Posted on 05/06/2022 10:14:24 AM PDT by BeauBo
After the dramatic sinking of the missile-cruiser Moskva by a Ukrainian missile battery on April 14, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is down to just three major surface combatants. The best and most important of them might be the new missile-frigate Admiral Makarov...
Commissioned in 2017, Admiral Makarov is the third, last and most modern vessel in her class. All three of the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates belong to the Black Sea Fleet. Armed with 24 Buk medium-range surface-to-air missiles and eight Kalibr cruise missiles, all in vertical cells, the frigates can escort other vessels and also attack targets on land.
Admiral Makarov and her sisters are not big ships. Displacing just 4,000 tons of water and accommodating 200 crew, they’re less than half the size of the U.S. Navy’s main surface combatants, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
But the frigates are about as big as Russia can make a non-nuclear surface combatant these days, for reasons that—ironically—have everything to do with the current war. Throughout the Soviet era and for years after the USSR’s collapse, Russia acquired its big marine engines from Ukraine.
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Happy Victory Day y'all.
Hillary Clinton and George Soros are winning the proxy war!
Yay!
This is nothing new. Tge Russian Navy has always been an incompetent mess.
Look what happened when they sent a naval force against the Japanese.
When it comes to cougar teachers-we always establish guilt here. Let’s see burning pics.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine added a +1 to tally of enemy ships lost today.
Looks like somebody is going down the priority list of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, hunting and killing.
Prepare the obituaries for the next two...
“Look what happened when they sent a naval force against the Japanese.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag
You would think they would learn their lesson, and keep their captial ships out of range of shore batteries.
Though, these days maybe there isn’t such a thing as “out of range.”
I hope it sinks and everyone on board dies.
Russian scum!
I know. If someone made a movie about that, people would say it was too unrealistic and slapstick.
One more step closer to WWIII. YAY!!!
We’ve admitted to giving Ukraine current intel on the locations of Russian vessels. What if Russia decides to sink one of our carriers with over 5,000 souls on board as a tit for tat?
This is madness.
Russia has ten more frigates (total) in their Navy, two of them are in the Black Sea.
No other Russian warships can reinforce the Black Sea Fleet, because Turkey has closed access through the Bosphorus Straits.
The last Pooty flagship got a big promo piece like this right before it got wacked. That is not coincidental. A message is being sent.
For anyone wondering why the Russians are sailing so close to danger, the range of the Neptune is 175 nm. A pair of dividers will reveal that the range circle covers the northern 1/3 - 1/2 of the Black Sea.
NATO is telling Putin hands off Odessa, Moldova and Romania.
Biden would do nothing
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