Posted on 07/10/2017 6:28:25 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Source: Zelenodolsk shipyard
Russia builds small missile ships of Karakurt project at the Zelenodolsk plant named after A.M. Gorky. The Russian Navy plans to receive 18 of such ships. The new ships are said to surpass their predecessors in their combat power and seaworthiness. They are believed to become the new formidable weapon to strengthen Russia's maritime borders and enhance the presence of the Russian Federation in the Mediterranean Sea.
The ships are named "Karakurt" after a species of spiders from the genus of black widows, whose bite can be lethal to animals and humans. The new ships, 60 meters long and ten meters wide, can travel at 30 knots and remain in autonomous navigation up to 15 days.
In the future, Karakurt ships will comprise a powerful group of missile ships. Their production takes about a year and costs less than the assembly of destroyers and cruisers, and they are slightly inferior to the latter in their combat capabilities.
The work to build the new vessels is conducted as part of the nation's efforts to upgrade its navy within the scope of the state armament program, which is to be implemented from 2018 to 2025.
Victor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, answered questions from Pravda.Ru correspondent.
"What is unique about these ships? Do they designate Russia's priority in the navy?"
"Yes, they are small class ships with a displacement of less than a thousand tons. At the same time, they carry powerful missile high-precision weapons: the Caliber-NK systems, which can be loaded with long-range cruise missiles. We've seen the system in action in Syria. A Karakurt ship can also carry tactical anti-ship missiles and anti-submarine weapons. This is a universal complex, but with an emphasis put on capabilities of long-range impact. Plus the ship carries antiaircraft weapons for self-defense, as well as air attack weapons and artillery weapons. This ship is, of course, for the near maritime zone, that is, it is not intended for ocean voyage. It is being built on several shipyards at once, including in the Crimea."
"I think that these are the ships, which chairman of the collegium of military industrial commissions Dmitry Rogozin called "muscular." It is capable of striking targets at long distances both at sea and on the ground. New Russian corvettes and frigates will be equipped with state-of-the-art high precision weapons. They will model the capabilities of US aircraft carriers, but will be a lot more advantageous."
If each of the united states were individual countries, the third largest GDP state would be New York. Russia would be lower than that. Propaganda like this is intended to fool people into thinking Russia could outperform the US in military technology. They couldn’t even outperform NY.
In Army terms, this would be more like a pickup truck, than a main battle tank.
A pick-up truck loaded with guided missiles and anti-tank missiles may be more deadly than a tank...:^)
In an environment where a missile hit can kill a tank, being able to field dozens of missile equipped pickup trucks for the price of one tank may turn out to be the better strategy.
Except in NY cigarettes are 15 bucks a pack and a bridge costs a 100 billion and they don’t make nothing in the manufacturing way.
BM-13N Katyusha on a Lend-Lease Studebaker US6 truck, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow (2006)
‘Quantity has a quality all its own’ ~ J. Stalin
Never underestimate an enemy.
WTF is that, Putin’s yacht?
So cigarettes are smuggled in, few bridges are built, and nothing good is manufactured. Sounds like Russia, to me.
*ouch*
I seem to recall the PT boats of WWII had mixed success...
It’s not even a blue-water vessel - more like a PT boat (McHales Navy?)
Ha! touche’
It appears to me that the Russkies have stolen the plans for the littoral ships that we’ve decided to stop building.
What famous military man said: "Quantity has a quality all its own" ?
Since Tsarist times the Russian polity has built its military might while impoverishing the Russian people. Same ole, same ole.
It’s not the vessel. It’s what it brings.
Missiles are replacing aircraft similar to how aircraft replaced battleships. It’s all about putting payload on target.
When a small coastal ship can carry a precision-strike supersonic missile with a 1000lb warhead which uses satellite targeting and GPS guidance that can strike out to 400 miles the defender is far more concerned about the missile than the ship carrying it.
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