>9 more tankers hit in the Azov Sea>21 vessels in 72 hours: 19 tankers, 1 dry cargo ship, and 1 ferry in Kerch.
>>65312642if russia had to evacuate crimea by boat, they'd just mix civilians and military personnel together so the ukies wouldn't strike them fearing the backlash of civilian casualties
Where would they evacuate Crimeans to?
>>65312677far east, as per tradition
>>65312688>>65312677>Promised good factory jobs and housing in the Far East>Get off the train at their new homes>Wonders why the signs look funny>They are all written in Choson Gul>Blyat
Don't forget the surface forces are doing their job
>>65312897A clear case of 14.5mm deficiency. SAD! MANY SUCH CASES!
>>65312688Jewish Oblast has suffered a population decline
They hit another 14 vessels overnight, the total is now 35 vessels in 72 hours.Question to the seafaring folks, what were the ships doing there? Because many seem to be at anchor and I don't see any indications for a big supply convoy to Crimea. Did the Russians just park them there and hope Ukraine didn't have the range to reach them? Also Russia is obsessed with not looking weak, which is hard when you lose 35 vessels in 72h, what will they do now to save face?
There are also ships that appear to be unladen, given their low waterline.
>>65315028Maybe it's just the infamous Russian push logistics at work again.>no fucking idea how much of X they need there and what their timetable is>they're probably lying anyway because I'm also lying in my reports to command>fuck it, let's just send this many, better to look like I'm doing my job>tons of X pile up at some random location because supply, demand and schedules don't match
>>65312642So are there any oil spills or are the ships just disabled?
>>65315043>engines out>at anchor>high in the water, so no cargodoesn't look like a supply run.
>>65312677Evacuate?
>seize Crimea to secure a port for your black sea fleet>lose entire black sea fleet trying to secure Crimea
>>65315048Bringing a shitton of empty tankers to wait for someone to figure out how to use them to supply Crimea would match the pattern, wouldn't it?
>>65315079even by Russian standards that's a questionable spot for an anchorage. They have been pummelled now for 4 days without a single shot in defence. Sorry but that smells fishy, more like they've been using this anchorage for years and it was save until now because of some shady political deal that has run out now. (hint, Ukraine erased the electric grid on Crimea with a vengeance, but haven't touched the very juicy and highly important 500kv switch nodes in the Kuban peninsula across the strait which is Russia proper)I'd say those ships have been sitting there at anchor happily for quite some time and they got surprised that it is open season on them now.
>>65315099Actually they did that last night
>>65315099Or the terminals and depots in the region are now so damaged that many ships are piling up at the anchorage, waiting for their turn to do a run.And with the coastal infrastructure and AD already fucked, the Unmanned Systems Forces are now prioritizing this part of that chain.
>>65315099They hit those within the last 2 days
>>65315108for the last 3 nights they have dropped 10+ ships each night. and I haven't seen a single gun shooting on those drones, not even some desperate sailor opening up with his AK. They struck 36 vessels by now without any resistance at all., many of them at anchor, engines out and unloaded. And that just seems fishy to me, there must be more to this story than "supply run gone wrong"
>>65315118they started 4 days ago with two small riverine tankers, next night they got 9 tankers, then it escalated quickly.
>>65312677To Moskva. Cruisder Moskva.
>>65315127No, i mean the substations, those got hit
>>65315123the answer is the russians are both desperate and incompetent
With low seawater salinity and shallow depths that hinder attacks by underwater drones, this is likely a suitable area for anchoring ships.
>>65315137nope, untouched, 30 km from Crimea. And they drone that region on a nightly basis. So I guess the power net in Russia proper is still off limits.
Perfidious Albions Online...
>>65315150Power net in Belgorod was hit multiple times. It's a question of priority. They don't have infinite number of drones.
Same guy in multiple threads, must be a bad day to be a zigger shill
>>65315162that thing is the master switch for entire southern Russia, it's a AAA target and sits there since the start of the war. it is stands for a reason
>>65315168Russians cant really do the nightly chimpout much longer with no food or gas and ukes mass producing interceptors and its kinda their only thing aside from being gay with each other.
>>65315162>They don't have infinite number of drones.Well they should. Thanks for reminding me that I should go and donate.
>>65315150Dumb question, but could it be related to the Zaporitzia NPP?As in, if they knock out that power station and the entire region goes dark, the power plant goes dark Fukushima-style, and the reactors can't be SCRAMed without external power, leaving the reactors completely unresponsive and uncontrollable, leading to a possible Chernobyl 2.0.
>>65315208>reactors cant be scramed without external powerNigga, its not a fucking rbmk reactor. It has multiple automatic and manual shutdowns. Also, its not being hit simultaneously by a record setting earthquake then tsunami. You're not creating a second Chernobyl without significant internal effort
>>65315123I can see why this seems fishy. The Russians are deceitful bastards and love their smelka embezzlement solutions so it does seem odd that they aren't trying shit. But try what?They have no supplies, no method to get those supplies to the boats, other higher priority defensive priorities. If they wanted to weld some mgs or something to a tanker they couldn't even do that because the entire logical process of doing that requires no existent gasoline. You are watching the Russian genuinely run out of solutions and likely the only reasons those boats even left harbor on their suicide mission is that to the crews death by drone is preferable to anal rape. But soon enough Russia will run out of non roosters who still think they wont be raped and still have no gas.
While striking infrastructure deals a blow to the Russian troops stationed there, the fact that it also destroys the lives of Crimean residents likely presents a thorny dilemma for Ukraine.
>>65315224Not really
>>65315224Nah, the ukes that were there are gone and replaced by rich russians. Fuck em.
>>65315028Obliviously it's a bait for stupid hohol crests, ships were old and weren't eligible for write off due to bureaucracy)
>>65315218You can just check all of those tankers. They were either last spotted in Volga or in Turkey.Likely bought benzin and tried to save Crimea
>>65315123>and I haven't seen a single gun shooting on those drones, not even some desperate sailor opening up with his AK.You can see fire against the USV here: >>65312897
>>65315208Unlikely but it would be really funny if Chernobyl 2.0 happened in Ukraine (again)
>>65315249thats not in the sea of azov but in the black sea and thats no riverine craft but a full sized super tanker.
>>65315174>it's a AAA target and sits there since the start of the warYou can't hit a ground target with AAA fire retard.Well, the air defence cuck can but Ukraine doesn't.
>>65315208>Dumb question, but could it be related to the Zaporitzia NPP?Extremely dumb question, look at those two places on a map.Crimea gets its power grid blown up all the time, Ukies don't give a fuck about causing black outs in Crimea.
>>65315436>filenameMy sides are rampant.
>>65315099>>65315028>What were the ships doing there?The pumping station and docks in the port were damaged on the first day of strikes, and got hit a couple weeks ago as well. The other pumping stations away from this anchorage, and the railroad bridges leading from them, have been getting gaped for weeks. The ships are offshore in a stack waiting their turn to come in and offload. On that note, the Kerch bridge has some of the best layered anti-sea drone defenses in the world right now, and the Ukes have been pushing those for *years* with very limited success. The problem is, that also makes the strait virtually impassable to any surface traffic. Letting tankers out - or in - means opening up the submarine nets and making every ship in the anchorage and the Kerch Bridge vulnerable to even more drones. As an aside, far as I can make out elsewhere the Russians only have 50-100 of these little 7kt fast riverine gasoline tankers available. If true, that means this isn't ~3% of the fleet. It's 40-60%. I'd appreciate any correction other Anons have on this, this is mostly a minor sperg tangent I've gone on in the last week because my grandfather commanded a Patapsco-class AOG in WW2Anyway. >>65315048>>65315044More than half of the strikes are aimed to cut through the big distribution pipe amidships or the rearmost fuel tank, into the machinery spaces. In the aftermath shots we have so far, I've seen at least six ships with massive tank blowouts. Three of those were already sinking when observed in the background from later drones in the strike. Many of the remaining ships struck in the hull were firing jets of burning gasoline from the impact sites. They're not all empty by a long shot>>65315123There was counterfire from one of the ones hit on day two of the strikes, but it appeared to be small arms from the bridge. The drone pulled up and slammed into the starboard bridge wing. Likely an illegal rifle owned by one of the crew.
