The cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, was sunk by fire, Russia and Ukraine have their own opinions, Ukraine said that the Ukrainian army sent **2 Kh-35 anti-ship missiles to sink the Moskva, while Russia claimed that the Moskva was sunk by fire. Although many people do not believe that Russia can sink by itself in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the author believes that this is also very possible. Because, the Russian Black Sea fate "fire", the Moskva fire and sank, it is already the third serious ** fire accident of the Black Sea Fleet after World War II, and it is also the second flagship of the Black Sea Fleet to withdraw from the sequence due to fire. The first two were in 1974, when the Black Sea Fleet Type 61 destroyer "Brave" was sunk by fire, and in 2014, when the Black Sea Fleet cruiser "Kerch" was decommissioned due to a fire.
Let's start with the first fire accident. In 1974, the Black Sea Fleet held military exercises near the Crimean Peninsula, and at 9:50 on August 30, the Type 61 destroyer "Brave", which was part of the Black Sea Fleet, entered the exercise area;At 9:55, the ship entered the state of exercise;3 minutes later, that is, at 9:58, when the soldiers on the ship were energized in the pneumatic missile compartment, they mistakenly connected the circuit of the ship's air defense missile, and the air defense missile booster in the ammunition compartment began to burn, and then ignited another nearby air defense missile.
But just after 2 anti-aircraft missiles, all 16 missiles in the entire anti-aircraft missile compartment happened **!The violent ** directly blew up the tail structure of **, and the anti-aircraft missile launchers flew from the tail to the chimney in the middle. Soon, the ship sank to the bottom of the Black Sea 6 hours after the fire. This is the first time since World War II that the Black Sea Fleet has been **misfired** and withdrawn from the sequence.
The second incident is not far away, it happened in November 2014, less than 1 year after the crisis situation in Ukraine, and the Black Sea Fleet had already begun to take on heavy tasks. At that time, the cruiser "Kerch", built during the Soviet era, was the second largest ship of the Black Sea Fleet after the flagship "Moskva". With a full load displacement of 9,700 tons, the ship assumed the role of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet before the cruiser "Moskva" was put into service, and was one of the pillars of the fleet. At that time, it seemed that the Russian Navy ** fleet had 2 missile cruisers, which was really majestic and intimidating.
However, at 5:12 a.m. on November 4, 2014, when the Russian army was silent in the joy of the full occupation of Crimea, the missile cruiser "Kerch" burst into flames, covering an area of 100 square meters, and burned for several hours before being extinguished. At that time, the situation around the Black Sea was as complicated as it is today, and many people thought that the Ukrainian army launched missiles or bribed Russian crews to create the fire.
In order to find out about the matter, Russia set up a special investigation committee to investigate the "Kerch" fire accident, and finally found out that there was no maintenance work on the ship at the time of the fire, and it was not like it was caused by improper operation of the crew. Exactly 2 years ago, on February 15, 2020, the Russian Navy announced the decommissioning of the cruiser "Kerch", in fact, since the fire of "Kerch" in 2014, he has rarely moved, and now it has also been converted into a museum.
However, the history turned out to be so similar, the same flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the same cruiser, as the main battleship that carried the girder of the Black Sea Fleet together with the "Kerch", the missile cruiser "Moskva" actually caught fire. What is even more intriguing is that the fire of the cruiser "Moskva" also occurred at the time of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In 2014, the Russian army took Crimea, and the "Kerch" accidentally caught fire;In 2022, the fierce battle between Russia and Ukraine is in full swing, and the "Moskva" accidentally caught fire. This has to make people wonder if someone in the crew has been bought
On April 14, 2022, the Moskva caught fire and sank on the way back to Sevastopol, never returning to its home port. During the war between Russia and Ukraine, the cruiser "Moskva" was erased from its port, participated in the battle in a fully armed combat posture, and participated in the battle to capture "Snake Island". He also sank the Georgian Navy's missile boat "Tbilisi" in the Russian-Georgian Battle in 2008, which can be described as a meritorious warship of the Russian Navy. The cruiser "Moskva" has participated in Sino-Russian joint naval exercises many times, and has also left a deep impression on my fans, everyone thought that Moskva would become a museum with Kerch after being decommissioned, but what people didn't expect was that this mighty battleship was destined to sink to the bottom of the sea!
The truth will always be found out, the third fire accident in the Black Sea Fleet directly led to the sinking of 1 Type 61 destroyer (the brave "Glorious" class cruiser (Moskva) and the retirement of 1 "Kara" class cruiser (Kerch), it can be said that the Black Sea Fleet has not had any major war, and has lost 3 capital warships after World War II, 2 of which were flagships, which is really embarrassing. Of course, if the fire is not a "conspiracy", then there is a problem with the training system of the Russian Navy itself, and the Russian Navy soldiers will always cause damage to the warship due to poor operation, so we must learn a lesson and seriously improve it in the future.
You know, even the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy, the Kuznetsov, has had many accidents. While participating in an air raid mission in the waters near Syria, the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier had an accident in which a carrier-based aircraft hung up a blocking cable, causing the MiG-29K fighter to crash into the sea. In the subsequent maintenance work, there were two serious accidents in a row. First, the PD-50 floating dock for repairs was de-energized and sank, and the crane arm smashed on the flight deck of the Kuznetsov, and then after being transferred to the shipyard, there was another fire accident and injuries to people.
In short, even if it is not injured by the Ukrainian army, even if it is not a conspiracy for the crew to be "bought", the Russian Navy must also carefully review its own training system, why there are always non-standard operations and imperfect maintenance, resulting in injuries, how to prevent these accidents in the future, I am afraid that Russia must think deeply about the problem.