USS Fitzgerald collision in C7F

[Max the Mad Russian]

Fffffuck, my former ship - MPK-205 Kazanets, Germany-built ASW corvette - has just smacked Sweden container ship today near Oeresund bridge in Baltic Sea. Bet Russian CO will be guilty as a shit. This class of Uboote-Jaeger is absolutely useless as ASW asset due to the moderate speed - its central shaft turbine of original design, Soviet-built Albatross-class corvette (NATO Grisha), substituted with the third diesel, so the max speed of an old Jerries' ship is about 24 knots - and all the time suffered from the poor work of pitch-blades automatics. Old hull, old machines, old everything...

 

[ChuckMK23]

Fffffuck, my former ship - MPK-205 Kazanets, Germany-built ASW corvette - has just smacked Sweden container ship today near Oeresund bridge in Baltic Sea. Bet Russian CO will be guilty as a shit. This class of Uboote-Jaeger is absolutely useless as ASW asset due to the moderate speed - its central shaft turbine of original design, Soviet-built Albatross-class corvette (NATO Grisha), substituted with the third diesel, so the max speed of an old Jerries' ship is about 24 knots - and all the time suffered from the poor work of pitch-blades automatics. Old hull, old machines, old everything...

Russian frigate and container ship collide in Danish waters

A Russian frigate has collided with a Marshall Islands-flagged container ship off Copenhagen, Denmark’s navy said

abcnews.go.com

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

Wonder why they call her "frigate". This is poor corvette, Parchim-class which is a replica of Grisha-class for secondary navies of Warsaw pact, somehow delivered to Soviet Navy too. Yet the only thing better than on original Grishas is the wardrooms layout - this is the only small combattant on Soviet Navy with three-bunks rooms for officers and up to 10-person rooms for the men. A 5-stars luxury by Soviet standards

In my memory somewhere in 1990 or so one Parchim of our brigade lost the steering while turning in the harbor and hit by her stem this one MPK-205 (where I was O-1 on the very first DivO tour) right in the locking part of the starboard twin-tube torpedo launcher, where the live 53-cm torpedoes were loaded, so the launcher began to turn and eventually stopped in the position approx amidship, being pointed directly at the Krivak-class frigate moored across the harbour. The liquid shit had hit the fans all across the Baltic Fleet bases and staffs then.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Wonder why they call her "frigate". This is poor corvette, Parchim-class which is a replica of Grisha-class for secondary navies of Warsaw pact, somehow delivered to Soviet Navy too. Yet the only thing better than on original Grishas is the wardrooms layout - this is the only small combattant on Soviet Navy with three-bunks rooms for officers and up to 10-person rooms for the men. A 5-stars luxury by Soviet standards

In my memory somewhere in 1990 or so one Parchim of our brigade lost the steering while turning in the harbor and hit by her stem this one MPK-205 (where I was O-1 on the very first DivO tour) right in the locking part of the starboard twin-tube torpedo launcher, where the live 53-cm torpedoes were loaded, so the launcher began to turn and eventually stopped in the position approx amidship, being pointed directly at the Krivak-class frigate moored across the harbour. The liquid shit had hit the fans all across the Baltic Fleet bases and staffs then.

pictures! pictures!

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

Well, I really doubt that someone except the deputy CO of brigade for repair, EDO O-4, had been allowed to snap that. But that was like this one firing a dummy torpedo from portside mount. 40 degrees AFAIR the max angle the launcher may turn. Back then, our CO roared to skipper who rammed us "don't get back, just shut your fuckin' diesels, don't move!!!!" just to exclude the further twist his smashed stem could bring about being extracted from the hole in our hull, since everything might provoke live torpedo in outer tube to get crazy. There wouldn't be launch of course and even if it would the distance to frigate was too short to arm the torpedo fuse, but torpedo itself could be broken and cause fire. But it all became clear munites after, yet at the very moment of collision everyone on both bridges were fascinated by bearing of the launcher right in the white side number on grey hull of the frigate along opposite pier. Feeling as if your belly sucks your balls deep within

 

[ChuckMK23]

Russian Warship Kazanets Collided With A Cargo Vessel In The Baltic Sea

The incident occurred in dense fog, but the Russian corvette reportedly had its tracking system deactivated.

www.thedrive.com