Originally Posted by
NutLoose
The first line of that interesting article is quite clever: "
The Russian cruiser Moskva will go down in history."
Edit, in order to add a reader's comment I found on another site.
Sister ships of her class visited Norfolk and San Diego in the 1990s. The visits were well documented in the press and in some naval publications, one of which I still have. One of the things US Navy visitors found noteworthy was the complete lack of firefighting and damage control equipment in them. Every compartment and passageway of US and Japanese warships are packed full of fire hoses, fire mains, low light cameras, breathing apparatus, wooden timbers to shore up sagging bulkhead, wooden wedges to hammer into leaks, fire axes, saws, sledge hammers, battery operated battle lanterns, etc.. None of that was apparent on the Russian ships. It doesn't surprise me they could not control the fires and flooding. However they did have a real fancy spa with a pool and fake waterfall for the crew to relax in.
From
https://japantoday.com/category/worl...sinks#comments
Last edited by jolihokistix; 16th Apr 2022 at 02:32.