Sea Battle. Putin is preparing to send new rocket ships to the Black Sea

At the end of July 2023, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Admiral Viktor Sokolov reported that by the end of the year it was waiting for two more fighting ships to be replenished. What type of these ships he did not specify, but noted that these are carriers of Russian high -precision rocket weapons. This year, the Corvetus "Mercury" and a small missile ship (MRC) of the Project 22800 "Cyclone" have already been admitted to the CFF.

In the Russian press, they are struck that the Cyclone was completely built at the Kerch Shipyard, although in fact all the work was carried out by the Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant in the Leningrad region. After the annexation of Crimea, the plant was attached to the AK Bars corporation, which is managing in Zelenodolsk. It should be noted that both ships have launching installations on eight winged rockets type "caliber" or X-35.

After the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian shipbuilding branch came under the sanctions of the event. It had an impact on the prospects for the production of new ships and ships, so in 2018 President Vladimir Putin signed a new version of the state weapons program for the period 2018-2027. "The Russian Federation had a certain back until 2022, although it was already under sanctions since 2014, but they could build ships.

As of today, they had the opportunity to build warships and boats, but not more than 10 thousand tons," says the focus of military -Political analyst Alexander Kovalenko. According to the head of the Projects on the safety of the Center of Globalism "strategy XXI", Captain and rank of Pavel Lakichuk, 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, the construction of large ships in Russia stopped.

There are problems with the compliance of ships and docks for ships such as cruiser or destroyer, the frigates of the project 11356 were unable to finish and sold them India. Currently, the Russian Federation has the potential and opportunities for the construction of small missile and patrols and boats. "Russia's capacity in military shipbuilding has fallen into several orders of magnitude.

It is no longer a great maritime state to add trouble and press on other maritime countries globally, but continues to remain a regional threat. First of all The plant can produce several units a year of boats, small missile or small patrol ships of smaller tonnage, " - says Lakichuk Focus. The Zelenodolsk Shipyard is a manufacturer of small rocket ships 21631 "Buyan-M" and 22800 "Karakurt", as well as patrol ships of the project 22160. Note that it is the MRC of these projects. eight units.

Since 2010, the Zelenodolsk plant has ordered 12 ships 21631 "Buyan-M", of which-nine have already been adopted, in particular four-in the Federation of the Russian Federation. As for the MRC of the Project 22800 "Karakurt", they were ordered 18 units, three ships of this class have already been accepted into the line, in particular "Cyclone", which was mentioned above.

In April 2023, the Wall Street Journal noted that through sanctions, Russian shipbuilding corporations ended key parts, in particular, for engines that delay or stop the production of tankers and ships necessary for the transportation of oil and cargo. There was no discussion about military shipbuilding. After the collapse of the USSR, Russia lost the opportunity to build large warships and this opportunity has not yet appeared.

For understanding, all large ships of the Russian Navy were built in Ukraine, for example, the same Avrane "Admiral Kuznetsov" or Moscow missile cruiser. Oleksandr Kovalenko notes that the Russian military shipbuilding is very dependent on foreign components and spare parts. For example, the Avrane Kuznetsov aircraft cruiser, which is now under repair, completely needs western spare parts, and even paint for painting a foreign production body.

It is necessary to mention the Ukrainian manufacturer "Zorya"-"Mashproet", which produces gas turbine installations that used these ships. In 2015, the deliveries stopped, which is why the Russians could not finish their frigates and sold India. "Russia could not find a replacement for our gas turbine installations, but could not be done. A similar situation with corvettes and small missile ships, used German engines that became unavailable after sanctions. - says Lakichuk.

According to Kovalenko, despite the current sanctions, the level of technical and technological component of the Russian military shipbuilding industry was very degraded. An interesting fact is that Russia is keeping a record from the longest repair of military ships. The heavy atomic rocket cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" is under repair from 1997 to this day. The heavy atomic rocket cruiser "Peter the Great" cannot go to repair, because for many years, "Admiral Nakhimov" has been standing.

Now the Russian leadership makes the decision on the write -off of "Peter the Great" because of the impossibility of further repair. "For 30 years, Russia has never been able to make and build quality large landing ships. For example, a large landing ship (VDK)" Ivan Gren "Project 117111111 Such defects were taken into service. Another VDC of this Project "Ivan Morgunov", had to correct these mistakes, but received its defects.

For example, the project 23560 atomic destroyer "Leader", they could not sell, a promising heavy aircraft carrier "Storm Storm "For 100 thousand tons, they do not even work," Kovalenko says. Experts surveyed by focus say that despite the contradictory state of the Russian military shipbuilding, the Kremlin has the opportunity to terrorize Ukraine from the Black Sea basin. The total rocket volley of all ships and submarines of the Black Sea Fleet is 56 missiles today.

It is about the frigates "Admiral Essen", "Admiral Makarov", Corvets "Cherry Volochek" "Ingushetia", "Grayvoron". They all have eight rockets. And also the submarines "Rostov-on-Don", "Old Osol", "Great Novgorod", "Coolpino", four missiles per boat. Although Russia is deprived of new ships to the Black Sea through Bosphorus and Dardanelles, it is possible to update the ship composition at the expense of the Caspian Fleet and the Baltic Fleet.

The last decision looks contradictory given that after joining NATO Finland and in the future Sweden, the Russian Federation will lose its influence in the Baltic Sea in favor of the Alliance. It should be reminded that according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, from the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation has lost 18 ships, boats and auxiliary vessels.