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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere are the super yachts? Looks like they are on the run!
It's likely that they will be spotted and reported before getting back to Russia, but whether anyone can stop them on the high seas is another question.
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Where are the super yachts? Looks like they are on the run! (Original Post)
Sancho
Mar 2022
OP
I wonder how much fun they can have in Russia. I mean with the economy tanking and
mucifer
Mar 2022
#4
Oligarchs ordered these yachts so they can get out of Russia, not go back there
FakeNoose
Mar 2022
#5
They can pretty much go anywhere in the world on one fuel tank. Including Russia
fescuerescue
Mar 2022
#8
WarGamer
(14,800 posts)1. Maldives!!
Eliot Rosewater
(32,374 posts)2. Arrest and seize.
SledDriver
(2,077 posts)3. Torpedoes
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)10. You know what they say, "If you can't board 'em, sink 'em"
mucifer
(24,626 posts)4. I wonder how much fun they can have in Russia. I mean with the economy tanking and
all the fancy stores shutting down.
FakeNoose
(35,184 posts)5. Oligarchs ordered these yachts so they can get out of Russia, not go back there
These things are like floating luxury hotels.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)6. Unless those super yachts can defend off an attack...
as soon as theyre spotted, theyll be taken or sunk depending on how the operators want to play it.
sanatanadharma
(4,046 posts)7. Let them keep their yachts, but deny ports and fuel
Let them drift aimlessly on the high-seas without fuel, power, food, ...
fescuerescue
(4,465 posts)8. They can pretty much go anywhere in the world on one fuel tank. Including Russia
The Dilbar for instance carries about 500,000 liters of diesel.
https://www.dmarge.com/2022/01/how-much-costs-fuel-superyacht.html
Irish_Dem
(55,825 posts)9. These were not pleasure crafts, they were escape pods.
They knew this day might come.