Sinking of the Moskva - Animated Analysis 

Some British diver will one day go to the bottom of the Black Sea and say: "You can't park there, mate!"

It's been a year now since Moskva got promoted to submarine. Time flies by

The response from the island never gets old.😂

I think you correctly identify incompetence and arrogance as the primary causes of the sinking. Ukraine's missile forces did very well, but that cruiser on paper should be easily able to defend itself against two of those missiles, with all the countermeasures and defenses it has on board. If Moskva was functioning like it was supposed to, with all its radars and defenses active and its maintenance issues taken care of, I'd think it would take a barrage of at least a dozen missiles like the Neptune to actually sink the ship. In the words of one Ukrainian soldier, "we're very lucky they're so f***ing stupid."

20 year USN enlisted retiree here, Surface Warfare Specialist. I saw Moskva (nee Slava) during a deployment to the Soviet 5th Escadra (Mediterranean Flotila.) He was a good looking ship laying there at anchor off Greece in 1985. Powerful looking, fresh paint, no sign of running rust that a even a relatively new ship spending a good deal of time at sea would have. His reaction to the approach of the destroyer I was in at the time was to try to get underway and go to flight quarters at the same time, preparing to launch his KA-25 helo. My favorable impression quickly evaporated when, as he was accelerating immediately after starting his main gas turbine engines suffered the destruction of at least one main turbine, maybe more. There was a belch of heavy, brown smoke from his stack and he went Dead in the Water. The marine gas turbine engines that the Soviets were using at the time in the Slava class required time to run at idle to warm up before placing them under load or advancing the throttles. Slava started her mains and immediately began maneuvering. One of my friends was a sonar tech and he told me afterward that the sonar shack got a good recording of Slava's sound including the main plant tearing itself apart. The Soviets laid down 4 Slava class ships, completed 3 with the 4th actually launched and partially fitted out before the USSR fell. That ship is still in afloat and moored to a pier in downtown Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

The most vital ship in the Russian navy is the tugboat. Which tells you all you need to know.

With its huge missile launching capabilities, the sinking of this ship early in the war seems to under-appreciated by many.

I really hope you make more of these videos. I'm surprised you don't have a lot more views. Really well done.

I went aboard Russian / Soviet ships in the 90's. Their damage control is so bad compared to the West. Where a US vessel would have 10 damage control lockers, Russian ships only had 2, maybe 3. US sailors are trained from the beginning to save the ship... Russian doctrine seems to be avoid the damage and we don't need damage control. I guess we can see what thought wins out...

In an interview, retired US Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges spoke to the incident. He was listing Ukrainian advantages in the conflict. One of the items he listed was how much of the elder Ukrainian staff had Soviet/Russian experience/training. Insider kniwledge. He went on to give the example of the Moscva sinking. Ukrainian staff knew of a Moscva vulnerability--its radar only saw 180degrees at a time. So they employed a drone or drones to keep the Moscva looking east. The Neptunes came in unnoticed.

As an American combat veteran, the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people is amazing. Were I a younger man I’d come fight beside them. I hope to see a complete and total victory of Ukraine soon.

I'm glad I visited this ship in Lisbon Harbour in 2008, because nowadays it appears difficult to visit her again. It was a beautiful ship with a very nice Guarisson, but they're the enemy now and their rightful place is in the bottom of the sea. Too bad.

When I was in the NAVY (USS Juneau LPD 10 75-79) every day was taken up with the P.M.S. the planned maintenance system, you were either running the equipment or maintaining the equipment, a ship at sea or in port needs constant maintenance, it seems that the Russian NAVY may have forgotten about this rule.

It was a _"Reverse Surfacing Maneuver",_ a Russian specialty first tested with the "Kursk", in april 2022 perfected with the cruiser "Moskva", and now they are aiming for the pinnacle of this kind of maneuver: The Reverse Surfacing Maneuver of Russia itself. 🌻🌻 Glory to Ukraine! - Glory to the Heroes! - Stay safe! 💙💛

"If we dive deeper." I see what you did there!😅

Great video again! As always I am eternally grateful for Russian corruption and incompetence. 🙏 🙏 🙏

At least the airport invasion made sense and could have provided a huge advantage if sucessiful. Sending a warship near the enemy coast with it's radar turned off was just plain dumb.

Russian propaganda logic is confusing. "Let's not admit that our ship was lost while heroically fighting in glorious combat for the righteous cause. Let us instead claim that our navy is so incompetent and poorly maintained that it just caught fire on its own and then exploded." (Glory to Ukraine!)

Fate has favored the ZSU since day one. So many unimaginable victories. Defeating the VDV at hostomel. The successful deffense of Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv. The sinking of the Moskva. The retaking of Kharkiv and Kherson. The defense of Bakmutt. Soon we will see the largest counter attack since the Second World War. May fortune continue to favor our allies. Victory will be theirs!

"Does not work properly" Well, that sums up the general state of Orcistan.

9:39 When a court has to help count the dead ...

Dont forget what Putin said, all Goes according to plan 😂😂😂

"The Moskova" is a weird name for a coral reef...

Mosckva went to perform a special submarine operation!😂😂😂😂😂💙💛💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Really clear and concise documentary! I've subscribed and hope you make some more!

I’ve sub’d to your channel, you do an excellent job of breaking down timelines and information that contradicts what’s been said. It’s crazy to think that Russia doesn’t have the ability to perform maintenance on the ship. With everything that was broken they where defenseless and obviously never thought Ukraine had the ability to hit them.

Could you imagine if a modern US Navy ships had this major lists of problems? The ship would probably be getting sent to dry dock for a full rebuild.

Great documentary, thanks for making it.

Soon Kerch Bridge might follow Moskva to the ground of the Black Sea! I will surely celebrate that moment with a generous sip of Ukrainian vodka. Slava Ukraini!

This channel is about to blow up. its quality is just too good

"Smoking accident" they say. 😂

I never heard the audio for the go fuck yourself quote. It was delivered perfectly lol

Well presented, keep up the great work!

Great job! Please keep the videos coming! Superb work!

Discovered your channel today on my front page, and I absolutely love your content so far. Can't wait to see this channel grow, as it's one of the very few channels worth enabling notifications for. Hope to see cited sources in the future too for those who want to dig a bit deeper.

Please make more of these videos. Your channel is incredible!

You should have more viewers. The videos you do is well made and very interesting.

11:28 these ukranian soldier have a metallic balls

Damn, even the bakery oven was broke LOL!

I think, with the sinking of this ship, highlighted the massive incompetence of the Russian forces even moreso than the land invasion. Because anyone can fuck up a land invasion if you are not sure what resistance to expect. But this ship, the pride of the Russian Navy, being sunk by two direct hits, and then we get the report on all the failed, broken, (and likely stolen) components that just go to show the incompetence, theft and corruption is in all parts of the military, and that they aren't as mighty as they seem. Of course you can argue that if you did enough research it was clear to see how bad it was before the war, with incidents such as the Kursk, or even just looking up about how the Admiral Kunetsov(?), the carrier, operates. I feel sorry for them, but I don't.

Outstanding analysis and reporting.

"Go Fuck Yourself" Is still very funny HAHAHAHAHAHA

I am binge watching all your content mate. I love it! Please make more with this level of detail!

Congratulations on the excellent quality of your videos, I hope you can do more. Honestly you have my recognition.

I see tugs attended. The Russian Black Sea fleet actually has one really interesting support vessel - the Kommuna, the oldest active duty warship in the world. Launched by imperial Russia in 1912. Is is a submarine rescue vessel so, now the Moskva has joined the submarine force, it has been used to explore salvaging the Moskva. True.

"Russian warship go f___ yourself." ...a quote that will go down in military history.😆

Sounds like that boat never should’ve left the dock?

Great amount of interesting details!

Your series of videos is very interesting! I encourage you to make more of them!

Great work, keep it up 😊

Summoning the algorithm!

You amaze me again with another amazing video. Much love from your fan in South Texas

If you think all these "problems" on board the Moskva are specific to this ship you'd be fooling yourself. If they have that many issues with their "Flagship" just imagine the conditions on all their other vessels.

Great job! Thanks for such a quality and analysis.

your videos is excellent, keep on doing more of them

That ship should have been in dry dock for extensive repairs, not patrolling. How stupid.

How did Russia think they were going to take on NATO at this condition?

I love watching your videos, keep up the good work 👍

I remember CoD MW3 campaign, they've shown these cruisers make their way to NY 😂

Moskva cruiser: "Neptune, hit me - I'm so wrecked anyway - so that I could claim to die in combat!"

USS Yorktown CV-5 took four bombs, four torpedoes, one plane crashing into her, and arguably was only sunk after some depth charges detonated in close proximity to her. The Moskva didn't seem to be built as well....

Thanks for the video. Very interesting 😎👍

Brilliant work. x

Hi Archive, It was a wonderful video 📹 about a horribly maintained ship 🚢. Thanks

Glory to Ukraine! Thank you for the video!

6:35: The main ruzzia ship could either communicate or have an anti-air system enabled. It explains a lot.

First the ship, soon the city

Under the sea🕺 GLORY to ukraine and the heroes of Ukraine!! 🇺🇦❤🇯🇲.

Great work!,,

I follow the war closely, so why has it taken RU-vid so long to bring this wonderful channel to my attention?

Subbed. Excellent video’s.

I wonder if OceanGate will do a tour?

2:54 thats a rather anemic looking "flagship"

Got yourself a new sub here, I really like you videos. Great work!

Nice target, the radar image must be huge

very informative, excellent.

ended with a classic

Nice work acknowledging The Operations Room. Very large respect as Ops Room is one of my absolute favourites on YT and I had been thinking about the similarities. Regardless, your approach is excellent on all yr works. After Ukraine wins the war, Hollywood will have such a rich list of potential actions for conversion to a movie. Cos daaaamn Ukraine is FULL of heroes against TYRANNY.

Russian court: We acknowledge 17 sailors later died of seasickness after the sinking.

amazing video!!

Let’s be honest it wasn’t Ukrainian land based radars that first detected the Moskva likely NATO P-8’s or satellites that first gave the Ukrainians the information of the Moskva location.

The weird part was the Moskva never really defended itself, it definitely could have shot down both Neptunes. It just seemed too easy

Great video thanks 👍

The state of the Moskva is a good example of the state of the entire Russian army. More to appear than to be.

UA: "ru///ian warship, go fysk yoursef!" ru: well... DONE!

Slava Ukraini!!!

These are amazing

Moskva had unique air defense radars. Using EW resources, Ukrainian forces could have gotten a line of bearing to the vessel from the shore. If they had two EW receivers they could have had a general target area that allowed Ukraine to launch the cruise missiles. Drones or other recognizance assets could also localized the warship.

i love that NAFO video of that dog playing the Titanic on a flute for the sinking of this ship 😂

I far prefer the Russian explanation, that they somehow managed to set fire to their own ship in an act of supreme incompetence. This has become a reoccurring event with Russian personnel, with factories and ammo depots constantly being accidentally exploded by Russians all the time! My absolute favorite was how a drone managed to fly across miles of Russian territory to attack the Kremlin, somehow completely uncontested! Good work Russia, keep it up!

Well done.

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

"Russian warship, go fuck yourself." That pretty much sums up the whole war.

Keep going🇺🇦🇺🇦

It was sunk by a cigarette guys, we all know that. According to our Ivan friends that constantly spamming on these youtube platform, Russia media is tobe trusted with extreme prejudice XD

now we waiting next video "battle for the Zmiinyi (Snake Island)"

They lost a missile ship but gained a submarine🤣🤣🤣

Nice video

Як одна москва втонула, то і друга вже згорить :)

nice mate