebuild a submarine.
Indeed, as you said the Russian Navy is more an obligation that something they focus on. Having mostly land borders with their opponents after all.
Sharp corner on a ship are a bad thing, and I bet an engineer is kicking himself in the ass right now. Some poor intern doing truss calculations to double check the computer's work didn't do them right and there is a force concentration in that corner under temperature difference. "hot sunny day in a cold spring harbor." Hot sun cold water, different metal expansion + force concentration == cracks in harbor.
There is more damage on the sub aft of the sail in the upper right quarter, the hole looks about the same size as the one on the front. Pictures are online.
More photographs have come out of the Kilo, it's torn right open across the whole bow, seems to have penned the pressure hull.
The hit on the side was right above the batteries in the crew compartment by the looks of it.
Great update Aaron. Been waiting for your take on the damage and the BDA photos. Obviously significant damage to the exterior of the boat. I guess all depends on whether or not the pressure hul was breached and the interior burned. If so I’d say she is done. If not, the exterior fittings can be repaired at some point.
Loved your commentary on the LCS program. “Contracting” is a maddeningly Byzantine system, and ultimately why we are still taking delivery of LCS ships that will be immediately retired. As bad as the LCS program is, it could be worse had we pushed on with the Zumwalt class of ships. We luckily stopped that boondoggle at three ships (and STILL dont know what to do with them).
great vid, thank you
To watch you rage quit was unexpected and made me laugh out loud and spit out my Mountain Dew. Hehehehe. LOL
What's so wrong with them building LCS's? It's nothing a little J-B Weld or some Flex Seal can't fix😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Depends on the fire really. Metallurgical properties of metal change when exposed to extreme heat. She might be a gonna.
The second was below the conning tower on the starboard side.
Saw the new submarine pics. Total loss.
A pic came out today and showing it got hit just behind the sail as well.😂😂😂 ❤ I think it's scrap metal but ya never know. Not like Russia cares for it's ppl safety.