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Ukraine's military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while it was anchored at a port in the occupied Crimean peninsula. 

The Rostov-on-Don, a kilo-class attack submarine launched in 2014, sank after it was struck in a missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol on Friday, Ukraine's general staff said in a statement. 

It was reportedly one of four submarines operated by Russia's Black Sea fleet capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles. The Russian defence ministry has not commented. 

Officials in Kyiv said the attack also destroyed four S-400 air defence systems protecting the peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If this is true then its so magnificent, a second submarine sunk by a country without a navy...

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's not the second one, it's the same one that had been heavily damaged by a Storm Shadow missile in 2023 and had been in dry dock undergoing repairs ever since. This hit probably finished the job for good.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

A target so nice they sunk it twice

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Ah bummer, well nice anyways! Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Gimli on sinking the submarine of Theseus: That still only counts as one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Rare Turkey W

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Submarine violent decommission and conversion into reef successful.

Slava Ukraini!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

The Ukrainian underwater biome restoration project is way ahead of schedule. So nice of the Russians to donate so much equipment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once they confirm which boat it was, I'll mark it off

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You already have. It's the one that was previously hit by storm shadow in dry dock. They did some repairs, refloated it, and then the Ukrainians hit it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

HA thank you for the info

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"And Russia's internal security service, the FSB, recently said it foiled a Ukrainian plot to destroy its last remaining aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The ship, launched in 1985, has been undergoing repairs since 2018."

I hope Ukraine can still make this happen. That would a be huge win, even if the carrier is never functional and isn't in the black sea. Imagine if Russia no longer even had a carrier. That'd be one way to put them in their place.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

All Ukraine has to do is nothing. The Kuznetsov has about a 75% chance of sinking every time it puts to sea

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My understanding is that Russias maintenance cost on that carrier is so much higher than its capabilities that Russia is trying to bait Ukraine into expending resources attacking it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So hit the docks and maintenance facilities it's at, not it itself

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a friend who actually was serving on this aircraft carrier. It's hell and the crew was dis moraled due to lack of basic needs like towels and working bathrooms.

Sunking Admiral Kuznetsov would look like destroying mental asylum for depressed patients

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've heard it's a bit like a labyrinth where nobody even has up-to-date schematics of the passages on the ship, and a lot of spaces are just sealed and conserved. And it stinks everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m grateful it wasn’t a nuclear sub.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

.......wait, what? Its hard to tell from context.

Are you saying you're glad that at least russia still has it's nuclear sub?

Or are you saying you're glad that russia wasn't attempting to use a nuclear sub?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

I guess they mean that they are happy it wasn't a nuclear-powered sub because of the environmental damages the release of radioactive material might cause.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Wat. Seems a much more reasonable read is that they are grateful a Russian nuclear sub isn't contaminating the entire area right now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What the other guy said. I don’t support Russia, but nuclear fallout is bad for everybody. Underwater nuclear explosion would be more contained than in the air, but I don’t wanna see radioactive fish with three eyes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Destroying a nuclear sub, or a nuclear weapon, doesn't lead to a nuclear explosion. It takes considerable care to cause a nuclear explosion, and smashing a reactor or warhead just leaves you with a pile of radioactive scrap.

Not saying that isn't a problem, but it's way less of a problem than a nuclear explosion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Destroying a nuclear sub, or a nuclear weapon

Or any craft with a nuclear reactor.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Ah, yes, they are destroying one every other week.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

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