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There is still ships that definitely burn in

mesoot and mesoot like substances out there.

They're all very, very old or they are very old ships that are still in use by

shipping companies that you know will flag them out of like say Liberia to escape any kind of

laws. No modern shipping company in a place that has to follow

any kind of environmental concerns or even safety concerns is still using it.

And by 1982, you're talking about like modern,

was this already kind of out of date by 1982?

It was out of date by like at least a decade.

Yeah. By time of construction it was out of date. But it

remember it's very very cheap. They have tons of it laying around and the

Soviets pretty much all use Missoupe burning engines already so they have the

expertise required to build them and it's the 80s in the Soviet Union they

don't exactly have the money, the expertise, or the materials to suddenly

start putting modern technology in the Navy.

And also the Soviet Navy was always kind of an afterthought.

So it always got like as things trickled down through the budgetary concerns of like the Ministry of Defense,

the Navy was kind of what like the U.S. Coast Guard is when they're like hoping for like catch what comes

down at the end of the tunnel there like can please can I have some copecks you know? I realize we faced out the Missute powered strategic

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