Russia's aircraft carrier catches fire

[Sabretooth]

Russia's only aircraft carrier catches fire; 6 believed injured and 1 missing

By Zahra Ullah and Darya Tarasova, CNN
Updated 1149 GMT (1949 HKT) December 12, 2019

Moscow - (CNN) Russia's only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire on Thursday morning during repair work in Russia's Arctic Sea port of Murmansk, according to Russian state news agencies.

Six people are thought to have been injured and one person is believed to be missing so far, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
The fire broke out during maintenance work in the first power unit and a thick plume of black smoke was seen from the upper deck.
The area currently ablaze covers 120 square meters (1,292 square feet). Diesel fuel is currently burning, and firefighters are using foam to try to bring it under control.
Admiral Kuznetsov passes through the English Channel in October 2016 on its way to the Mediterranean.

The press service of the Zvyozdochka ship repair centre said the specialists working onboard the vessel has been evacuated, TASS reported.
A source with the emergency services told TASS that firefighters cannot reach the source of fire because of heavy smoke from burning cables.
Admiral Kuznetsov is the Russian navy's largest warship and its sole aircraft carrier capable of carrying horizontal take-off and landing aircraft, according to TASS.
The warship made its first combat deployment in 2016, in the Mediterranean Sea, when its deck-based fighter jets delivered strikes in Syria.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/12/europe/russian-carrier-fire-intl/index.html

 

[Dante80]

Trouble-hit aircraft carrier catches fire in Murmansk

The fire on "Admiral Kuznetsov" at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms.

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By Thomas Nilsen

December 12, 2019

The fire started at 10.20 am Russian time on Thursday local media in Murmansk reports.
Ten people are reported injured, of which six are at intensive care, TASS reports from Murmansk. Diesel fuel caught fire on a lower deck, FlashNord reports.

The area of the fire has reached 600 square meters, Interfax reports. Several videos posted on social media, including the Baza Telegram channel, from the yard show thick black smoke coming out from the upper portside of the vessel. Firefighters are struggeling to get the fire under control.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1205054965699547137

Yard No. 35, also known as Sevmorput, is a branch of the Zvezdockha yard in Severodvinsk. The yard is located in the Rosta district in the northern part of Murmansk and the quay where «Admiral Kuznetsov» is at port is next to Atomflot, the service base for Russia’s fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers. As the video shows, the smoke blows north towards Atomflot, which is a few hundre meters from the burning carrier. Here, several service ships with nuclear waste are at port. Onshore, there are storages for spent nuclear fuel casks and solid radioactive waste.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1205066194082041856

«Admiral Kuznetsov» is Russia’s only aircraft carrier. The vessel has been under modernization since 2018, a work that is said to last until 2022.

Last fall, a huge floating dry-dock holding the carrier sank at yard No. 82 in Roslyakovo north of Murmansk. The deck of «Admiral Kuznetsov» was then damaged as a crane fall over.

In November 2014, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed while trying to land on the aircraft carrier during a mission in the Mediterranean off the Syrian coast. Also in 2005, a Su-33 aircraft went off deck during landing and sank.
«Admiral Kuznetsov» was commissioned in 1991. The 305 meters long vessel is the largest in the Russian navy and has all time been deployed with the Northern Fleet.

Source: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/12/fire-aircraft-carrier-admiral-kuznetsov

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Again? They should really stop babushka making blins in the mess hall.

 

[Deliorman]

Most of the news I have ever heard about Admiral Kuznetzov are about all kind of accidents and fails. Why don’t Russians just turn it into scrap metal already and try to build a new Aircraft Carrier that will be a real gem of their navy.
They have all the technology to build a (nuclear) AC that will be much better than that.

 

[Georg]

Most of the news I have ever heard about Admiral Kuznetzov are about all kind of accidents and fails. Why don’t Russians just turn it into scrap metal already and try to build a new Aircraft Carrier that will be a real gem of their navy.
They have all the technology to build a (nuclear) AC that will be much better than that.

money.... they cant afford to build a new one.... Russian economy is as large than that of Spain not enough money left for all the big military projects... reality hit hard into the face

 

[polanski]

@monitor @Michael Corleone @The Ronin
Russia’s only carrier, damaged in shipyard accident, now on fire
A dozen injured, others reported missing in electrical fire aboard ship damaged by sinking dock.


by Sean Gallagher - Dec 13, 2019 2:13am AEDT

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MURMANSK, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 12, 2019: A fire has broken out aboard the Project 11435 aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov of the Russian Northern Fleet. Admiral Kuznetsov is the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy. Lev Fedoseyev/TASS
TASS / Lev Fedosev
The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only aircraft carrier, caught fire today during repairs in Murmansk. While officials of the shipyard said that no shipyard workers were injured, Russia's TASS news service reports that at least 12 people (likely Kuznetsov sailors) were injured, some critically. In addition, three people, possibly including the third-rank captain in charge of the ship's repairs, are unaccounted for.

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The Kuznetsov has had a long string of bad luck, experiencing fires at sea, oil spills, and landing deck accidents—including a snapped arresting wire that caused a landing Sukhoi Su-33 fighter to roll off the end of the deck and into the ocean. Its boilers belched black smoke during the ship's transit to Syria in 2016, and it had to be towed back home after breaking down during its return in 2017. Then last year, as it was undergoing repairs in a floating drydock in Murmansk's Shipyard 82, the drydock sank and a crane on the drydock slammed into the Kuznetsov, leaving a gash in the ship's hull. It looked like completion of repairs might be put off indefinitely because repair of the drydock would take over a year, and the budget for repairs had been slashed.

The fire was caused when sparks from welding work near one of the ship's electrical distribution compartments set a cable on fire. The fire spread through the wiring throughout compartments of the lower deck of the ship, eventually involving 120 square meters (1,300 square feet) of the ship's spaces.


In total, 12 victims were delivered to hospitals, 10 of them were saved during the fire. One is assessed as serious, and one suffered a head injury. Most received poisoning from combustion products, according to a report from TASS.

Shipboard firefighting, even in port, is a grim and hellish undertaking. Lack of ventilation, darkness, and the toxic smoke released by burning electrical wiring, oil, paint, and equipment make fighting fires aboard a ship particularly difficult, requiring frequent relief of those fighting the fires due to the stress and limits on breathing apparatuses. Those who have served in any navy afloat can attest to how terrifying even the thought of a mass conflagration aboard a ship is, even when pier-side.

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