Russian shadow fleet ship that sank in 2024 carried nuclear reactor components to North Korea, may have been torpedoed, La Verdad reports
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-shadow-fleet-vessel-that-sank-in-2024-carried-nuclear-reactors-to-north-korea-la-verdad-reports/
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Ah yes, not allowing any help to a ship that is sinking really does not scream “everything is hunky dory and we are doing nothing illegal”.
Having this intelligence and the “balls” to actually torpedo this ship, can only have been done by the US (or an ally that was given permission) I assume. Too bad, we went from this to a US president taking direct orders from the Kremlin.
not surprised, at least some services still do seem to work, no matter current russian infiltration
I find the torpedo hypothesis a bit far fetched, from the comfort of my armchair, as it loosely theorizes a supercavitating one. Those are fairly exotic and not used for much, and there seems to be no particular reason to suspect one. As for a regular torpedo, you will never be in any doubt when the warhead goes of. The article quotes seismographic data of about 50 kg TNT which is way too small for a regular torpedo, typically carrying a few hundred kg TNT eq, though there are lightweight torpedoes that would fit the bill but those are typically anti-submarine weapons.
The damage appeared to be caused from the outside, caused by three explosions, according to the captain that is. If this was true, a set of demolition charges on the hull seems a much simpler explanation, again from the perspective of my armchair.
Good, there should be more ‘unknown perpetrators’ sinking ruzzian ships. Time to stop cutting our cables too
Nonsense. Biden didn’t tweet beforehand that he did that.
It may have been dissolved by a flying diplodocus too. Maybe. Could be. I’ve got no hard evidence or anything. Click on my article to see why I think this may or may not be a thing. Next on stuff I made up for clicks…
Honest question: Why can’t you just, you know, sink the entire shadow fleet and call it defending against pirates or something?
Sounds like the plot of a Tom Clancy novel. Incident is wrinkled out as a simple sinking or crew incompetence while behind the scenes a new cold war reaches boiling point. Jack Ryan Jnr is caught in the middle. Published by Penguin, all rights reserved 2028
Putin’s home is under attack and Russian ships are torpedoed, constant Russian misinformation.
Let’s hope it was the Royal Navy!
I still don’t understand why russia would ship nuclear reactor parts around half the world instead of transporting them by rail to their land border with north korea. Is there no way to transport containers that heavy by rail? I know its above the usual limit for that but not by that much
modern torpedoes are designed to create a giant air pocket underneath the targeted ship that will cause the ship to break in half or breaking the keel to render the ship unusable. It almost certainly wasn’t a torpedo.
Sounds good 🙂
It’s wild how the official story of a simple sinking completely falls apart when you consider they refused all assistance and the damage was reportedly from multiple external explosions.