Volgoneft 109 is the one that sprung a leak yesterday in the Sea of Azov. The oil slick seems to indicate it did end up sinking, which isn't surprising since nearly everything but the bridge superstructure was underwater in the video. The two from several days prior were Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 and were both apparently on the Black Sea side of the straight. There are so many of these things sinking it's hard to keep up.
Tbf the Russians have been doing this for a long time, there are at least a couple older videos of those tankers snapping in half in a storm in the black sea
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while it is a 'bad thing' to lose the bow, it's not necessarily going to cause the loss of a ship. With that said, Russia has always sucked at making things that float, that's why patrol boats and frigates are all they have made since the fall of the Soviet Union.
@@ryangomez4462 Excuse me? The bow is more than the point of the front of the ship. It is the aforesection, which is "techincally" one third of the hull length. On a very long tanker, it could be one-fourth if the mid-section is divided into two parts. The last section is the aft and the end of the ship is the stern, which houses the propeller and the rudder. That's a simplified explanation, but hopefully, it conveys the idea that losing the bow of a ship will cause it to sink every time.
Now that Russia has a "landbridge" this bridge has a lower strategic value. By now they have probably come a long way developing the landbridge. Although I don't know how far they have come with railroad connection for example.
@@pettahify As recently demonstrated Ukraine can hit the trains using the landbridge with drones. Forcing russia to use the land bridge by disabling the Kerch might be a good strategy.
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Thanks for your commentary. I heard another analyst report that the Russian tankers were also VERY OLD, and past their 'warranty', so their disintegration may be another reflection of Russia's inability to maintain its infrastructure for the war and the sanctions.
The bow of the ship is only important if you want to keep water out of the main compartments. Something even the Grand Imperial Navy of the Tsar doesn't quite understand yet.
Well maybe it was planned. Mordor has the largest under water fleet in the Black Sea and it's always good to have a tanker carrying lots of petroleum products for the war ships and the submarine.
The Volganeft boats apparently were shortened about 30 years ago to convert them to river capable navigation. A large section of the center hull being removed and the remaining bits stitched back together. Both boats ripped apart at the repair seam apparently.
Simply a crime to have them set out for the sea. I wonder if there is an international law that can prosecuted this. Especially as they were in Ukrainian waters too.
it would make much more sense to lengthen them to increase capacity for rivers, because no large waves, shortened hull would be stronger against large waves, longer-extended one the exact opposite and that is what was said on a shipping related channel, that their hulls got extended, not shortened
Inland ships are often very long, I dont see why they would be shortened, but they are not built for open sea wave action. The amplitude and frequency of sea waves eventually makes the bow go up and the stern go down, introducing shear conditions anywhere along the hull and then it bends until it breaks. Even if they had removed a section, the "seam" would not be a weak point, its the entire construction that is unsuited for these forces. You can make a case for them to be too short for the wave pattern on that day, as mentioned, when sections of the vessel move in different directions, stuff breaks. They can be too short or too long for that but in any case, they were not designed for the open sea.
@@sirsmeal3192 Or they simply experienced catastrophic hull failure, which happens to tankers built for the open sea or the Great Lakes. Tankers needs very strict competent maintenance because their long hulls are a source of weakness. Hull fracture is probably the leading cause of tankers meeting a watery grave. God bless the crews and have mercy on their souls! 🙏
That's a shame. None of the news coverage even mentioned what the ships were carrying. Don't lose faith in natures ability to recover. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
That's what I said a week ago. A long silence...must have been against TY censorship/anti conservative algor rythem. Doesn't anyone find it funny that all these tankers have been in service for years, delivering oil to everyone with cash, and all of sudden in mild waves at least 3 go down, all in the same combat patrol area of a small sub? The narcos in the jungles can build semi-submersible subs, why not the Uks?
A good video and interesting that those Russian barges did not hold up yet parts of the mulberry harbour off the French coast are still in place after almost 70 years
Actually they did have a pretty decent storm go though Normandy a few days after the landing and it did a lot of damage to the mulberry harbors and temporary port facilities
@@shawnmiller4781As I recall, 1 of the Mulberries was pretty much destroyed, but the throughput they were able to get on the remaining one was amazing.
The Black Sea has two major storm areas in November _ January: 1) The southwest corner near Turkey and Europe's eastern border, 2) Near Crimea, particularly on the south side. Tankers are always vulnerable in big storms and a lot of them are not properly maintained. Waves beating against the hull of such a long heavy ship act like a battering ram, causing vibrations throughout the hull. What would be interesting is whether any video footage survived if it were transmitted from the bridge of each ship to the nearest base. From the bridge, you could see whether the hull was flexing. The telltale sign are the hatches, which will rattle or slightly open and close an inch or two. That said, clearly both ships suffered catastrophic hull failure, cracking in half. This usually happens about a third of the way down from the point of the bow at the front of the ship. The Great Lakes have plenty of tankers and because the waves on the Great Lakes are closer together than ocean waves or in the Black Sea, there's a lot of wrecks. Most of the tankers that were sunk in storms have hulls broken in 2 pieces. The biggest problem with maintaining tankers is recognizing areas of weakness in the hull. Fine cracks are not easy to identity and I presume it would take some type of x-ray machine to find them. Rust is easy to locate, but unless the steel is cut and replaced, applying rust inhibitor and paint won't solve the problem because cracks are a very serious indicator that the integrity of the hull is compromised. In closing, thank you for this very interesting video. If the UAF does not bomb the Kerch Bridge, then it's safe to assume that the bridge is in such bad condition that Ruzzia will unlikely attempt repairs. If that's the case, it's only a matter of time because it collapses.
Sorry, I lost concentration when you came with your comment on the missing bow: "I assume that is an important part of the ship" 🙂 I will try to contain myself and continue watching.
The bridge is Russia's escape route out of Crimea. ATM it can't be used to bring heavy equipment into Crimea, so isn't a threat from that viewpoint. Leaving the bridge in place would possibly be sensible since it's an exit for retreating Russian troops who would otherwise be forced to stand and fight.
An army that has no supplies can't "stand and fight". The whole "escape route" theory is a false narrative. If the bridge went down not even light trucks with small arms ammo and food can't pass. But the humanitarian catastrophe for the Crimeans would be real if the bridge went down and Ukraine didn't immediately open a land corridor from the Kherson direction.
Heavy lift floating cranes are expensive. And, there is a lot of work that simply cannot be done without them. To a lesser degree, the same can be said of any large mobile crane or crane fixed to a dock for ship work and cargo handling.
I salivate at the thought of the Kerch Strait Bridge going bye-bye. Its symbolic value is not to be dismissed lightly. It's Putin's accomplishment (lots of personal stake in it), and it's a symbol to so-called russians living in Crimea as well. As long as the road link is still up (as far as we know, the rail link is still structurally damaged and incapable of taking the weight of rail cars), they can leave if things become intolerable. But if it's taken out, then they'll feel quite trapped. The panic will create a ...challenge to governability. As the first Sea Baby attack proved (and as anyone with a fundamental knowledge of engineering knows), bridges are vulnerable to attack from underneath. They're built to be strong in the other direction. REALLY taking it down by destroying some of its supports is a completely different kind of task involving concrete drills and shape charges, but with Winter storm season on, eliminating the road link would have interesting effects.
This report here provides a pretty nice overview of what's going on around the Kerch Bridge, it's defenses, and it's troubles with maritime shipping. Thank you Suchomimus for this report. It does show some further vulnerabilities that could be exploited. We'll have to continue to observe this bridge, and the activities in the Black Sea. Another element to watch is how the evacuation from the Syrian ports affects the Russian activities here. Turkiye continues to restrict passage through the Bosphorus, but I understand the Russians are trying to negotiate with the Turkish government for better accessing, and/or more access due to the situation in Syria. We'll see what happens. Thanks again Suchomimus, and all the best to you, 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Glory to God, Victory for Ukraine, Rise Free Nations!
The tankers where full size, they cut a large section out of the middle and welded the remaining bow and stern together to create river tankers which werent rated for high seas. The tankers snapped along the welds.😢
which is perfectly viable, they were shortened what, 30 years ago. Its the lack of maintenance that is at play here, those cracks didnt suddenly appear and fail in one storm, they probably were known about for years.
@@ryangomez4462 Still doesn't change the fact that the base hull was never designed for deep sea operations to begin with. They were always just coasters. With the mods they became river boats. And with the glorious superior Russian maintenance scheme, for which the West has no analogy, they became bath tub boats. In their best of conditions these boats should never have ventured outside the Sea of Azov.
@@andersjjensen have you seen where they sank? one was in the sea of azov, the other right off the coast. the problem was lack of maintenance not any intrinsic flaw of the base hull. These were 50 year old vessels with a substantial hull modification 30 years ago with probably next to zero maintenance as that's the Russian way.
There is basically only speculation to be done until shit starts exploding. We don't know if they are facing limited production issues, or if they are saving up for something.
What’s going on with shipping did a good TH-cam video on why those ships sunk and reasons behind why they were where they were. Kind of pieces it together/
The tankers were originally much larger ocean going ships that were made smaller for use on rivers. This was done by cutting them into three sections with the middle section being removed and the stern and bow sections being welded together. The welds were too weak to withstand Black Sea storms. The welds broke and that was all she wrote. You can bet some oligarch made a lot of money by doing shoddy work. The bridge isn't tactically significant so I doubt Ukraine will put much effort into destroying it.
@@Blaidd7542 There was a third Volgoneft (109) with a fuel oil leak from the tank into the ballast tank sending a distress signal anchored off Port Kavkaz. Volgoneft-212 and 239 had 9,200 tons of mazut on board, the 109 had about 4,000 tons on board, but the authority said the "hull is intact". Hard to tell, if this is similar to the "nothing was hit" kind of statement... 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
@Blaidd7542 are you still insisting that only 2,,,,, tankers sunk. It was 3!!! The 3 one sunk on the 17th your ment to be the expert,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,??
There is an interesting video on yt (can't find it right now) explaining that because of the tight security of the Kerch Bridge, big vessels can't pass from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea. So smaller 50yo vessels, that are not made to navigate in seas at all, pass the bridge toward the Black Sea and get the goods transfered from the large ships. The problem being that if they encounter the slightest weather, they are doomed to break (they are basically river boats). So ruzzia has no problem spilling thousands of tons of oil and fuel into the sea, that inevitably get to the shores. It's an ecological crime, to add to all the other crimes committed by this regime.
We should thank the Russians for creating so many artificial reefs. Though the oil we could have done without. Hopefully the currents take any leaking oil right to their coastline.
Look up "Krasnodar oil spill" - mazut all over the holiday beaches with animals dying... another ecological desaster caused by the Evil Empire. 😡😡😡 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
Probably the fire. The Hydrocarbons are not great for wildlife but soon are broken up and coansumed by Phytoplankton and microbes. People overlook what a huge and efficient recycling system the planet has - even on human timescales.
The oil was mazut, a heavy oil fraction that is left after gasoline, diesel and so on are destilled away. It will be difficult to make mazut on water catch fire. The amount of oil, a few thousand tons, is similar to the natural yearly seepage of oil in the Black Sea. During winter the oil spill will be very noticeable, but during the spring and summer, microorganisms will eat much of the oil, and the remainder will become similar to the natural seepage.
@@suchomimus9921 There has been another incident. A third tanker has sunk; similar (river) design. Sal is the authority on shipping events, globally. This is his video on the first incident. th-cam.com/video/oNSgxKw6-Rk/w-d-xo.html
Russian oil tankers against Russia. Oil tankers long past their service life still in use, designed for Rivers not the ocean. I suspect China and India May reduce the amount of Russian oil shipped in. Along with Russia having Logistics problems with this loss.
The riverine tankers are having to go south of the bridge into the tougher stormy waters because the larger tankers can’t get past the barriers where the river tankers operate …. Again Russia makes its own life worse.
Can't they use Storm Shadow or atacms to strike the bridge I think that would be a better chance of hitting the bridge especially the rail Bridge and vehicle Bridge I wish they can do what they did the first time with the truck but I'm sure security has been heightened I know they probably could fly a couple aircraft with Storm Shadow very low to the water to avoid radar then pop up launch the Storm Shadow and go back down to sea level back to base it is worth a try and Russia's air defense will have no time to retaliate if they are that close they really need to modify the F-16 to carry Storm Shadow and other long range cruise missiles hopefully they get some JSOW even our older variance will work perfectly fine they don't need to be the new high-tech version we have tons of other standoff munitions that we don't use anymore and should be sending
Even the weather is against Putler.
Moon is kind of supporting him right now - 77,1% full, would light up drone boats fairly well on clear nights. New Moon on New Years, though.... ;)
Suchomimus is the most likable reporter crafting a niche and a style of reporting.
Yes!
I'm here for the facts but also the "suchomemes", that dry humour and witty remarks! Bow indeed is important for a ship!
Three years later and that GD bridge still stands. Really SUX.....
@@vegas1a its not a priority
Must be some of the T Rex genes in him...
I agree! The BOW might be an important part of the SHIP!
Just an assumption. 😅😅
Not in Sherwood Forest.
@@Zappa-bn3dq only when it's pronounced like "cow". If it's pronounced like 'though', then it can be used in the forest.
Opinion is divided on the matter.
While still attached, much less so.... Didn't russkies say that this was a training event?
Volgoneft 109 is the one that sprung a leak yesterday in the Sea of Azov. The oil slick seems to indicate it did end up sinking, which isn't surprising since nearly everything but the bridge superstructure was underwater in the video. The two from several days prior were Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 and were both apparently on the Black Sea side of the straight. There are so many of these things sinking it's hard to keep up.
Thanks... So Russia is critically short on Volgoneft class tankers...
The river tanker captains said no to the sea. The general said "Is boat, is water".
Tbf the Russians have been doing this for a long time, there are at least a couple older videos of those tankers snapping in half in a storm in the black sea
Hi Sucho! Thanks for your reports and especially for fundraisers for Ukraine!
Thank you, Suchomimus, for this amazing update. I hate that it is an environmental catastrophe, even though it is another loss for the Evil Empire.
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These tankers just aren't made to go outside the Kerch Strait...with the expected results, they break. Cheers Sucho. 🇦🇺 ⚓
Thanks for the update Suchomimus, The tanker north of Japan was towed back to port … 🇺🇦
The not made to even be in the Kerch Strait they are strictly river/canal vessels
Your channel is very reliable! Thank you!
Glad you enjoy the channel, it's definitely a fun topic to cover!
The Bow is kind of needed, as it is the pointy bit that shows which way it's going. If that is missing... then the boat is only going one way- DOWN 🤣
Was it a longbow, or a hairbow? Inquiring minds want to know? 😘
“Blubb-blubb-blubb….”
while it is a 'bad thing' to lose the bow, it's not necessarily going to cause the loss of a ship. With that said, Russia has always sucked at making things that float, that's why patrol boats and frigates are all they have made since the fall of the Soviet Union.
@@ryangomez4462 Excuse me? The bow is more than the point of the front of the ship. It is the aforesection, which is "techincally" one third of the hull length. On a very long tanker, it could be one-fourth if the mid-section is divided into two parts. The last section is the aft and the end of the ship is the stern, which houses the propeller and the rudder. That's a simplified explanation, but hopefully, it conveys the idea that losing the bow of a ship will cause it to sink every time.
There was a warship in WW2 that survived well without a bow, though that is an exception.
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Thank you for your great, factual reporting and analysis. Great job Suchmimus!!!
Thanks for that Mr Sucho. Keep well
Thanks for your update Suchomimus ,oil slick on the way to the shores of Azov sea … 💙💛💙
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Hi great video, love your sarcastic dialogue on these and your nod to sources that you use yop notch
When the tanker Bow...bows to the laws of physics and gravity and separates from the ship....
The weather has been pretty stern.
Adding to the Submarine Fleet.
One way or another, at some point in time that bridge is going to be gone !!
Now that Russia has a "landbridge" this bridge has a lower strategic value.
By now they have probably come a long way developing the landbridge. Although I don't know how far they have come with railroad connection for example.
Ukraine promised to take down the Kerch bridge before the end of the year.
Let's wait and see when Santa delivers Poohtin a present!
@@pettahify right, they have their land bridge to crimea, and if the war ends right now they will have all they really want. trump will make sure.
@@pettahify As recently demonstrated Ukraine can hit the trains using the landbridge with drones. Forcing russia to use the land bridge by disabling the Kerch might be a good strategy.
@@wamingo bridge operates at reduced loads due to prior damage already, most stuff is ferried across the strait
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Thank you, nice to see this report, and nature clearing the way for the strategic debris.
Thank you for the update.
Thanks for your commentary. I heard another analyst report that the Russian tankers were also VERY OLD, and past their 'warranty', so their disintegration may be another reflection of Russia's inability to maintain its infrastructure for the war and the sanctions.
Thank for all your updates m8, short or long, good job.
The bow of the ship is only important if you want to keep water out of the main compartments. Something even the Grand Imperial Navy of the Tsar doesn't quite understand yet.
Ah, so remove the bow and you're in trouble lol
Well maybe it was planned. Mordor has the largest under water fleet in the Black Sea and it's always good to have a tanker carrying lots of petroleum products for the war ships and the submarine.
It is perfectly viable to remove the bow or he stern of a ship if you want to promote it to submarine.
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Good stuff, thanks!!
The Volganeft boats apparently were shortened about 30 years ago to convert them to river capable navigation. A large section of the center hull being removed and the remaining bits stitched back together. Both boats ripped apart at the repair seam apparently.
Simply a crime to have them set out for the sea. I wonder if there is an international law that can prosecuted this. Especially as they were in Ukrainian waters too.
it would make much more sense to lengthen them to increase capacity for rivers, because no large waves, shortened hull would be stronger against large waves, longer-extended one the exact opposite
and that is what was said on a shipping related channel, that their hulls got extended, not shortened
Inland ships are often very long, I dont see why they would be shortened, but they are not built for open sea wave action. The amplitude and frequency of sea waves eventually makes the bow go up and the stern go down, introducing shear conditions anywhere along the hull and then it bends until it breaks. Even if they had removed a section, the "seam" would not be a weak point, its the entire construction that is unsuited for these forces.
You can make a case for them to be too short for the wave pattern on that day, as mentioned, when sections of the vessel move in different directions, stuff breaks. They can be too short or too long for that but in any case, they were not designed for the open sea.
They were not "designed" to let the bow hang unsupported above rolling sea waves and the welds couldn't support the bow by themselves.
@@sirsmeal3192 Or they simply experienced catastrophic hull failure, which happens to tankers built for the open sea or the Great Lakes. Tankers needs very strict competent maintenance because their long hulls are a source of weakness. Hull fracture is probably the leading cause of tankers meeting a watery grave. God bless the crews and have mercy on their souls! 🙏
HL Sutton and Suchomimus banding together to keep us informed about what's going on... Who needs Janes'? It doesn't get much better than that!
I've been on the beaches in Anapa today cleaning up oil, it's an unbelievable catastrophe, I don't know how this place will ever recover.
That's a shame. None of the news coverage even mentioned what the ships were carrying. Don't lose faith in natures ability to recover. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Thankyou for your efforts! Every bit helps.
Remember Ukraine also has a torpedo drone they developed 🤞
That's what I said a week ago. A long silence...must have been against TY censorship/anti conservative algor rythem. Doesn't anyone find it funny that all these tankers have been in service for years, delivering oil to everyone with cash, and all of sudden in mild waves at least 3 go down, all in the same combat patrol area of a small sub?
The narcos in the jungles can build semi-submersible subs, why not the Uks?
A good video and interesting that those Russian barges did not hold up yet parts of the mulberry harbour off the French coast are still in place after almost 70 years
Actually they did have a pretty decent storm go though Normandy a few days after the landing and it did a lot of damage to the mulberry harbors and temporary port facilities
@@shawnmiller4781As I recall, 1 of the Mulberries was pretty much destroyed, but the throughput they were able to get on the remaining one was amazing.
The Black Sea has two major storm areas in November _ January: 1) The southwest corner near Turkey and Europe's eastern border, 2) Near Crimea, particularly on the south side.
Tankers are always vulnerable in big storms and a lot of them are not properly maintained. Waves beating against the hull of such a long heavy ship act like a battering ram, causing vibrations throughout the hull. What would be interesting is whether any video footage survived if it were transmitted from the bridge of each ship to the nearest base. From the bridge, you could see whether the hull was flexing. The telltale sign are the hatches, which will rattle or slightly open and close an inch or two. That said, clearly both ships suffered catastrophic hull failure, cracking in half. This usually happens about a third of the way down from the point of the bow at the front of the ship. The Great Lakes have plenty of tankers and because the waves on the Great Lakes are closer together than ocean waves or in the Black Sea, there's a lot of wrecks. Most of the tankers that were sunk in storms have hulls broken in 2 pieces. The biggest problem with maintaining tankers is recognizing areas of weakness in the hull. Fine cracks are not easy to identity and I presume it would take some type of x-ray machine to find them. Rust is easy to locate, but unless the steel is cut and replaced, applying rust inhibitor and paint won't solve the problem because cracks are a very serious indicator that the integrity of the hull is compromised. In closing, thank you for this very interesting video. If the UAF does not bomb the Kerch Bridge, then it's safe to assume that the bridge is in such bad condition that Ruzzia will unlikely attempt repairs. If that's the case, it's only a matter of time because it collapses.
If you ask me, they would use their drones on the landing ships at Tartus once they have the S-400 on board.
The bridge is more a symbol than an asset
They can’t get their drones to Tartus because it is in the Mediterranean and their drones are in the Black Sea.
Wouldn't be the first time Ukraine launched drones from a civilian cargo ship. Kind of expect this to happen if Ukraine can get the assets in place.
I betcha they could...@@martinedwards2004
Id like to thank the sea god Poseidon 🙏🏼 🔱 🌊
They are creatng a lovely Mordor!
It is what you call a "Window of Opportunity"
There's a 4th Russian tanker in trouble somewhere in the Pacific.
Russia is falling apart do to corruption and mis-management!
I don’t think that the bridge is at the top of Ukraines list.
If they can hit oil refineries and weapon plants……..
Rubbish
Thanks for the report.
Sorry, I lost concentration when you came with your comment on the missing bow: "I assume that is an important part of the ship" 🙂
I will try to contain myself and continue watching.
The bridge is Russia's escape route out of Crimea. ATM it can't be used to bring heavy equipment into Crimea, so isn't a threat from that viewpoint. Leaving the bridge in place would possibly be sensible since it's an exit for retreating Russian troops who would otherwise be forced to stand and fight.
Ukraine knows what they are doing and why
An army that has no supplies can't "stand and fight". The whole "escape route" theory is a false narrative. If the bridge went down not even light trucks with small arms ammo and food can't pass. But the humanitarian catastrophe for the Crimeans would be real if the bridge went down and Ukraine didn't immediately open a land corridor from the Kherson direction.
Heavy lift floating cranes are expensive. And, there is a lot of work that simply cannot be done without them. To a lesser degree, the same can be said of any large mobile crane or crane fixed to a dock for ship work and cargo handling.
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Jeebus, things are falling apart
Always interesting
Thank you
Thank you
👍 Thanks.
I salivate at the thought of the Kerch Strait Bridge going bye-bye. Its symbolic value is not to be dismissed lightly. It's Putin's accomplishment (lots of personal stake in it), and it's a symbol to so-called russians living in Crimea as well. As long as the road link is still up (as far as we know, the rail link is still structurally damaged and incapable of taking the weight of rail cars), they can leave if things become intolerable. But if it's taken out, then they'll feel quite trapped. The panic will create a ...challenge to governability.
As the first Sea Baby attack proved (and as anyone with a fundamental knowledge of engineering knows), bridges are vulnerable to attack from underneath. They're built to be strong in the other direction. REALLY taking it down by destroying some of its supports is a completely different kind of task involving concrete drills and shape charges, but with Winter storm season on, eliminating the road link would have interesting effects.
I thought the bridge was no longer in use because the structure is not safe. Haven't most of the orcs evacuated Crimea?
@@martimasters7704 I believe that the road link is down to one lane.
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2:00 Yes, the BOW is an important part of a ship. Without it you can't shoot any arrows.
The front fell off, but it all happened outside of the environment.
Interesting information.
This report here provides a pretty nice overview of what's going on around the Kerch Bridge, it's defenses, and it's troubles with maritime shipping.
Thank you Suchomimus for this report. It does show some further vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
We'll have to continue to observe this bridge, and the activities in the Black Sea. Another element to watch is how the evacuation from the Syrian ports affects the Russian activities here.
Turkiye continues to restrict passage through the Bosphorus, but I understand the Russians are trying to negotiate with the Turkish government for better accessing, and/or more access due to the situation in Syria. We'll see what happens.
Thanks again Suchomimus, and all the best to you,
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The tankers where full size, they cut a large section out of the middle and welded the remaining bow and stern together to create river tankers which werent rated for high seas.
The tankers snapped along the welds.😢
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Ooh I so hope the Sea Babies are on their way already
Retrofit Seababy with torpedoes 🤔
I bet you they are working on it already!
Don't let an opportunity get away!
These boats were NOT designed. These are cut in half and shortened old seafaring ships. This is why they always break apart like this.
Not even seafaring
They were build for operation on the river and canal system.
They don’t get the wave action on those waters
which is perfectly viable, they were shortened what, 30 years ago. Its the lack of maintenance that is at play here, those cracks didnt suddenly appear and fail in one storm, they probably were known about for years.
@ also true
@@ryangomez4462 Still doesn't change the fact that the base hull was never designed for deep sea operations to begin with. They were always just coasters. With the mods they became river boats. And with the glorious superior Russian maintenance scheme, for which the West has no analogy, they became bath tub boats. In their best of conditions these boats should never have ventured outside the Sea of Azov.
@@andersjjensen have you seen where they sank? one was in the sea of azov, the other right off the coast. the problem was lack of maintenance not any intrinsic flaw of the base hull. These were 50 year old vessels with a substantial hull modification 30 years ago with probably next to zero maintenance as that's the Russian way.
I wonder if the GUR could persuade an oil tanker to collide with the bridge and spontaneously combust? Just a thought 💭
Sweet. Good news. Santa covered an opening for the good Guys!!!
Black sea is often turbulent in the winter due to cold weather from the north meeting warm weather from the south
So...the front fell off?
I suspect there was cardboard involved.
The front fell off.
I hate when that happens!
Is that normal?
@@wamingo to russia yes, if you got 2 happened in one day, statistics say its quite common.
Assuming the brown water is oil slick. Black bits are defensive barges. ?
Such - There's is a lot of talk about the new missiles and rocket drones UKR now has, yet there are no recent attacks.
There is basically only speculation to be done until shit starts exploding. We don't know if they are facing limited production issues, or if they are saving up for something.
How stupid is it to put non-seaworthy ships in a storm at sea? 🙄
What’s going on with shipping did a good TH-cam video on why those ships sunk and reasons behind why they were where they were. Kind of pieces it together/
Dr. Salvatore Mercogliano knows his stuff.
Bow? Bow!
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The tankers were originally much larger ocean going ships that were made smaller for use on rivers. This was done by cutting them into three sections with the middle section being removed and the stern and bow sections being welded together. The welds were too weak to withstand Black Sea storms. The welds broke and that was all she wrote. You can bet some oligarch made a lot of money by doing shoddy work.
The bridge isn't tactically significant so I doubt Ukraine will put much effort into destroying it.
3,, oil tankers are SUNK,, NOT 2,,,
It’s 2 oil tankers and one crane vessel sunk, and one oil tanker with a leak.
@@Blaidd7542 There was a third Volgoneft (109) with a fuel oil leak from the tank into the ballast tank sending a distress signal anchored off Port Kavkaz. Volgoneft-212 and 239 had 9,200 tons of mazut on board, the 109 had about 4,000 tons on board, but the authority said the "hull is intact". Hard to tell, if this is similar to the "nothing was hit" kind of statement...
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@Blaidd7542 are you still insisting that only 2,,,,, tankers sunk. It was 3!!! The 3 one sunk on the 17th your ment to be the expert,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,??
I don't really understand why the bridge is still there at all.
There is an interesting video on yt (can't find it right now) explaining that because of the tight security of the Kerch Bridge, big vessels can't pass from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea.
So smaller 50yo vessels, that are not made to navigate in seas at all, pass the bridge toward the Black Sea and get the goods transfered from the large ships.
The problem being that if they encounter the slightest weather, they are doomed to break (they are basically river boats).
So ruzzia has no problem spilling thousands of tons of oil and fuel into the sea, that inevitably get to the shores.
It's an ecological crime, to add to all the other crimes committed by this regime.
After the storm, maybe now it is time to let the storm's shadow take out the bridge?
Are those black marks all oil slicks😮
Oh....They are cloud shadows
Krasnodar is full of them now. Mazut on the holiday beaches with dying animals...
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the bowe??? bow my friend
Would marine drones hold up in stormy seas?
Lots of bad weather…
We should thank the Russians for creating so many artificial reefs. Though the oil we could have done without. Hopefully the currents take any leaking oil right to their coastline.
Currents run the wrong direction, but wind made up for it. Wind was from the WSW and drove a lot oil ashore.
Look up "Krasnodar oil spill" - mazut all over the holiday beaches with animals dying... another ecological desaster caused by the Evil Empire. 😡😡😡
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It already has ,but if you saw it you'd know that is a terrible thing to wish for.
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@@Thelostgoldhunters The oil has to go somewhere, better Russia has to do the cleanup than the rest of the world.
Below the washed up wreck, are all the blobs oil slicks?
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Crimea river.
looks like an oil barge meat wave attack
Which is the bigger ecological disaster - a large oil spill at sea or a large oil spill at sea that's on fire? Just wondering.
Probably the fire. The Hydrocarbons are not great for wildlife but soon are broken up and coansumed by Phytoplankton and microbes. People overlook what a huge and efficient recycling system the planet has - even on human timescales.
The oil was mazut, a heavy oil fraction that is left after gasoline, diesel and so on are destilled away. It will be difficult to make mazut on water catch fire.
The amount of oil, a few thousand tons, is similar to the natural yearly seepage of oil in the Black Sea. During winter the oil spill will be very noticeable, but during the spring and summer, microorganisms will eat much of the oil, and the remainder will become similar to the natural seepage.
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Is a sunken floating-crane a 'crane'?
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oil should be seen from ..reportedly 4 sunk with oil products..
Two sunk, one sprung a leak is what I heard. The other one was a crane
@@suchomimus9921 There has been another incident. A third tanker has sunk; similar (river) design.
Sal is the authority on shipping events, globally. This is his video on the first incident.
th-cam.com/video/oNSgxKw6-Rk/w-d-xo.html
😂 Yeah the bow is kindof important. But you never know.
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Soon Putin will be whining about the West's "weather dominator."
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Russian oil tankers against Russia. Oil tankers long past their service life still in use, designed for Rivers not the ocean. I suspect China and India May reduce the amount of Russian oil shipped in. Along with Russia having Logistics problems with this loss.
Could that oil get also on fire?
The riverine tankers are having to go south of the bridge into the tougher stormy waters because the larger tankers can’t get past the barriers where the river tankers operate …. Again Russia makes its own life worse.
Can't they use Storm Shadow or atacms to strike the bridge I think that would be a better chance of hitting the bridge especially the rail Bridge and vehicle Bridge I wish they can do what they did the first time with the truck but I'm sure security has been heightened I know they probably could fly a couple aircraft with Storm Shadow very low to the water to avoid radar then pop up launch the Storm Shadow and go back down to sea level back to base it is worth a try and Russia's air defense will have no time to retaliate if they are that close they really need to modify the F-16 to carry Storm Shadow and other long range cruise missiles hopefully they get some JSOW even our older variance will work perfectly fine they don't need to be the new high-tech version we have tons of other standoff munitions that we don't use anymore and should be sending
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Suchomimus Do remember it´s only 8 meters deep . so it will never sink so you can´t se it