Wrong place, insufficient ability or arrogance?

On 15 April, Russia was forced to admit that the missile cruiser "Moskva" had sunk while being towed back to port. The Russian and Ukrainian versions differed, marine forum reported. Will this have consequences for the way naval forces operate and the risks they take? The last time a ship of comparable size to the Moskva was sunk by a hostile force was in 1982, when the Argentinian light cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed by the Royal Navy submarine Conqueror during the ten-day Falklands War. However, this is hardly comparable, as the submarine torpedoed an obsolete former American cruiser from the 1930s.

So how did the ship fare? The construction of the "Moskva" was problematic, says Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute and retired captain. He suspects that