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Another accident comes to mind - sub-specced metal used for steam pipes on the nuclear cruiser Peter the Great. The pipe ruptured, 5 killed. After years of dela
by trhway 5y ago
Another accident comes to mind - sub-specced metal used for steam pipes on the nuclear cruiser Peter the Great. The pipe ruptured, 5 killed. After years of delays during the last years of USSR and the economic collapse of the beginning of 199x, the cruiser was rushed to get launched for the 300 years of the Russian Navy celebration deadline.
- mcswell 5y agoI looked at the Wikipedia article on that ship, and several other articles, and could find no mention of that. Are you sure it wasn't the Kirov?
- trhway 5y agohttps://lenta.ru/articles/2004/03/24/petr/ https://lenta.ru/articles/2004/03/24/petr/ or https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/242286 https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/242286 (that being right at the time reports 4 dead, 2 heavy injured) and it wasn't the only mishap, though the deadliest.
- mcswell 5y agoAh, no wonder I couldn't find it--it's in Russian. Thank goodness for machine translation, and thank you for the links!
- aaron695 5y agoYou were looking at the wrong Wikipedia https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%91%D1%82%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_(%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%91%D1%82%D1%80_%D0%9...