![]() Big ships, including Russia’s, carry a panoply of high-tech defense systems to ward off missile, bomb, torpedo, and cyber attack. After the Moskva sank, a palpable shudder went through not just the Kremlin but also the Western naval affairs community, from the analysts to the admirals. Like darts popping a balloon, the weapons sent the paragon of the Russian navy to the bottom of the sea. But on April 14, with just two relatively low-tech, shore-launched Neptune cruise missiles, Ukrainian forces punched big holes in the side of a heavy Russian missile cruiser, Moskva, the flagship of Moscow’s Black Sea fleet. That is the indelible image of the unstoppable power packed by the great navies of the world. Few sights are more majestic, even breathtaking-and ferocious-looking-than a massive warship, gray and bristling with weapons, flanked by other equally badass vessels in a naval flotilla, bounding through the high seas.
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