I found this ship in the Black Sea in the direction of the Bosporus strait. To me, it looks like a carrier. To Dalyo, it looks like a funni looking cargo ship. I cant get a higher quality image cuz this is google maps, so yeah.
I found this ship in the Black Sea in the direction of the Bosporus strait. To me, it looks like a carrier. To Dalyo, it looks like a funni looking cargo ship. I cant get a higher quality image cuz this is google maps, so yeah.
@FlirBlitz Things like this get the autism tag.
Not necessarily a bad thing, but that's what it'd get. Or at least, that's what my time on NonCredibleDefense has taught me.
@Graingy what
@FlirBlitz Autism
@Graingy discussion needs to be a tag
... is thread even the right term?
Comment section?
Discussion?
idk
I swear this thread is as obsessive as the average NCD discussion
Yeah, it definitely looks like a Carrier, but it's the lack of visible escorts that puts me off the Carrier idea.
@DeutscheLufthansaAG huh, yeah i think its a cargo ship
its a pixel
Looks like a carrier to me
It's a cargo ship
Yacht speedboat cruise ship or a cargo if you look at street view
@FeatherWing
41°14'38.5"N 29°08'18.9"E
thats that Google gives me
What's the coordinates?
@FlirBlitz Yeah, dunno what might be going on. Without a specific date for the image it's hard to say. The USS George H. W. Bush was last reported 5 days ago off Italy, but there's no telling where it might have been before that (at least, not from publicly available data).
The Bush is really the only carrier that it could be though, since there's literally no other operational (cough cough Kuznetzov cough cough) carriers in that part of the world (other than the Turkish TCG Anadolu, which doesn't have the same deck profile).
It seems we have more questions than answers here. Maybe there'll be something in the news in a few weeks, but I doubt it.
@HuskyDynamics01 Yeah i dont think the US navy would deploy a carrier into what is kinda still a warzone considering the russians control Crimea. But since this is russia, they can barely keep their tanks in working condition.
they literally are getting T-62s out of storage lmao
@Graingy I really dont know, from what i can tell they were taken in 2023 but im not sure.
@HuskyDynamics01 Perhaps the photos were taken at different times?
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Kinda wonder if anyone ever did a version of google maps, but colour coded by the age of the photos...
looks like a very fuzzy [REDACTED] stain to me, chief
Definitely looks like a carrier with the way the upper deck is shaped. Interestingly, though it's visible in both Google Maps and Google Earth, it is not visible on Apple Maps or other publicly available software (that I've seen, anyway). Which carrier, though, is a bit of a mystery, since none of the Black Sea navies have a carrier with that profile and the US Navy's task group is supposed to be in the Mediterranean.
Here's the Google Maps coords for anyone who wants to take a look themselves.