Russian ships flee to the Caspian: what happens to the bleeding Black Sea Fleet
The military enlightener Alexander Kovalenko has no doubt that this is only the beginning - because in the Black Sea Russian sailors are clearly doing nothing in 2023, August 4, I, knowing that I am reading Russian propagandists and so -called "military", wrote a short post with simple post The sentence is a statement of fact: "Just the Russian command should understand that even the withdrawal of their flotilla from extreme Sevastopol to Novorossiysk does not save the situation, since water near this port is also not safe.
In the Caspian. Not too late, all in the Caspian!" It has passed almost a year before the Russian command has reached that the Black Sea for their fleet, and as of today, even flotilla, a dangerous place, and the only way out to keep the remaining ships and unharmed ships - to bring them to the Caspian Sea.
At the end of April this year in Novorossiysk, where the main battle composition of the Black Sea Federation was deduced, a strange revival was recorded around two small missile ships of 22800 "Karakurt", namely, "Amur" and "Tucha". According to preliminary information, "Amur" and "Tuchi" were preparing for the transfer of inland waters of Russia into the Caspian Sea through a shipyard in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan).
This was probably due to the fact that the completion of these two MRCs at the plant "flooding" in the Kerch of the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea seemed dangerous. On the night of May 19, the Ukrainian army struck a rocket strike on the Sevastopol bay - a chicken pier, where the MRC of the Project 22800 "Cyclone" was destroyed.
It was the last representative of this project in the Black Sea, as at that time it was confirmed that Amur and Tucha were relocated to the Caspian Sea, namely, one was recorded in Makhachka, the other in Caspian. Thus, we can say that Russia has begun evacuation of its fleet (flotilla) to the Caspian Sea.
Yes, not in full composition, yes, initially unfinished MRCs, but awareness of hopelessness in the Black Sea and the inability to counteract the Ukrainian means of defeat in the Russian command. To understand what was moved to the Caspian Sea, I think it is worth describing the project of small rocket ships of the "Karakurt" Project 22800. The fact is that the history of the development of these ships began with sanctions . . .
From the sanctions made by Ukraine in 2014 Against Russia, stopping the supply of two-sided gas turbine installations of GGTU-M7H1 produced "Zorya-Mashproekt" for the frigates of the Project 11356 "Petrel". This put a cross on the project, resulting in three ships never completed, and subsequently the corps were sold to India with a painful discount.
Unable to replace Ukrainian GGTU-M7H1, Russian ships have decided to launch a series of small missile ships that would quantify the lack of "storms" quantitatively, and such were "karakurts". According to the project, "Karakurt" is a 3rd rank ship, full of room tone of 870 tons, which has fire potential of 8 cruise missiles of marine base "Caliber" or anti-ship P-800 "Onyx". But it turned out that the construction of even these ships was given Russia with great difficulty through loud scandals.
Production of power plants for "Karakurt" was laid on PJSC "Zazda", which immediately began to produce diesel engines M507, but in the pace - 1 power plant per year! As a result of the MRC of the project 22800 were built on the Navy of JSC "Leningrad Shipyard" Pella "faster than PJSC" Zazda "released power units, and the engine M-507D-1 was launched in test mode only on September 27, 2018. then, in 2018 year, Pella's shipyard filed a lawsuit with PJSC "Zvezda" with a sum of 513.
6 million rubles with a claim for the lack of supply of diesel engines M-507D-1-O1-OOMZ and DGAS-315 generators. The path was not easy in production. And in the promising Caspian. difficulty. Not critical, but still. For this reason, "Karakurtam" will be uncomfortable in the Caspian Sea as a full -fledged combat unit, and their stay there - first of all, for completion, as well as temporary base, but without the prospect of long -term or permanent placement.
The same applies to ships of the 2nd rank of the Black Sea Fleet, Corvette and frigate. All of them are 2 thousand tons - 3 thousand tons, and therefore their stay in the Caspian Sea as an active combat unit raises questions. The Caspian may well be for the Russian Black Sea flotilla asylum, and for a long time. But it should be understood that the use of the Caspian Sea as a shelter for its ships automatically increases its impact potential in the region.
Thus, a Fregate of 3,000 tons in the northern part of the Caspian looks like an elephant in a vessel bench, but these "elephants" have a long -range missile weapon - CRMB "Caliber". The rocket is unusable, modern air defense is intercepted with high efficiency, but the fact remains. In the case of moving the Black Sea flotilla to the Caspian, a disposable rocket volley of the Caspian Fleet can increase to fifty or more.
While it will be a relief for Ukraine, in the Caspian Sea it can cause an imbalance of power and means among the waters. In this regard, more and more relevant ones may become more relevant for anti -ship defense, coastal air defense air defense, and do not exclude that the experience of domining Ukraine in the Black Sea with the help of sea drones will be interesting.