In short, Russia's kaliningrad in the Mediterranean!
Russia needs to bring it to that status at the earliest and install the entire range of AD system and fortify its bases from terrorist attacks. In addition, in the future there is likely to be Russian nukes placed in Syria as a bargaining chip for the US nukes in Turkey.
More Talwars for India. Two ships will be build in Russia and two in India.
Does anyone know if these two ships which will be build in Russia are going to be two ships from trio of Admiral Butakov, Admiral Istomin and Admiral Kornilov? It kind of would make sense to sell them and build more of them later, if needed, when new engines becomes available. Or just build more Project 22350 class ships.
More Talwars for India. Two ships will be build in Russia and two in India.
Does anyone know if these two ships which will be build in Russia are going to be two ships from trio of Admiral Butakov, Admiral Istomin and Admiral Kornilov? It kind of would make sense to sell them and build more of them later, if needed, when new engines becomes available. Or just build more Project 22350 class ships.
So the rumors go, the first two will be sold, Kornilov sections will be shipped to India to be completed.
I of course am hoping Yantar starts building 22350s.
They are already committed to making engines for the type in-Russia, making more 11356s would necessitate energy towards a whole separate engine model.
Project 949A Smolenks attacked ground targets near Novaya Zemlya with Granit.
That would be surprising if true as those were claimed to have only anti-ship capabilities, even in the recent Nakhimov upgrade articles. I would suppose there was some modification made and this was a test fire?
By: blash
- 18th October 2016 at 15:09Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I've summarized known info on currently deployed RuN vessels. Mostly based on Balabin's post @ airbase.ru and info from bmpd, etc.
* Kuznetsov group consists of Pyotr Vellikiy, Vice Admiral Kulakov, Severomorsk, tanker (Sergey Osipov) and everyone's favorite tugboat (Nikolay Chiker). Admiral Essen has completed it's acceptance trials in the Baltics and is moving south to it's home base (Sevastopol, coincidentally), it'll most likely join carrier group right away. Admiral Grigorovich seems to be moving out to the Med as well (according to Balabin's post linked above).
* Stoikiy and Soobrazitelnyy (airbase.ru has been arguing over whether it's truly it) are lurking around in the Northern Sea. Whether they will join Kuznetsov is unknown.
* Admiral Tributs, Bystry, tanker (Alatau) and tugboat (Boris Butoma) have moved out to Indian Ocean to take part in Indra-2016 exercises.
* Serpukhov and Zelenyy Dol are in Ceuta, possibly moving to their new home base in the Baltics (unconfirmed).
* Landing ships are busy on the Syrian Express as we all know.
By: Yama
- 18th October 2016 at 20:59Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That would be surprising if true as those were claimed to have only anti-ship capabilities, even in the recent Nakhimov upgrade articles. I would suppose there was some modification made and this was a test fire?
P-1000 Vulkan is rumoured to have land-attack capability, and it was claimed that Moskva attacked Georgian targets with them during 2008 war (though personally I believe the report is incorrect).
A rudimentary land attack capability wouldn't be very hard to implement, on a basic level it doesn't matter for the INS if the waypoints are over sea or over land. It's well possible that Granit has always had this capability.
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By: Zare - 6th October 2016 at 15:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
How?
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By: TR1 - 9th October 2016 at 06:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
http://russianforces.org/blog/2016/09/success_reported_in_salvo_bula.shtml
Huh, so the recent Bulava salvo was not a failure, but a success. That is good news, would have been time for some hard questions otherwise.
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By: stealthflanker - 9th October 2016 at 18:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
yay.. finally a trident equivalent for Russia :3
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By: TR1 - 9th October 2016 at 19:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Pfff, Sineva/Liner is where it is at.
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By: Austin - 10th October 2016 at 12:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
what is the significance of this announcement ?
Russia plans permanent naval facility in Syrian port of Tartus – MoD
https://www.rt.com/news/362209-russian-permanent-naval-facility-tartus/
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By: JangBoGo - 11th October 2016 at 17:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
In short, Russia's kaliningrad in the Mediterranean!
Russia needs to bring it to that status at the earliest and install the entire range of AD system and fortify its bases from terrorist attacks. In addition, in the future there is likely to be Russian nukes placed in Syria as a bargaining chip for the US nukes in Turkey.
MiG-29K inside Kuznetsov hanger.
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By: Flyboy77 - 15th October 2016 at 09:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Russian battlegroup getting ready for Syria
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By: YU1 - 16th October 2016 at 10:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20161015/1479300098.html
https://ria.ru/economy/20161015/1479297659.html
More Talwars for India. Two ships will be build in Russia and two in India.
Does anyone know if these two ships which will be build in Russia are going to be two ships from trio of Admiral Butakov, Admiral Istomin and Admiral Kornilov? It kind of would make sense to sell them and build more of them later, if needed, when new engines becomes available. Or just build more Project 22350 class ships.
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By: Austin - 17th October 2016 at 04:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The benefits and risks for Russia of having a permanent naval base on Syria’s Mediterranean coast
http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=29848
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By: TR1 - 17th October 2016 at 05:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
So the rumors go, the first two will be sold, Kornilov sections will be shipped to India to be completed.
I of course am hoping Yantar starts building 22350s.
They are already committed to making engines for the type in-Russia, making more 11356s would necessitate energy towards a whole separate engine model.
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By: TR1 - 17th October 2016 at 05:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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By: TR1 - 17th October 2016 at 20:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
https://lenta.ru/news/2016/10/17/achtotakmozhnobylo/
Project 949A Smolenks attacked ground targets near Novaya Zemlya with Granit.
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By: TR1 - 18th October 2016 at 01:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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By: ijozic - 18th October 2016 at 10:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That would be surprising if true as those were claimed to have only anti-ship capabilities, even in the recent Nakhimov upgrade articles. I would suppose there was some modification made and this was a test fire?
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By: blash - 18th October 2016 at 15:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I've summarized known info on currently deployed RuN vessels. Mostly based on Balabin's post @ airbase.ru and info from bmpd, etc.
* Kuznetsov group consists of Pyotr Vellikiy, Vice Admiral Kulakov, Severomorsk, tanker (Sergey Osipov) and everyone's favorite tugboat (Nikolay Chiker). Admiral Essen has completed it's acceptance trials in the Baltics and is moving south to it's home base (Sevastopol, coincidentally), it'll most likely join carrier group right away. Admiral Grigorovich seems to be moving out to the Med as well (according to Balabin's post linked above).
* Stoikiy and Soobrazitelnyy (airbase.ru has been arguing over whether it's truly it) are lurking around in the Northern Sea. Whether they will join Kuznetsov is unknown.
* Admiral Tributs, Bystry, tanker (Alatau) and tugboat (Boris Butoma) have moved out to Indian Ocean to take part in Indra-2016 exercises.
* Serpukhov and Zelenyy Dol are in Ceuta, possibly moving to their new home base in the Baltics (unconfirmed).
* Landing ships are busy on the Syrian Express as we all know.
* Yantar is stalking cables near Syrian coast.
* Yaroslav Mudry has been in the Gulf of Aden since August.
* I dunno where Ivanovets and Mirazh are but heard something about the Med.
Not much info on the subs, except the one from TR1's post.
I'm using international classification as I have no idea how Russian types should be properly translated in this case.
The list itself:
* Admiral Kuznetsov
* Pyotr Velikiy
Destroyers:
* Bystry
* Admiral Tributs
* Vice Admiral Kulakov
* Severomorsk
Frigates:
* Pytlivyy
* Admiral Grigorovich
* Admiral Essen [was not in the original list, news about it popped later, so I added it in]
* Yaroslav Mudry
Corvettes:
* Stoikiy
* Soobrazitelnyy
* Mirazh
* Serpukhov
* Zelenyy Dol
* Ivanovets
Landing ships:
* Georgiy Pobedonosets
* Alexander Shabalin
* Ceasar Kunikov
Minesweepers:
* Ivan Golubets
Training ships:
* Smolnyy
4 subs (need to confirm)
2 special reconnaissance ships [i guess, this is including Yantar, which was spotted several days ago]
14 support and emergency rescue vessels
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By: Austin - 18th October 2016 at 15:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ominously "Caliber"
http://vpk-news.ru/articles/33019
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By: Yama - 18th October 2016 at 20:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
P-1000 Vulkan is rumoured to have land-attack capability, and it was claimed that Moskva attacked Georgian targets with them during 2008 war (though personally I believe the report is incorrect).
A rudimentary land attack capability wouldn't be very hard to implement, on a basic level it doesn't matter for the INS if the waypoints are over sea or over land. It's well possible that Granit has always had this capability.
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By: TR1 - 18th October 2016 at 21:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Nice photo of Admiral Tributs and Bistryy:
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By: TR1 - 20th October 2016 at 19:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
http://flotprom.ru/2016/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%9E%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC104/
Phew- Zvezodchka says the 971 boats being modernized there for the VMF will not be the ones that India leases.
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By: stealthflanker - 20th October 2016 at 21:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'd actually like to see more Vepr or Bars being built. But well i guess Yasen must have her way now :3