Political infighting.
CO of Petr Veliky is the nephew of one of Kuroyedov's biggest critics. Our
good admiral is just firing back. Also, PV is flag ship of the Northern
Fleet, one of the newest combatants and "shop window" ship. Criticizing it
is a sure way to get attention - as we have witnessed today.

It's unlikely that PV is any more likely to "blow up" than any other ship in
the Russian fleet. Basically admiral is unhappy with state of the fleet
(probably for good reason) and wants attention brought to it.

What a difference a little time makes. At one time, Petr and his brothers used
to be in my dreams - I wrote a collection of short stories that got passed
around the air dets on other frigates about a post-wwIII scenario where most of
the people of our planet died, and the few exceptions were people on ships out
at sea when the war happened. PV was the wild card - a 'free ship' that sank
all over warships on sight.

We'd sit around the table in the forward berthing compartment on our puny
little warship and brainstorm ways of striking a Kirov - didn't take much brain
power to figure out we would just be chunks stuck in Petr's teeth if we ever
got in its way.

The Kirovs were magnificent ships and I hope that they keep them around in
museums after the are retired. For their era, they were really something.

v/r
Gordon
PS, I agree - I doubt if his material condition would be bad enough to make it
blow up, any more so than any other boat.