Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Ukrainian officials say missiles hit Russia warship" video.

90% it was an accident or malfunction. 10% missile hit. One has to remember recently a large US helicopter carrier burned down. Before that few years ago, a US submarine burned down. Very recently Iranian ship burned down. And none of these were in combat. We see once its in port - it should be rather clear if it was a missile or just simply internal explosion. Ship is out of action for at least a month or more. Its old, may not even get fixed if its too damaged. Ship only used its main guns to shell shore, it does not have kalibr missiles that are actually used to precision hit UA targets.
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But the truth may be simply an accident.
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Nah, its main missiles are anti-ship. It did not fire any.
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@jamesdavid311 Could be AA missile exploding in the tube or similar accident. It does happen. Or it leaves the tube but buster does not ignite, it falls onto the ship, explodes, ignites nearby system, which also explodes and causes huge fire. The fire could not be that big through as it was put out - US had a fire on their helicopter carrier, in port and failed to put it out. Whole ship went to scrap.
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Yeah, now you wonder, why they did not fire more missiles to sink it? Range is 250km, so not an issue. Maybe b/c there were no missiles in the first place?
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@The31stcenturyfox If they were scared of missiles they would not be at sea at all. Missiles have long range, 250km. Say this is max, so actual combat danger zone with radar is say 100km. Ship was well within that, between 60-80km away. So they do not seem to be that afraid of these missiles. Far more likely is a) they were taking out a TB2 drone (as stated) and one of the missiles mis-fired, exploded and detonated all other missiles in the system causing a fire. b) they hit one of these floating mines. c) some other accident with ammo handling. d) friendly fire - one of the escorts was firing on something and hit cruiser causing explosion. Russian reporting is quite reliable when compared to Ukrainian. Besides we see the ship in port to be sure. I say chances of actual missile hit are at most 10%. What "retaliatory fire" by whom? These are ships not aircraft that have such capability. What "saturation" fire - if there was one, and they fired all they got, they would have shown us a video of all these missiles going off. They fired all their missiles and did not take PR video? LOL!
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@CB-wq9wp Lots of reasons - how did fires start on a large US helicopter carrier like 2 years ago?
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Most UA claims are false, like 90%. Multiple US ships were on fire in last few years. Yet, no one remembers. And this was not due to being in a war zone.
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