🧵The whole course of the 🇷🇺🇺🇦#war and in particular the recent events related to the attack of naval and aerial drones on Sevastopol have strengthened my opinion that we were preparing for the last war, and not for the war of the future, for the war of the next generation.1/ The Gulf War of 1991 became for us an analogue of the Battle of Jutland for the victorious Entente.2/

#war A few thoughts in the light of the latest news from the Black Sea Theater. Few people know that the Soviet/Russian military command has always positioned the Crimean Peninsula as its ”unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Black Sea. 🔗1/ In recent years, the aviation grouping of the Russian Air Force has been increased both qualitatively and quantitatively. Several Air Force bases in Crimea have been restored and modernized. 2/

#war Photo of the damaged cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea in 15 April 2022.⚠️
First impressions of this shocking photo. Life-saving equipment (rescue rafts) on board are missing, which means they were dropped into the water during the rescue operation./1 The cargo crane is not in a diametrically position and was apparently used to launch ship's boats.The doors of the helicopter hangar are open,but the flight deck is cluttered and not prepared for flights. It is likely that the helicopter remained on board the ship./2

#Navy By the way, to the question of the number of R-360 Neptune cruise missiles which currently the Ukrainian Navy has. 🇺🇦Ukrainian officials do not voice exact data for obvious reasons./1 #Navy However, in May 2019, it was announced that the State for Defence Contracts included 120 cruise missiles./2
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#war As a confirmation of my thesis yesterday about the underestimation by the Russian Navy of the threat of the creation and use by Ukraine of its own anti-ship missiles,I will cite an article published three years ago in a popular 🇷🇺magazine ”Military–industrial complex News”/1 The title of the article is very tendentious: ”Consumer goods: the Ukrainian "Neptune" does not go near the "storm of the seas". Abstract from the article: The expert explained why the Ukrainian Neptune missile does not threaten the Russian Navy./2
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#war I think that the main conclusion from the destruction of the cruiser Moscow by a missile strike will be the miscalculations of the 🇷🇺Russian Navy in intelligence and, as a consequence, in the assessment of the 🇺🇦oppositional forces./1 For a long time,information about the development,construction & production of cruise missiles by 🇺🇦 was not taken seriously by the command of the 🇷🇺Navy. The capabilities of the Ukrainian Navy for the combat use of cruise missiles, apparently, were assessed as extremely weak./2

Alaska Native @NortonSounder found a bottle in the sea with a message 🍾✉️ from 1969. This is a message from the crew of the Soviet vessel ‘Sulak’. Best greetings from the Russian fleet of the Far Eastern Shipping Company.Fleet V.R.H.F. from vessel Sulak.I welcome you, who found this bottle, please inform us at the Vladivostok-43 vessel Sulak,to the entire crew.
We wish you good health,long life and happy sailing!
20/06/1969