🇷🇺#Russian #Navy The floating dock PD-50 of the Shipyard №82 after the incident. Cargo cranes are missing.The floating dock completely sank. October 30, 2018. pic.twitter.com/tXK061Ei4v— Capt(N) (@Capt_Navy) October 30, 2018
The Warzone/The Drive: Russia's Dry Dock Accident Could Have Far Larger Repercussions Than A Damaged Carrier
Russia's biggest dry dock has completely sunk and it's debatable if it has anything that could fully replace it anytime in the foreseeable future.
A day after Russia's massive PD-50 drydock suddenly sank underneath the country's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, as it was receiving a long-awaited overhaul in frigid Murmansk, just how big a deal this may end up being for the Russian Navy is becoming clearer. The dry dock, which is the largest of its kind in Russian hands, appears to have sunk at first on a steep incline before it disappeared totally beneath the water's surface. Russian officials are now saying that it could be many months before it is raised from the seabed 160 feet below and that doing so would be a very tedious and delicate operation. That's if they decide to salvage it at all.
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WNU Editor: They will probably build another dry-dock, but it will take years. In the meantime .... how are they going to service the larger vessels in their fleet?
