Ukraine’s military says it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea using naval drones, a report that has not been confirmed by Russian forces FILE - A Russian ship named Caesar Kunikov passes through the Dardanelles strait in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Se...
It said the ship was sunk in an overnight operation carried out by the "Group 13" special forces unit using Ukrainian-made Magura V5 maritime drones. It estimated the loss to Russia's navy of being in the region of $65 million. A video posted on social media by Ukraine's military inte...
Last month, Ukraine claimed it twice sank Russian warships using drones. On Feb. 1, it claimed to havesunk the Russian missile-armed corvetteIvanovets, and on Feb. 14 it said it destroyed the Caesar Kunikov landing ship. Russian officials did not confirm those claims. Kyiv officials ...
The Orsk is a Project 1171 landing ship tank (LST) of which there are two assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. It was used to ferry vehicles so… if it sinks it partially blocks the port and significantly screws with Russian logistics…if. Could be quite an inconvenience, much more than if...
in 1902, meeting her fate at Port Arthur. Sunk by siege artillery, she was refloated and reused by the Japanese until 1922 as IJN Hizen. A strange mix which resumes a strange fate for a rather straightforward, well-balanced and powerful battleship, probably the best Russia ever had in ...
The fishing ship did not react on them either. On 29 December 2011 around 1220 UTC, submarine K-84 Ekaterinburg caught fire while in drydock in Murmansk, and after several hours of firefighting efforts, she was partially sunk in an effort to control the fire. Initial statements from ...
It’s not clear if those two other ships included Ivan Golubets and a landing ship that was allegedly also attacked. Neither typically carry Kalibr missiles ready to fire, so another possibility is they were being used to reload Admiral Makarov’s missile launchers at sea. This content...
Oct. 11, 2018. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. The two astronauts are making an emergency landing after a Russian booster rocket carrying them into orbit to the International Space Station has failed after launch. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lov...
An Ocean going ship will have a fairly large fuel tank in the hull. A train engine is going to need more than 50 gallons in the fuel tank. It is easy to see how it has become necessary to have 75 million barrels of oil each and every day. It is a Catch 22 now. Oil is pur...
In late March, Ukraine saida missile strike had destroyed a Russian landing shipat the port of Berdiansk. Nathan Hodge and Olga Voitovych contributed to this report from Lviv, Ukraine. Vasco Cotovio contributed from Kyiv, Ukraine. Natasha Bertrand, Anna Chernova, Radina Gigova and Jorge Enge...