https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2659b5a631.jpg

Story for context: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...rrier-murmansk

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/...v-1040x572.jpg
not just kuznetsov but the whole team is on fire this season.

and some boat.

Combat Aveo...

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cdf5d65f02.jpg

Took me a moment to notice that.

:bowrofl:

There have been a few edits over the past several hours. Apparently they are thinking of partially sinking it to put it out, but with all the troubles it's given them I don't know why they just drag it out to sea and scuttle it.

Last time it ran air operations was in 2016 off of the coast of Syria. It traveled with an ocean-going tug it case it broke down (again). Left with 10 aircraft: one had to ditch after the arresting cable broke, the second rolled off the deck after the replacement cable failed. The rest landed at Syrian airfields.

To be fair, even when everything is "working" it looks like it is on fire:
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...00a4f7062.jpeg

There is a strange part of me that's want to DD something so ridiculous. And that I would care so little about being scratched, dented, etc.

I'm shocked that Russia (nee: the USSR) designed and built a conventionally-powered aircraft carrier in the 80s.

I mean, what good is an aircraft carrier if you can't sail it halfway across the world at a moments' notice, with no concerns about on-station duration? The whole point of a carrier is to be able to say "We have just anchored a floating airbase just outside your territorial waters, and will be staying here for as long as we please."


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...4067f801de.png

AIUI even the US can't do that because a carrier without its escorts is very vulnerable, and those escorts are all conventionally powered. The Navy had some nuclear cruisers on the 80s, but they've all been retired now.

--Ian

True, but escort ships can be cycled on and off station.

Also, defensive carrier group escort is one the principle roles of the US' fleet of attack submarines. And, like the carriers, their only duration limit is the food supply.

Presumably the same could be said of a conventionally-powered carrier -- assuming they'd built more than one of them, at least. :)

Also, a carrier that's out of jet fuel isn't much use.

--Ian

True, but jet fuel can be brought out by an oiler.

I guess that unrep would be possible for the carrier's main bunker tanks as well, that's just a hell of a lot of oil...

I guess I'm just surprised that with so much naval nuclear propulsion experiance under their belts, the USSR would have designed a non-nuclear capital ship in the 80s.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d7cc94e4d9.png

^ = :rolleyes:




Some good nerd-porn:



Especially the high-speed closeups of the switch operating towards the very end.

Saw this walking out of my office building. I’m guessing janitorial had some excitement not too long ago.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...27253bdaa.jpeg

More nerd stuff:

I've never actually understood how a manual switchboard actually operates.

I guess, on the plus side, the exposed pin is at least on the neutral side of the receptacle.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f37fbe3cc2.png

That is such a groaner that I am halfway tempted to :hatecat:.

Mind you, I'm not going to, because I appreciate nerd jokes.

But that was the "cargo shorts and socks with sandals dad-joke" version of a nerd joke.

stayed at an air bnb a few months ago and found something similar.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d33d834d07.png

KEY DIFFERENCE:
Location of the broken prong
material of the box / face plate

Note that I did not discover this by seeing it first. I discovered it with a bare leg.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/12/se...sla-valve.html