Really? Come, we surely can disagree on so much, but to claim, this is repairable is far from anything realistic. Even if the inner hull is not broken - what I cannot imagine - it is so much damaged that repairing it is either not possible or economical doable.
IMO this is just a wreck.
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Except that there is no fire marks on the ballast holes. Which means the explosion did not spread to the other compartments and ballast tanks. I already saw those pics, hence my observation that the inner hull --- which is one huge thick metal cylinder of very high tensile strength steel which will put a battleship's to shame --- wasn't breached. The explosion was directed outward into the neighboring areas, rather than the sub itself. Note the sail itself is intact which is also a good indicator of the blast direction.
I have seen ships that are in worst condition that are repaired. This is done by removing damaged sections and replacing it with new ones. As far as cases go, this one is already a leg up, since it's already on the dock and not on the water. I'm referring to ships that are already sunk in shallow water and recovered, restored and put back into active service. Literally battleships that were considered sunk in Pearl Harbor.
Cope tires on Su-34 to protect against hollow charges and kinetic energy penetrators.
Probably in the stern the damage is not so serious, but the impact on the bow was an almost perfect impact for the type of attacking missile (the precision is notable), probably affecting the entire weapons launch system.
The Russians are so incompetent that they cannot prevent images of the damage from being leaked, now the propaganda cannot support the version that the submarine suffered minimal damage.... it is evident that both ships have considerable damage, and perhaps the repairs are as expensive like buying new ships....
There's a US nuclear sub that rammed it's bow into an underwater mountain, totally crushing the bow completely, the collision happening with the sub at full speed. Still limped home and years later, it had a new bow that was transplanted on it. The captain however have to change his career.
The submarine bow itself is a composite shaped cone for the sonar system with tubes for the torpedoes. The bow itself is not part of the inner or pressurized hull even on single hull submarines, much less double hulled. It's not even metal for these sort of teardrop shaped submarines, much like the way the front dome of an aircraft or missile isn't. It's mainly composite to allow for the sonar/sound waves to go through. The worst thing that will happen is you wrecked the front sonar array which itself is a hugely expensive part, but still replaceable.
You can build a new bow with a new bulbous sonar array somewhere else and reattach it to the front of the inner pressure hull.
Repairing a submarine is not as expensive as making a new one because a huge part of the cost comes from bending and forming that inner pressurized hull that's shaped like a cylinder. Because of this steel --- disposing the submarine to scrap --- can be just as expensive which is why there are so many dead submarines still laying around persistently. It is very difficult and very time costly to cut up and recycle this pressurized steel hull. For that matter it's also very expensive and time costly to make, press, form and weld one of these hulls. So the cost equation is mostly to favor restoring it sometime in the future as this is the middle ground. They aren't going to do it now or they are in a hurry to do, so they will leave the sub in the dock for the duration of the war.
