Russians build mock-up instead of sunken Rostov-on-Don submarine - Defense Express

In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, the russian invaders built a 56-meter wooden mock-up instead of the Rostov-on-Don submarine sunk by the Defense Forces.

This was reported by the Defense Express portal with reference to satellite images published by OSINT analyst MT_Anderson.

Thus, it is reported that on satellite images of the water area of the base of the Black Sea Fleet of the aggressor country of the russian federation in Sevastopol, several specific things were recorded at once. The most notable of them is how the russian occupiers tried to disguise the sinking of the Rostov-on-Don submarine. As can be seen from the images, the russians simply built a wooden mock-up of the submarine.

Photo: X/MT_Anderson

"The quality of the production of this mock-up speaks for itself, if its fakeness can literally be seen from space. And here it is enough to say that the russians, to put it mildly, did not complete the details to give this mock-up at least some semblance of realism," the portal's journalists write.

They emphasize that even on a satellite image it is clearly visible that the hull length of this mock-up is only 56 meters, while the hull length of the project 636.6 submarine (to which the sunken Rostov-on-Don belonged) is 73.8 meters.

If we compare it with the length of the hull of project 877 submarines, to which the submarine Alrosa from the Black Sea Fleet of the russian federation belongs (its status is not completely clear at the moment), then there is also a "misalignment", because here we are talking about an indicator of 72.6 meters.

Photo: X/MT_Anderson

Journalists also note that it is also interesting how the russian occupiers decided to disguise the place where the sunken Rostov-on-Don submarine lies.

"They decided to simply cover with a tarpaulin the place where this submarine went to the bottom after being hit by missile weapons of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Perhaps they hoped in this way to create the impression that this submarine is still being repaired.
Of course, it is hardly possible to repair a sunken ship like that. But this all at the same time illustrates that the russians are not even trying to raise Rostov-on-Don from the bottom of the water area of temporarily occupied Sevastopol, because they do not have the appropriate technical capabilities for this," the portal's journalists emphasized.

As Ukrainian News Agency reported, earlier British intelligence assessed the significance of the defeat by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Rostov-on-Don submarine.

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