Loss of Baltic Control: Russia intends to create a fleet on Ladoga Lake

Experts believe that the Russian command can deploy small rocket ships of "Buyan-M" and "Karakurt" with "caliber" on board. In response to NATO expansion in the Baltic, Russia intends to send part of the Baltic Fleet to Ladoga Lake. Moreover, Ladoga Lake can potentially be transformed into a starting ground for small rocket ships of the Russian Federation. The possible further plans of the Russian Navy command are referred to in Bulgarian Military of October 23.

Referring to data from Russian sources, observers write that recently the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has continuously carried out difficult research work to determine the possibility of fighting in these waters. As a result, the Russian command allegedly concluded that the Ladoga lake could effectively operate a grouping of small missile ships. "According to experts, such a step would serve as an adequate opposition to NATO's expansion to the northwest.

It is expected that small ships will be able to effectively control actions in Finland, Sweden and Estonia," the authors of the publication said. Russian military historian Dmitry Boltenkov gives an example of World War II, during which Ladoga served as a point of base forces. Now, he believes, there can be deployed ships of small missile ships of the project 21631 "Buyan-M", as well as carriers of "caliber" ships of the class "Karakurt".

It should be noted that Ladoga lake has an area of ​​17 700 square meters. km without the islands. From north to south, it stretched 219 km, the average width reaches 83 km, the average depth is 47 m, and in some places the northwestern part reaches 230 m. Thus, the base on the Ladosa of modern rocket carriers looks quite advisable in the context of military-technical Responses to NATO expansion, experts said.