That video is ludicrous! Just ship after ship after ship after ship after ship after ship after ship!
I love the ones that open where you can see the fireball from the previous hit. Now just need to line up the video cuts a bit better with the tune.
From the video it looks like most of the drones are specifically targeting the bridges of the ships. If they’re able to both eliminate qualified bridge crews (and discouraging replacements), and disabling the ships themselves without causing them to leak crude into the ocean then that’s a huge multi-pronged win in my book.
I was thinking maybe it’s because the damage is more irreparable. If you blow a hole in a ship but it doesn’t sink, then i think that can sometimes be repaired fairly easily even if the hole is huge, just weld on metal plates over the hole. But if you take out the control center then i would guess the ship is permanently useless, because fixing that would mean replacing all the expensive parts and doing deep inspections and finding all the faults and rewiring everything, and at that point it would be cheaper and faster to just build a brand new boat, so the ship is totaled
I think that you’re vastly underestimating the value of a ship. They wouldn’t total an an entire ship because of some localized damage.
I definitely don’t know much of anything about this stuff, but i think my guess is reasonably correct. With any object, at a certain point it isn’t cost effective or time effective to repair instead of replace. Being totaled doesn’t mean the remaining object has zero value, it just means the cost of repair exceeds the cost of a full replacement. It works the same as when a car or any other complex machine is totaled.
In the case of a ship I’m sure that some components are vastly more difficult and expensive to repair than other components. When the much more expensive and difficult-to-replace parts are destroyed then the ship will be totaled. That doesn’t mean all the remaining parts will be thrown away, but the ship as a whole will not be useable again. The individual components will be inspected to find ones that are still in good condition and those pieces will be salvaged to rebuild other ships. By size the salvaged pieces may be much larger than the destroyed parts, but that’s a meaningless distinction. It would be a ship of theseus argument
Tbf, the hull of a ship is one of those expensive parts. As long as the hull is reasonably intact, it’s likely worth repairing/replacing the rest. Also tbf, you would arrive at the ship of Theseus argument again.
Perhaps it’s different for oil tankers, it could very well be that the specialized oil equipment is very expensive and that replacement parts are hard to ce by (for Russia).
If a fire is uncontrolled it will most likely consume the ship. Should be realistic and expect all of these ships to sink and spill their cargo on the sea rather than be nice because we are weak idiots.
Shadow sanctions
Holy shit. Ukraine is pumping up the jams!
VIIRS hotspot data does show a cluster near the entry to the Black Sea.
