Russian Navy "On Verge of Collapse"

And here's another. Makes it sound like the answer to the title question may actually be "yes" at this point at least as any sort of major player:
Winning: The Russian Navy Suffers Heavy Losses

 

This one is a bit more up beat:
Surface Forces: Small Treasures
At least for the coastal aspect.

 

Another strategy page article. One of the more pessimistic ones I've seen with regards to the capability of the Russian Navy.
Russia: Full Time Faking It

 

He hasn't posted in a while but it's worth reflecting on the comments from one of our members early in this thread:

 

Another report that makes things sound even worse. In brief Russia has gone to one year terms for conscripts. That means a lot of poorly trained sailors and a lot of turn over. See:
Attrition: Russia Losses Its Edge
On another board it was mentioned that they are scrapping a number of major vessels.

 

Another update focuses on the scrapping of the Kirovs.
Surface Forces: Killing The Kirovs To Save The Fleet
Looks like some of the leadership are hoping for a controlled and limited collapse rather than a complete one.

 

Russians never seem to have much luck with ships and the sea.

 

I do remember that John Paul Jones served in their navy for a while. Haven't read much about what was happening there then though. A fair number of their ships spent a good part of the ACW in New York harbor as well. At least that showed that they were capable of operating across the breadth of the Atlantic at the time. Then there's always the famous battle on the lake but the Russian force there was mostly infantry.

 

Poor old Kuznetsov had another fire:

Death toll in aircraft carrier fire in Russia rises to 2

 

yup. read about this... not long ago- something about the "new weapons".
was there some kind of accident recently, where a whole town had to be evacuated?
were they using nuclear powered missiles...don't know, just asking.
pardon me.

 

New details on Russia's mysterious missile disaster suggest a nuclear reactor blew up

As usual the Soviets Russians are not very forthcoming.

 

Their most famous ships are the Potemkin which had a mutiny and the Aurora which kicked off a revolution by firing on her own government. No Victory or Old Ironsides