Posted on 06/09/2016 6:58:50 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Russian Admiral Grigorovich frigate. Sputnik Photo
The first in a new class of Russian guided missile frigate arrived on Thursday to Sevastopol marking the first time the Black Sea Fleet has seen a new blue water warship since the end of the Cold War.
The Project 11356-class Admiral Grigorovich arrived in Crimea, the first of several new surface ships the Russian Navy intends to base in the Black Sea.
“This is the first vessel for distant water operation, which the Black Sea Fleet has received over the past 35 years,” fleet spokesman Vyacheslav Trukhachyov told the TASS news service.
The 4,000-ton frigate delivered to the Russian Navy in March and is the first of a planned class of six based in the Black Sea.
Based Talwar-class frigates that Russia built for the Indian Navy between 2000 and 2013, the Grigorovich frigates are built as a multi-mission surface combatant and can handle submarine, air and surface threats, according to information from the Russian defense ministry.
The frigates also field the Russian Kalibir NK long range land attack cruise missiles – first used operationally last year from Russian Navy ships in the Caspian Sea to strike targets in Syria.
The ship’s arrival is part of a planned $2.43 billion expansion of the Black Sea Fleet, announced in 2014.
Eric Wertheim, naval analyst and author of U.S. Naval Institute’s Combat Fleets of the World, told USNI News on Thursday the frigate’s arrival in Crimea was a win for the Russian Navy.
“This shows that Russia’s plans to modernize its naval forces are starting to pay dividends,” he said. “This also helps their forces to achieve a better balance among their fleets and to project power where needed.”
Prior to the new frigate, the Black Sea Fleet was populated by mostly 1980s era surface combatants and newer but smaller patrol craft. The new push to refresh its surface forces might be difficult to sustain.
For instance, since Russia invaded Crimea, Ukraine has refused to supply maritime gas turbines for new Russian surface ship construction. Russian ship builders have also been plagued by construction delays.
“The long term question remains one of sustainability. Can their forces maintain this level of modernization and increased operations and capability in the decades ahead? It will take years to get an accurate answer,” Wertheim said.
“For the short term, Russia remains serious about enhancing their naval and military forces.”
How many ships has obama cut from the US Navy...?
Good looking ship, clean lines. That’s quite the bow, they planning on putting these in fleets that venture into big seas?
Whatever other opinions the author has, I know all of them are colored by a BS agenda. Crimea didn't do anything Kosovo didn't do. What's good for the Muzzie goose is good for the Christian gander.
The class itself will be used on deep blue water deployments, reportedly. It’s based on ships the Russians built for the Indians for use in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The US supported the Muzzies against
the Serbs at Kosovo. And they thanked
us with 9/11. Our foreign policy has
been wrong-headed since the Vietnam war.
There are really only two kinds of ships, and this one looks like a lovely target.
Ping
It’s 20’years obsolete as it has no stealth features
The numbers of USN ocean going hulls is down to preWW2 levels.
The US merchant fleet is down to about 75 which I think is the lowest amount in US history.
The Kriegsmarine replaced the bows on Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with
more flared ones before the war.What they called the Atlantic Bow to help seaworthiness.
What did Kosovo have to do with 9/11?
But what happened here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f-NACnIfyI ? 24 sec showing damage to the hull, did they use vodka as fuel for the captain?
Do you know anything more about this?
The Russian air force grounded its entire fleet of Sukhoi-27 fighter jets on Thursday after a fatal crash near Moscow which aviation sources told Russian agencies looked like the result of some kind of technical failure.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-grounds-fleet-of-sukhoi-27-fighter-jets-2016-6
Nothing new! This happens every six months to their fleets of SU-27s, Mig-29s, Mig-31s and SU-24s.
The basic hull design dates back to the early 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krivak-class_frigate
A few years ago their weak point compared to Western fighters, bombers etc were the engines. Is this still the case?
That wouldn’t be the only factory. Level of crew training (ground and air), maintenance procedures and things like adequate protection for the aircraft are all a factor.
Sorry, factory should read factor!
This is interesting. I last toured Sevastopol about five years ago. The Black Sea Fleet was in very poor condition, with most of their heavy stuff idle.
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