As the military explained, the rocket launcher has not yet been taken to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, so it can be considered as a "supernova" ship of the series "Karakurt". "One of them is already familiar to you - a" cyclone ", which was taken less than half a year ago. Two more ships were unfinished -" Amur "and" Askold ", - said Pletenchuk. The Navy representative called" Askold "the most recent ship enemy forces.
However, Russia was forced to return after in 2014, because of Ukraine, they stopped receiving the engines produced in Nikolaev at the King plant. And were forced to move to this series that was completed with power units of Russian production, "he explained. The spokesman said that the production of Russian ships is very stretched, because hostile manufacturers can produce only one unit a year.
According to Pletenchuk," Askold "was Equipped with Stealth technology and had eight mines to launch winged missiles. It is a system of air defense of the ship, that is, it was installed in such a maritime version, " - added a representative of the Navy. Recall that the lesion of one of Russia's most modern ships in Kerch was confirmed participated in swimming and at the time of the impact there was final testing work.
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