Russian Navy: Status & News #1

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Nice photo, Varyag in a Dalezavod dock sometime in 2013 (?).

Can some one tell me the X Band and X & L band AESA radar are targetted at which class of Ships ?

http://www.media-phazotron.ru/?p=171

1.20385.
2. a series of radars system developed for different classes of warships later.

So Amur Ship Yard in Far East will build the following by 2024

4 x 20380 
3 x 22350
7 x Project 12700 minesweepers
6 x 677 Lada Submarine   

Modernising 971 Akula



What is this Pr 12700 Minesweeper

We will see what and if it builds anything by then.

Shoigu just criticized them a few days ago for being given money and doing barely anything with it.

Does Severnaya know about this 22350 order? Because they were granted a monopoly on it.

This is just them lobbying for orders IMO.

Nice Interview , Some useful information too

Russian Navy sees aircraft carrier development on the horizon

A nice little infographic that I found on military photos .net. It's displaying Russia submarine fleet:

Well while the chart is nice it is also blatantly wrong.

Their claim to only displaying active subs is laughable.

TR1 wrote:Well while the chart is nice it is also blatantly wrong.

Their claim to only displaying active subs is laughable.

...Is there more or less variety of subs in active service in the Russian navy?

magnumcromagnon wrote:

TR1 wrote:Well while the chart is nice it is also blatantly wrong.

Their claim to only displaying active subs is laughable.

...Is there more or less variety of subs in active service in the Russian navy?

What I mean is:

The Akulas: Dmitry Donskoy is a test vessel (not even an active SSBN in the classic sense) while the other two (Arkhangesk and Severstall) are tied up at pier next to each other, near Sevmash. Neither have an armament, and neither are operational.

Further, the entire Kilo fleet is most certainly not active. However some of the boats are being repaired and brought back, and certainly the task is extremely easy (compared to bringing back the giant Akulas), so that number we can keep without straying too far from reality.

14 project 971s is also nonsense. The Russian navy only has TWELVE boats physically not cut up, and out of those, some are/have been awaiting repairs for years and are not operational whatsoever (and their future unclear). I am not talking about a boat like Leopard, which while certainly not active, is being modernized @ Zvedochka, and will be brought back in 2015....not active, but certainly a part of the fleet that isn't going anywhere. Kashalot on the other hand has been @ Amur, awaiting its fate for years.

You see my point I trust.

So basically Russia has 0-7 subs operational of each which makes about 20 subs in total. How can one expect them to effectively defend Russia's waters with such a miserable count for such a big country? If we don't see at least 60-70 subs of all types operational by the next 5 or so years then the Russian navy will be in very deep sh*t

60-70 subs??!?!

Lmao. Do you know how much that costs? America has barely that many boats and they have a giant defense budget.

I don't even know where you pulled 60-70 subs in 5 years. That's factually impossible.

BTW, I have a spreadsheet of the operational classes of major submarine and surface combatants in the Runavy, and their last known operational status. I need to update the subs part, I will post it then.

Marshal Ustinov in Zvezdochka

Nice   

One of the oldest Russian Black Sea Fleet ships returned to service after repairs

Actually Ustinov has served in the Northern fleet, and will probably be transferred to Pacific fleet when works are done.
Good news, although as of now the main missile Bazalt remains.

Strike another uncertainty from my list.

http://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2013/12/17/45686

Barnaul will be utilized.

what do you mean by utilized? you mean scrapped for metal? that's what i managed to gather from the text...

eridan wrote:what do you mean by utilized? you mean scrapped for metal? that's what i managed to gather from the text...

Yep, going to be cut up.

Three good interviews

Shipbuilding: with an eye to the future

The fairway defense procurement


New ships - new challenges

3*4=12 SSK until 2018 and what after - more than 3 per year?

- 6 SSK of Kilo class for BSF
- 3 SSK of Lada class

3 more missing ??

"Admiralty Shipyards" will build on the three non-nuclear submarines per year until 2018

anyway good to see increased production  


Ceremony of laying Krasnodar

LINK

I posted a news a day or two back that they will build 6 Lada by 2024 in Russian Far East Shipyard.

Austin wrote:I posted a news a day or two back that they will build 6 Lada by 2024 in Russian Far East Shipyard.

I know but thats until 2024 and this is until 2018.

I suspect most of the new stuff will be mass produces enmass during 2015-2025 time frame .....many of the developments specially on Surface Ships are too ambitious for 2020 time frame , production bottleneck and new technology are the key bottle neck.

Russia mulls non-nuclear high-precision deterrent force by 2020