I think the claim is there was only 3 ferries that carry trains. You can see that the other dock isn't connected directly to the rails. Everything has to be offloaded from the train to the boat (and back again on the other side). Keep in mind Russian does not use pallets or anything similar, so that complicates things too.
As a former seafarer I feel some sympathy for those working on the vessel but as a supporter of Ukraine I can only ask ‘what the hell were you doing working on a Russian military supply ship?!!’.
1 fuel wagon 110 000 liters. Trucks depends, between 10 000 and 35 000. But these trucks are used for transport betwwen rail and units, not from rostov to units. Lesse transport, more time and beware of fpv...^^
These two small ferries don't look like rail ferries, but like conventional cargo/passenger cars. So they probably have no ferry in this area for transporting wagons.
Yes the accent is also nice, British accent are always interesting to hear. My daughters boyfriend lives in a town near the city of Nottingham and she even started to talk like him instead of the standard English we learned in school here, it sounds really nice 😊 not as monotone as standard English in school
The Conro Trader Deadweight (Carrying capacity) was 4533 tons = 129,443 US Gallons (assuming Diesel fuel) = 489,995 Litres - that is still some fire !!
@@patrickkelly6691 wrong calculations. 4500 tonns is about 5000 m3, 10 times more (yes, in metric system its much easier - 1m3=1000L of water weights 1t). In reality it carried 30 rail tanks = 1800 tonns of fuel + tanks tare
Putin likes to pretend he’s ins struggle like the Titanomachy with the power to visit the river Styx in person. He’s got all the little figurines, Cronus, Hyperion, etc. He clanks them together and goes “rah! rah!”
What's that song? Don't pay the ferry man until you get to the other side!! Looks like the ferry won't be collecting any money for the transportation of goods.
There are car ferries in the photo, and you can tell that these are using a different type of berth, without the linkspan for rail waggons. RuSSia will have plenty of boats they could use for road vehicles, not just those two shown in the port. Any old landing craft could be pressed into car ferry service. Rail ferries, on the other hand, are specialised vessels requiring an exact match between ship and shore facilities. Neither these ships nor the linkspan can be replaced easily.
The bottom pier is for railcar ferries, the upper one can only load road vehicles. The two ferries in the "before" pic look like they can only carry road vehicles, in which case they don't represent the same capacity as the railcar ferries and don't do anything that the road bridge can't currently do, so there is no harm in allowing them to continue to exist while the road bridge remains usable.
At this point in time no heavy armour can cross the bridge full stop either by road or rail So the rail ferries are needed to bring things like tanks to Crimea & other ports on the Azov sea Next problem is explosives , poo-in-the-tin is worried about a successful strike on a fuel truck or ammo truck which could bring the bridge down thus the shipment by sea So yes ammo & fuel will now come via the vehicular ferries but the capacity will be way down. Note the two ferries in the before photo were both fully loaded suggesting that there is not much in the way of spare capacity .
@@I-have-a-brain_and-use-it Hmmm, if all fuel consumed in Crimea has to arrive on those vehicular ferries then maybe it would be fun to reduce their number and force the rationing of fuel for the public.
Watching his "bad news" body language during security council meetings and recent "state visits" he knows damned well he's on borrowed time, and boy is he scared.
@@merkvandermeulen3978 If you were a betting man, would you bet on Zelensky or Putin? I know where my money would be when the Kursk offensive inevitably fails.
@@Jimmy-ye3wg Well, Putin is a betting man, betting on Kyiv in three days, but by the looks of Russia's sorry state of affairs and outlook I think I'd stick with Zelensky.
the destroyed 3 were ferries for traincarts. the othet ferries would only support cars, trucks etc. so unless they find a LOT of fueltrucks and start transferring it, twice (train to truck, other side truck to train), that fuel isn't going anywhere. also, very easy pickings
@@telebubba5527 Nah bro, Russian desire to dominate Ukraine goes way deeper, culturally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Independence_of_Ukraine Here's a poem by a Soviet dissident that fled Russia and lived in USA, won the nobel literature prize, still had the desire to fantasize about violently oppressing Ukraine when they became independent.
@@telebubba5527 As usual with megalomaniacs, he's weaved some supernatural "destiny" into his actions. I suppose some sort of coping with their own mortality.
Yeah they do seem to have more ferries, but their capacity to ship supplies over to Crimea has been significantly reduced. I wouldn't want to be on those two ferries remaining; you know they're next.
Thanks Suchomimus, an interesting report and images here. Good to see the success of those previous strikes. Results are always quite satisfying. Looking like as you said however a couple more visits from Neptune should be on the, " to do list ". I was listening for, " knackered ", as I thought this was a moment. Maybe next time! Thanks so much, and all the best, 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Glory to God, Victory for Ukraine, Rise Free Nations!
Oh sheeeeeit that is turbo'd. Getting it in port is a double win. If it was to sink there that port would be pretty much out of action for good (or close to it).
There is a lot more than 2 small vehicle ferries more like a dozen or so If you search Azov Sea ferry timetables you will see most of them listed . All of the Black sea countries run a lot of ferries Ukraine has just started running the ferry Odessa to Georgia on a daily basis
I absolutely love the comments on your videos Suchomimus... Your videos are always amazing and your subscribers are always quick to point out what we might otherwise miss due to inexperience. ✨️🇺🇦
14 railway car worth of military equipment is not a small amount. Not a small amount of fuel either. Loss of a ferry is bigger deal, but just losing that cargo is also a lot. One railway car can carry more than twice the amount of a truck, so that's ~60 truck long convoy worth of Russian things gone.
Aye! This is seriously going to hurt the Russian War effort more than most people realise. Don’t let Putinist trolls play this event down by dramatically blurting “T’is but a scratch”. No it isn’t just a scratch. It’s more of a partial frontal lobotomy for Russia, metaphorically speaking. This will not buff right out.
Assume the ferry has been sunk. That's a lot of scrap iron that's got to be moved before the dock can be used again. Never mind the damage to the harbor facilities.
Those two small ferries are automotive ferries, not super-useful for heavy resupply, but they can carry a fair amount of weight. they won't be able to fill Conro Trader's shoes though...
The other 2 ferries are car & truck ferries so have no where near the capacity of the rail ferry Plus of course the goods have to be shifted from rail cars to trucks so more handeling plus less capacity per trip and more man power required . Right now trucks & truck drivers are in short supply so more logistical nightmares for the Federation of Fear
Thats even better than I thought , but in the one clip you could hear ammo cook off , that's such a great strike for the AFU🇺🇦 lost : Dock , ship , fuel , rail cars and ammo. Glory to the brave men and women of the AFU✌🇺🇦Slava Ukraini💛Heroyam Slava💙 ❤from 🇬🇧🇨🇦
The 800 pound gorilla in the room. AFU is trying to close choke points for supplies by rail in this case. It is important to realize that every small bridge before or after the ferry or Kerch bridge is the same thing. The ferries were to embarrass putin. Destroying any trestle covering 100m would have served the same purpose & taken months for russia to repair. It just wouldn't have gotten the 'press' coverage. Or the smoke to have been seen for 100's of kilometers. Bridges are the key.
Probably a good time for the Orc land thieves that bought Crimean land after 2014 to vacate & go back home. I get a feeling the AFU has left Kerch standing for their own purposes & have no intention of dropping the road bridge. But I could be wrong.
I can't imagine either of those smaller ferries taking on rail cars. That is a special type of ship that's connecte to railway lines for loading. The others are pictured at a road loading area... much like the ferry many of us have driven onto with our cars. Since the bridge can still carry truck passage, I can't imagine the car ferry would be of any import.
The additional hardware needed for rail car ferries isn't all that complex. What could be issues in adapting an automobile ferry are the amount of buoyancy available, the strength of the ship itself (rail cars are heavy) and the clearance beneath the mid-deck bridge. Limited capacity _vis-à-vis_ the purpose-built ferries would be an issue as well.
@@alexhajnal107 If the Russians had any sense they wouldn't bother converting them. Ukraine has shown they can bypass Russias defence at will, so they would have the lifespan of a gnat. Knowing the Russians they willprobably waste their resources & time & so what you suggest though.
From the videos taken shortly after the strike, along with the fires caused by the fuel tanks it looked and sounded like small arms and artillery ammunition cooking off.
Shared your video as asual. Got one comment Martin Hedington (Ex navy) : Dude, a ships sharp end is not a bow as in bow and arrow, it’s a bow as in bow ... wow.
That was the last train ferry, the other two look to be road vehicle setups. Russian trucking is in miserable shape, they're quite dependent on rail. Breaking the ability to move rolling stock across the strait is a BIG deal.
One interesting fact, we know the rail line on the Kerch Bridge was damaged. But we don't really know how much. Apparently enough damage that he can't handle 20 railcars of fuel.
That rail ferry was hit just in the right place and produced the perfect outcome The port is basically out of action for rail freight for the foreseeable future even if they can get one of the other rail ferries operational
CONRO was originally a RORO (Roll-on Roll-off-vehicles), converted to rail at some point. The other two ships are ROROs. NOTE: it is strange that Russia does not use barges-tank trucks and RR cars are so ineffecient-even a small barge (US) carries 1 million gallons-tank cars carry in the range of 20,000 gallons
@@richardschipper5989 Richard there is what is physically possible & what is practically / commercially possible . If you consider taking a hour to load each rail car over a loading ramp that is 20 metres or more longer then there is a possibility . If you consider crossing the Azov sear with only 6 to 10 rail cars on each ferry then yes it is possible One fully loaded rail car is near enough to 5 fully loaded trucks . The ferry has to have Ballast tanks in the right positions and pumps fast enough to counter the weight of each & every rail car as they are loaded / unloaded plus be able to prevent a roll over when sailing across a swell The car/ truck ferries do not have this . Then there is the deck support itself Three of the limiting factors are buoyancy, draught & ballast Then there is the sectional strength of the deck itself . The axel loadings of trucks are no where near those of rail cars . Finally there is the load density . Trucks all have engines which are much lighter than the payload so the distributed load per square metre on a truck ferry deck is way lower than a rail ferry . If you think it can be done I suggest you search for reports on ferry capsizes and see just how sensitive they are to weight distribution and how dynamic ballast compensation has to be . So to covert a truck ferry to a rail ferry, the old ballast tanks have to be removed,& be replaced with new tanks & higher volume pumps and that is getting very close to a full rebuild
Another source says two crew missing. This was the last _rail_ ferry, which significantly complicates russia's logistics, as fuel will now have to be transferred from rail to road tankers & we know well what happens to fuel depots capable of doing this...
The two other ferries are car ferries, I think the "three ferries" was just referring to the rail ferries, which are now all gone. Russia has no way to get heavy rail cars across the straight to Crimea now.
I think the claim is there was only 3 ferries that carry trains. You can see that the other dock isn't connected directly to the rails. Everything has to be offloaded from the train to the boat (and back again on the other side). Keep in mind Russian does not use pallets or anything similar, so that complicates things too.
Why do they not use pallets ?😂
@@paulreynolds7103Western capitalist, running dog, devil invention. 😂
@@paulreynolds7103because "manly men don't need fancy decadent western pallets and woke forklifts. Manly men carry crates with their bare hands."
Correct, only three could take rail cars.
The two ferries in the first picture are RORO - roll on roll off - for any vehicle except trains in this case.
I heard it here first.
This channel is a really excellent source, as far as I am concerned.
The Conro looks like a burnt pork chop - one more for the Greatest Hits album!
hey, that's a great name for a new ferry! Pork Chop!
Imagine working on one of those ferries ..knowing you are doomed !
Or someone trying to install a pontoon bridge in Kursk.
As a former seafarer I feel some sympathy for those working on the vessel but as a supporter of Ukraine I can only ask ‘what the hell were you doing working on a Russian military supply ship?!!’.
After seeing the things Russia has done to civilians its a bit hard to find any sympathy for them. Everyone else has a choice, Ukraine doesn't
Well, wtf are they working for the russians?
Civilian targets?
Railway ferries for fuel are no more. That’s the importance of these strikes. I am sure Russia has plenty of ferries.
They sank a load as blockships to protect the soon to be demolished kerch bridge, so less to be sunk now
Is closed sea and needs specialised ferryies
They have plenty of fairies in russia with putin being queen of them all, just call her Tinkerbell.
You couldn't be more wrong, especially in this location.
@@edwardfletcher7790 wrong about what?
I'm pretty sure it was only 3 train ferries they were talking about not including vehicle ferries
Vehicle ferries would need to be fuel trucks, way less capacity per space required.
@@sirsmeal3192 Then there's the fuel depots with the facility to transfer fuel from rail to road.
Or rather there aren't...🔥
1 fuel wagon 110 000 liters. Trucks depends, between 10 000 and 35 000. But these trucks are used for transport betwwen rail and units, not from rostov to units. Lesse transport, more time and beware of fpv...^^
@@Carna-rd2uw
Stretch those logistics!
No logistic no win. Russia was at is maximium capacity to logistic by 2022.... @@sirsmeal3192
These two small ferries don't look like rail ferries, but like conventional cargo/passenger cars. So they probably have no ferry in this area for transporting wagons.
Yep, docked where the road terminates.
I like this British bedtime story accent narration of Russian failures.
Yes the accent is also nice, British accent are always interesting to hear. My daughters boyfriend lives in a town near the city of Nottingham and she even started to talk like him instead of the standard English we learned in school here, it sounds really nice 😊 not as monotone as standard English in school
nothing lulls me to dreamland better than this...
british accent pronouncing russian names youtube translator goes crazy
The US version of a railway tank car carries 30,000 US gallons or 114,000 litres EACH.
So 14 of them is almost 1.6 MILLION litres 😮
Standard Russian railway tank (cistern) is 60t capacity as universal permitted axle load is 25t. 120t tanks (4 bogies, 8 axles) exist but very rare.
The Conro Trader Deadweight (Carrying capacity) was 4533 tons = 129,443 US Gallons (assuming Diesel fuel) = 489,995 Litres - that is still some fire !!
@@patrickkelly6691 wrong calculations. 4500 tonns is about 5000 m3, 10 times more (yes, in metric system its much easier - 1m3=1000L of water weights 1t). In reality it carried 30 rail tanks = 1800 tonns of fuel + tanks tare
@@patrickkelly6691 your math is wrong. 130,000 gal of diesel weighs 413t, about 314 gal per mt
Can't we end this discussion by agreeing that the US should switch to the metric system?
Those vehicles really give the scale to the size of that ship
Ferries morph into submarines, that can stay underwater forever.
Very interesting, looks like the port is also out of order for a very long time!
A bad day to be a ferryman, maybe they will now be working the Styx
Putin likes to pretend he’s ins struggle like the Titanomachy with the power to visit the river Styx in person. He’s got all the little figurines, Cronus, Hyperion, etc. He clanks them together and goes “rah! rah!”
What's that song? Don't pay the ferry man until you get to the other side!! Looks like the ferry won't be collecting any money for the transportation of goods.
but... but "ruZZian sources" say they were all evacuated on time, didn't you hear??! 😥😥
With pennies on their eyes and baying hounds of hell.
@@jamesdeery5377 Chris De Burgh. Fantastic song!
There are car ferries in the photo, and you can tell that these are using a different type of berth, without the linkspan for rail waggons. RuSSia will have plenty of boats they could use for road vehicles, not just those two shown in the port. Any old landing craft could be pressed into car ferry service. Rail ferries, on the other hand, are specialised vessels requiring an exact match between ship and shore facilities. Neither these ships nor the linkspan can be replaced easily.
The bottom pier is for railcar ferries, the upper one can only load road vehicles. The two ferries in the "before" pic look like they can only carry road vehicles, in which case they don't represent the same capacity as the railcar ferries and don't do anything that the road bridge can't currently do, so there is no harm in allowing them to continue to exist while the road bridge remains usable.
Just make sure that people using them keep extremely nervous until they get far away from them.
At this point in time no heavy armour can cross the bridge full stop either by road or rail
So the rail ferries are needed to bring things like tanks to Crimea & other ports on the Azov sea
Next problem is explosives , poo-in-the-tin is worried about a successful strike on a fuel truck or ammo truck which could bring the bridge down thus the shipment by sea
So yes ammo & fuel will now come via the vehicular ferries but the capacity will be way down.
Note the two ferries in the before photo were both fully loaded suggesting that there is not much in the way of spare capacity .
@@I-have-a-brain_and-use-it Hmmm, if all fuel consumed in Crimea has to arrive on those vehicular ferries then maybe it would be fun to reduce their number and force the rationing of fuel for the public.
@@moblet we live in hope
@@mobletdiesel fuel for military, very little gasoline (= bensin)
Just wait until the top fairy, Vladimir Vladimirovich, is taken out.
Watching his "bad news" body language during security council meetings and recent "state visits" he knows damned well he's on borrowed time, and boy is he scared.
It's rumoured that Ukraine planned it, and was warned by the United States not to go there, as a tactical nuclear response was the likely outcome.
@@merkvandermeulen3978 If you were a betting man, would you bet on Zelensky or Putin? I know where my money would be when the Kursk offensive inevitably fails.
@@Jimmy-ye3wg; 5/30/2024. Newby Trollski. Trying to spin the disaster in Kurch.
@@Jimmy-ye3wg Well, Putin is a betting man, betting on Kyiv in three days, but by the looks of Russia's sorry state of affairs and outlook I think I'd stick with Zelensky.
Short but sweet ❤
Thank you 💪💪🇺🇦💪💪💙💛💙💛
Thank you good sir. A nice way to start my Saturday morning.
Thank you for the update.
the destroyed 3 were ferries for traincarts. the othet ferries would only support cars, trucks etc.
so unless they find a LOT of fueltrucks and start transferring it, twice (train to truck, other side truck to train), that fuel isn't going anywhere. also, very easy pickings
Putler’s ego is a bottomless pit.
This is the problem. And he's augmented it with mysticism 🧙🏽♂
@@DougguoD Nah, that's just old fashioned style KGB propaganda. Nothing mystic about it.
@@telebubba5527
Nah bro, Russian desire to dominate Ukraine goes way deeper, culturally.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Independence_of_Ukraine
Here's a poem by a Soviet dissident that fled Russia and lived in USA, won the nobel literature prize, still had the desire to fantasize about violently oppressing Ukraine when they became independent.
Not quite bottomless, more like an uncovered Septic Tank......
@@telebubba5527 As usual with megalomaniacs, he's weaved some supernatural "destiny" into his actions. I suppose some sort of coping with their own mortality.
Yeah they do seem to have more ferries, but their capacity to ship supplies over to Crimea has been significantly reduced. I wouldn't want to be on those two ferries remaining; you know they're next.
Looks like it had a wooden top deck on other videos. Wooden deck + burning oil = crispy bbq ship.
Thanks Suchomimus, an interesting report and images here. Good to see the success of those previous strikes.
Results are always quite satisfying. Looking like as you said however a couple more visits from Neptune should be on the, " to do list ".
I was listening for, " knackered ", as I thought this was a moment. Maybe next time!
Thanks so much, and all the best,
🇺🇲🇺🇦
Glory to God,
Victory for Ukraine,
Rise Free Nations!
Oh sheeeeeit that is turbo'd. Getting it in port is a double win. If it was to sink there that port would be pretty much out of action for good (or close to it).
Crew of those ships must be shitting themselves
Sucho did say they evacuated, I mean WERE evacuated...
@@davidzachmeyer1957🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣……🥹🥹🥹🥹…….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏾
Thanks for the update !
Thanks for the update. Only 2 smaller ferries left now then. If I was working on one of those ferries I'd take out my annual leave ASAP.
There is a lot more than 2 small vehicle ferries more like a dozen or so
If you search Azov Sea ferry timetables you will see most of them listed .
All of the Black sea countries run a lot of ferries
Ukraine has just started running the ferry Odessa to Georgia on a daily basis
Ty for the update
The fire burned for FORTY MINUTES before the tanks and ammo went up? The crew bailed. Everybody bailed.
I absolutely love the comments on your videos Suchomimus... Your videos are always amazing and your subscribers are always quick to point out what we might otherwise miss due to inexperience. ✨️🇺🇦
14 railway car worth of military equipment is not a small amount. Not a small amount of fuel either. Loss of a ferry is bigger deal, but just losing that cargo is also a lot. One railway car can carry more than twice the amount of a truck, so that's ~60 truck long convoy worth of Russian things gone.
Aye! This is seriously going to hurt the Russian War effort more than most people realise. Don’t let Putinist trolls play this event down by dramatically blurting “T’is but a scratch”. No it isn’t just a scratch. It’s more of a partial frontal lobotomy for Russia, metaphorically speaking. This will not buff right out.
Thanks Suchomimus for the report and Slava Ukraine!!!!
💛Heroyam Slava💙✌🇺🇦
Assume the ferry has been sunk. That's a lot of scrap iron that's got to be moved before the dock can be used again. Never mind the damage to the harbor facilities.
Moskva can carry fuel and missiles. It was a sneaky Russian plan to transfer it to the submarine fleet.
The bridge is next.
Those two small ferries are automotive ferries, not super-useful for heavy resupply, but they can carry a fair amount of weight. they won't be able to fill Conro Trader's shoes though...
Thank you fotr ghe news update!
Very interesting and great news for the free world. Cheers
Dont pay the ferryman - until he gets you to the other side...
But do fear the reaper......
Thank you Suchomimus
Thanks for your good analyses!
Thanks, Jack! Very enlightening.
Thank you, Suchomimus, for your update on the Conro joining the BS underwater fleet. Nice.
🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
the two other ferries are truck/car carriers; importantly the rail ferries are both gone
Happy Independence day to the ukrainian nation ; nothing beats the idea of a nation !
The other 2 ferries are car & truck ferries so have no where near the capacity of the rail ferry
Plus of course the goods have to be shifted from rail cars to trucks so more handeling plus less capacity per trip and more man power required .
Right now trucks & truck drivers are in short supply so more logistical nightmares for the Federation of Fear
Thanks Sucho. Slava Ukraini
💛Heroyam Slava💙✌🇺🇦
Thanks for the update. Always glad to hear from you.
Yeah, I wish the crew were THAT fast !
Thats even better than I thought , but in the one clip you could hear ammo cook off , that's such a great strike for the AFU🇺🇦 lost : Dock , ship , fuel , rail cars and ammo.
Glory to the brave men and women of the AFU✌🇺🇦Slava Ukraini💛Heroyam Slava💙 ❤from 🇬🇧🇨🇦
The 800 pound gorilla in the room. AFU is trying to close choke points for supplies by rail in this case. It is important to realize that every small bridge before or after the ferry or Kerch bridge is the same thing. The ferries were to embarrass putin. Destroying any trestle covering 100m would have served the same purpose & taken months for russia to repair. It just wouldn't have gotten the 'press' coverage. Or the smoke to have been seen for 100's of kilometers. Bridges are the key.
A good railroad crew can lay 6 miles of track per day.
@@somaday2595which makes the railroad crews a viable target 🤔
the crimean railway bridge is still out of use so this strike on the railway ferry is smart
Smaller ferries are for cars and trucks, buses, etc. There are a number of those available. But big one, the railroad ferries, there were only 3-4
Probably a good time for the Orc land thieves that bought Crimean land after 2014 to vacate & go back home. I get a feeling the AFU has left Kerch standing for their own purposes & have no intention of dropping the road bridge. But I could be wrong.
The final Ukranian warning to evacuate Crimea before the Big One will be followed in 48 hrs by the bridge being brought down
those 2 smaller do not seem be for train carriages, but for trucks.
I can't imagine either of those smaller ferries taking on rail cars. That is a special type of ship that's connecte to railway lines for loading. The others are pictured at a road loading area... much like the ferry many of us have driven onto with our cars. Since the bridge can still carry truck passage, I can't imagine the car ferry would be of any import.
The additional hardware needed for rail car ferries isn't all that complex. What could be issues in adapting an automobile ferry are the amount of buoyancy available, the strength of the ship itself (rail cars are heavy) and the clearance beneath the mid-deck bridge. Limited capacity _vis-à-vis_ the purpose-built ferries would be an issue as well.
@@alexhajnal107 If the Russians had any sense they wouldn't bother converting them. Ukraine has shown they can bypass Russias defence at will, so they would have the lifespan of a gnat. Knowing the Russians they willprobably waste their resources & time & so what you suggest though.
Needs to be said that the Kerch bridge can still take fuel cars and military gear if you half load each car. The restrictions were for full cars.
From the videos taken shortly after the strike, along with the fires caused by the fuel tanks it looked and sounded like small arms and artillery ammunition cooking off.
Thank you!
This ferry will never cross the Mersey.
Excellent Job!
Fantastic thanks again
Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix aprice....
Brilliant video thank you for the information provided glory to Ukraine slava Ukraine pryvit keep smiling and be happy
Shared your video as asual. Got one comment
Martin Hedington (Ex navy) : Dude, a ships sharp end is not a bow as in bow and arrow, it’s a bow as in bow ... wow.
An obvious knuckle-dragger. Either from the West or russia. It happens . . .
There were only three railroad-capable ferries. The two extraneous ferries can't carry railraod cars, maybe.
Thanks Sucho 👍👍👍😅🌻🕶️
That was the last train ferry, the other two look to be road vehicle setups. Russian trucking is in miserable shape, they're quite dependent on rail. Breaking the ability to move rolling stock across the strait is a BIG deal.
Another great video cheers
Great updates as always, thank you, 💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪
'A man without a ferry cannot move military supplies with any haste' - Sun Tzu
One interesting fact, we know the rail line on the Kerch Bridge was damaged. But we don't really know how much. Apparently enough damage that he can't handle 20 railcars of fuel.
That is an ex ferry, not a doubt.
Pining for the fjords...
🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
That rail ferry was hit just in the right place and produced the perfect outcome
The port is basically out of action for rail freight for the foreseeable future even if they can get one of the other rail ferries operational
The two new ferries look to be car/truck ro-ros: Conro Trader and the Slavyavin were train ferries, thereby supplanting the damaged Kerch Bridge.
Thanks. 😊😊😊😊
Almost looks like it’s had a bite out of it. That’s some serious damage.
CONRO was originally a RORO (Roll-on Roll-off-vehicles), converted to rail at some point. The other two ships are ROROs. NOTE: it is strange that Russia does not use barges-tank trucks and RR cars are so ineffecient-even a small barge (US) carries 1 million gallons-tank cars carry in the range of 20,000 gallons
Dont pay the ferry men until he get's you on the other side .
Those are road ferries. They can be converted, but it'll take time, and they are much smaller.
No they can not .
There is a lot more to it than most would understand
For the ferries to link up to the rail lines they have to be purpose built
@@I-have-a-brain_and-use-it no, they 'could' be modified. not easy but do able
@@richardschipper5989 Richard there is what is physically possible & what is practically / commercially possible .
If you consider taking a hour to load each rail car over a loading ramp that is 20 metres or more longer then there is a possibility .
If you consider crossing the Azov sear with only 6 to 10 rail cars on each ferry then yes it is possible
One fully loaded rail car is near enough to 5 fully loaded trucks .
The ferry has to have Ballast tanks in the right positions and pumps fast enough to counter the weight of each & every rail car as they are loaded / unloaded plus be able to prevent a roll over when sailing across a swell
The car/ truck ferries do not have this .
Then there is the deck support itself
Three of the limiting factors are buoyancy, draught & ballast
Then there is the sectional strength of the deck itself .
The axel loadings of trucks are no where near those of rail cars .
Finally there is the load density .
Trucks all have engines which are much lighter than the payload so the distributed load per square metre on a truck ferry deck is way lower than a rail ferry .
If you think it can be done I suggest you search for reports on ferry capsizes and see just how sensitive they are to weight distribution and how dynamic ballast compensation has to be .
So to covert a truck ferry to a rail ferry, the old ballast tanks have to be removed,& be replaced with new tanks & higher volume pumps and that is getting very close to a full rebuild
The two ferries in the first picture look like they only carry trucks and other road vehicles, not railway cars like the Conro Trader.
they should have done a tunnel under the sea instead of a bridge 🙂but when you want to show off...
Another source says two crew missing.
This was the last _rail_ ferry, which significantly complicates russia's logistics, as fuel will now have to be transferred from rail to road tankers & we know well what happens to fuel depots capable of doing this...
Hopefully they just thought better than reporting back for duty to become crew on another ferry / Neptune magnet.
Imagine being drunk everyday. The soviet way
A Jolly Roger got rogered! 🙂
Roger, roger! 😊
Thanks for the info 👍
Well, that ship is properly buggered.
Putin, “ nothing to see here, everything is ok.”
One new submarine added to the Black Sea Fleet and two potential future candidates brought in.
2nd hand smoking kills
The two ferries on the before-image are probably for cars only (not for trains).
The two other ferries are car ferries, I think the "three ferries" was just referring to the rail ferries, which are now all gone. Russia has no way to get heavy rail cars across the straight to Crimea now.
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Looks like it can be fixed. Just some good old Russian elbow grease.
I believe they have 3 RAIL ferries. The two at the top are car/truck ferries. Not as useful for moving same amount of fuel.
Winter is coming and where’s the fuel!?
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