re: #88 Jay C

OK: since LGF is as good (and likely) a place to find out things on the Internet: do you know (or can provide a link to) exactly WTH is wrong with the Admiral Kuznetzov? Wiki merely states that its propulsion system is run by four “gas-fired boilers”: but is it normal that a “gas-fired” system would emit clouds of black smoke like some Great War dreadnought?

I mean, Kuznetzov was, reputedly, built to the usual standards of Soviet-era engineering (i.e. one short step up from junk), but that black cloud doesn’t seem normal anywise….

That Russian carrier does not go anywhere w/o a fleet of tugboats to tow it when the engines are down.Which is often.