Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Well, really, the boilers KVG-3 type which installed on this ship, Indian Navy Vikramaditya carrier and what remains of Sovremenny-class destroyers (3 in Russia and 4 in PLAN) are awfully sensitive to a quality of the water and prone to pollute the sprayer nozzles if the fuel is worse than pure diesel. Devil in details - the materials science in USSR was the definite stepchild. Why Soviet Navy did not develop the carrier catapults? Industry was unable to create the proper plastic or rubber "sealer" preventing the steam leakages from the upper slot - that is the answer. Here too - the thick smoke from the funnels of steam-driving Russian ships is so evident now when just few of them remains while four decades ago it seemed that all Soviet Navy is still eating coal...