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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:31:55 PM EDT
Russia Loses World's Largest Nuclear Submarine
The Russian Navy has confirmed it has decommissioned its nuclear-powered strategic submarine Dmitry Donskoy, which formed part of Moscow's formidable Cold War weapon system. The Russian submarine Dmitry Donskoy in Saint Petersburg, on July 26, 2017. Russia's Navy has announced on February 6, 2023 that the Cold War era vessel had been decommissioned. There had been speculation for months about the fate of the submarine, which had been launched in 1980 and whose NATO reporting name was Typhoon. In 2021, Russia's state news agency Tass reported that the vessel would stay in service until 2026. It was the first of six Akula-class Northern Fleet submarines laid down at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk on the White Sea which were commissioned in the 1980s. At 574 feet long, Dmitry Donskoy's status as the world's largest submarine was overtaken by the 608-feet-long Belgorod nuclear submarine, which was commissioned in July 2022. Dmitry Donskoy had a displacement of around 53,000 tons and was modernized and re-equipped in 2002 with the "Bulava" missile. While it was reported in July 2022 that the vessel had been terminated, no official confirmation was expected until the end of the year. The vessel's last reported activity was in the sea trials of SSN Krasnoyarsk in September 2022. 
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:34:10 PM EDT
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The crew is here in Montana.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:35:16 PM EDT
[#2]
What are those doors?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:35:32 PM EDT
[#3]
You've lost ANOTHER submarine?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:36:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana. We weren't supposed to tell anyone. 
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:38:51 PM EDT
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I saw that headline. They didn't "lose" it. That implies that it was lost at sea to either military action or an accident. Alternately, it means that they forgot where they put it. (Have you checked all your other ports?)
They are decommissioning it. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to an ancient cold war relic. It certainly beats the standard Russian Navy plan letting it get so far behind in maintenance it breaks down and has to be towed back to port... where it will then sit and fall apart due to rust and neglect. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:41:49 PM EDT
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I would have liked to have seen Montana.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:42:52 PM EDT
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Big son of a bitch.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:43:57 PM EDT
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It doesn’t really sound like its “lost”
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:44:22 PM EDT
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I read the thread title and thought, that thing is huge how did they lose it? Forget where they parked it or something? Drifted out to sea while drunk and passed out on the shore?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:44:55 PM EDT
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Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:45:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I saw that headline. They didn't "lose" it. That implies that it was lost at sea to either military action or an accident. Alternately, it means that they forgot where they put it. (Have you checked all your other ports?) They are decommissioning it. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to an ancient cold war relic. It certainly beats the standard Russian Navy plan letting it get so far behind in maintenance it breaks down and has to be towed back to port... where it will then sit and fall apart due to rust and neglect. 
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:46:47 PM EDT
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Clickbait title is clickbait.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:47:04 PM EDT
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Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:47:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana. That’s where all the Levchenkos came from! |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:48:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class Weirdly enough the Soviets called them Akula class. Yeah it hurts if you think about it too much. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:48:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Clickbait title is clickbait. Like most "news" these days. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:48:36 PM EDT
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Next time you get a bright idea, Jack, put it in a memo!
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:48:56 PM EDT
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 Ray Stevens - Surfin'' USSR |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:50:17 PM EDT
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Damn. That displaces more than an Essex class carrier.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:50:57 PM EDT
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Why do foreign ships display English numerals?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:54:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why do foreign ships display English numerals? Arabic numerals |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:54:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What are those doors? Launch tubes for the uber super hyper speed nuclear death missiles. Russia stronk. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:54:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:55:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class ^ this |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 8:58:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:02:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class Project 941 Akula (?????? 941 ?????) is what the Russians call the class. The NATO codename for it is Typhoon. What NATO calls "Akula", the Russians call Project 971 Shchuka-B (????-?). It gets confusing. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:03:27 PM EDT
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Typhoon 7?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:03:49 PM EDT
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Next time you get a bright idea, Jack - put it in a memo!
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:07:18 PM EDT
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The only interesting part of this story is they are doing this three years ahead of schedule.
Issues from lack of maintenance? Problems maintaining it going forward? Cost? Not sure which to guess, but any of the above offer insight into the state of the parts of their military not in use in Ukraine. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:10:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ^ this Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class ^ this We call them Typhoons. THEY call them Akulas. It is properly called an Akula-class, that is the given name. It’s just not the NATO reporting name. What WE call an Akula (attack boat), they call a “Pike.” NATO created the confusion. They are building a lot of Borei class SSBNs now. They likely decom’d the last Typhoon/Akula now because they commissioned a new Borei (Suvorov) in December, so on paper the fleet numbers stay the same (the Donskoy was not active for a while afaik). They also launched a new Borei (Emp. Alexander) in December and will commission it later this year. Don’t worry, there are still plenty of targets in the sea. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:12:17 PM EDT
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He spent most of his last years as a missile test platform for the Bulava missile. I doubt he was really even set up or able to be an active, deployable ballistic missile submarine.
Crazy how the Russians were able to build five of these things and put them to sea. Well, Typhoon hull 1 is gonna get cut up into razor blades, but the Russians have laid the keel on hull 10 of the Borei class missile boats, and he will be named Dmitriy Donskoi. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:14:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The only interesting part of this story is they are doing this three years ahead of schedule. Issues from lack of maintenance? Problems maintaining it going forward? Cost? Not sure which to guess, but any of the above offer insight into the state of the parts of their military not in use in Ukraine. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:16:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:16:57 PM EDT
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Old..?
Laughs in Taiwan's SS-791 Hai Shih.. fucker is a WW2 US sub that still is operating |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:18:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana. And I... was never here. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:20:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I saw that headline. They didn't "lose" it. That implies that it was lost at sea to either military action or an accident. Alternately, it means that they forgot where they put it. (Have you checked all your other ports?) They are decommissioning it. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to an ancient cold war relic. It certainly beats the standard Russian Navy plan letting it get so far behind in maintenance it breaks down and has to be towed back to port... where it will then sit and fall apart due to rust and neglect. Yep. Another bullshit clickbait title in GD. So many rules here, but that doesn't violate any of them 
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:20:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:23:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It doesn’t really sound like its “lost” Sounds like ... Whales humping ... Or something. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:23:26 PM EDT
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Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:26:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Another bullshit clickbait title in GD. So many rules here, but that doesn't violate any of them It’s literally the title of the Newsweek article. Take it up with them. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:29:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. That displaces more than an Essex class carrier. Weird way of measuring them. I'd thought Project 941 Typhoons displaced 35,000 tons, but if you go to the wiki on them, it mentions two separate displacement figures: 23-ish thousand tons surfaced; 48 thousand submerged. How does the US measure displacement for subs? Anyway, still a big bitch, however you measure it. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 9:32:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana. fpni |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:09:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The crew is here in Montana.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:17:01 PM EDT
[#44]
How quiet were they?
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:19:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It doesn't really sound like its "lost" |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:19:56 PM EDT
[#46]
Why to go San Antonio!
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:22:13 PM EDT
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Goddamn thing was made to start a war.
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:25:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. That displaces more than an Essex class carrier. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:25:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why does the article say it's an Akula class? That's an attack sub. This is a Typhoon class It's MSNBC. Accuracy in reporting is not necessary. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:25:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Could you launch an ICBM horizontally? |
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