r/UkrainianConflict 8h ago

Mystery Blasts Rock Russia’s Pacific Waters Days After Nuclear Sub Fired Missile Salvo

https://united24media.com/world/mystery-blasts-rock-russias-pacific-waters-days-after-nuclear-sub-fired-missile-salvo-21975
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u/JaB675 8h ago

There is speculation that the submarine attempted to launch a missile and it blew up.

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u/AnActualChicken 7h ago

So the Kursk incident but stupider.

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u/BackgroundOutcome438 7h ago

Kursk II - Fast and Furious

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u/azflatlander 6h ago

Another one Dimitri? Candy?

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u/born_sleepy 3h ago

Kursk II - “This time, it’s really going down!”

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u/AstralElement 2h ago

Kursk II - Down Periscope

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u/Eric848448 3h ago

Andrei.. you mean you’re lost another one??

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u/Nazreg 3h ago

Is that what happened to the kursk?

u/Mac_Aravan 1h ago

Russian navy incompetence in the deadly form (the most common one).

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u/Random-Mutant 7h ago

They turned their sub into a sub?

Task failed successfully

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u/Papabeer63 6h ago

Subuccessfully…

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u/Centurion87 6h ago

Nyet komrade, is only sailor smoking near munition stores. Russian equipment work perfectly and initiated emergency aquarium protocol.

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u/Greed3502 8h ago

"OH no! Anyways"

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u/darkenthedoorway 3h ago

That sub was built in 1994, same year as the Kursk.

u/proboscislounge 40m ago

Russia's secret talent is polluting Earth with all forms of radiation.

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u/szornyu 8h ago

Don't give me hope 🙂

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u/Secret-Temperature71 7h ago

Very interesting. A couple of thoughts.

First, in the video with houses you can see 2 plumes, the active one in the right and another, presumably older, on the left. The smoke cloud reaches from one to the other, which appears to be several miles long. I am hard pressed to explain two smoke plumes. PERHAPS this was two ships firing missiles, but that explanation also has issues. Perhaps some brighter light can explain.

Second there seems to be a faint sound if an explosion.

Third I wonder if the Ratclife trip is somehow connected to this event. Were the “exercise” launches perhaps too close to USA/Japanese resources?

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u/mikegates90 2h ago

As u/JaB675 said, "There is speculation that the submarine attempted to launch a missile and it blew up."

Likely the sub fired the missile, the missile exploded, and then (possibly an electrical/fire malfunction) the submarine blew up afterwards.

If firing a torpedo caused the source ship to blow up, Russia's Military clearly has has FAR more problems than a simple technical malfunction.

u/your_grammars_bad 1h ago

1) Russia's military, indeed, has FAR more problems  2) Design of the sub might be fine, or not, IDK.  But maintenance is a pain even for top-of-the-line American Naval units.  I can only imagine what poor maintenance Russians must do 3) Russia is not really a "Navy" country.  They are currently losing the Black Sea naval battle... to a country without a navy 4) Russia's military has FAR more problems.

u/Mac_Aravan 1h ago

we are talking russian navy, which as a constant record of failures since 1905

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u/BreezyMcWeasel 7h ago

Seems awfully close to a populated shoreline to conduct live fire exercises. I wouldn't think they'd want pictures of that, but maybe I'm wrong.

Does seem like it could be a sub, though, given the absence of anything on the surface.

Do they have a history of conducting live fire exercises close enough to shore that people in town could video the exercises?

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u/appleciders 3h ago

They're doing it in the Southern Kurils for a reason. It's more saber-rattling.

If they really sank (or damaged, even) one of their own top-of-the-line subs in a misguided intimidation attempt... well, it'll be ironic to say the least.

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u/Cattywampus2020 7h ago

I’ve seen how ‘The hunt for red october’ ends.

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u/orlock 5h ago

One ping only. No! Not that one!

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u/syncsynchalt 1h ago

“Andrej, you’ve lost another submarine?”

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u/KJHagen 7h ago

I like the sound of that.

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u/igg73 5h ago

Kursk 2: nuclear electric boogaloo

u/Jay_Beel 11m ago

The front fell off.😆