Auxilliary vessels, Special-purpose and minor naval ships

Vishnya-class Intelligence Ship Karelia rejoined the Russian Pacific Fleet

The Dalzavod Ship Repair Center has completed the builders’ sea trials of the Karelia medium intelligence ship following comprehensive repair and retrofit. After that, it was handed over to the Pacific Fleet, Dalzavod’s press service reported to the online agency Flotprom.


"The sea trials program has been successfully completed. The ship’s main propulsion plant, main units and mechanisms, navigation and communication equipment were tested during the sortie into the sea," said Dalzavod’s executive director Igor Evdokimov. "The ship rejoins the Pacific Fleet with the extension of the mean time to repair for five years."

The ship Karelia had been mothballed for more than 10 years until January 2014 when Dalzavod started comprehensive repair and retrofit of the ship. In the process of recovering the ship’s technical readiness, the main engine, all units and mechanisms were repaired, and advanced navigation and communication equipment was installed. All the spaces of the ship were repaired and the the living conditions for the crew were improved substantially. Just like on the large landing ship Oslyabya, handed over to the fleet in the spring of this year, modern polymer coatings and painting techniques were applied during repair work.

Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2017/july-2017-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/5417-vishnya-class-intelligence-ship-karelia-rejoined-the-russian-pacific-fleet.html

The Kalashnikov concern will supply the Russian Defense Ministry with six BK-16 boats and nine BK-10 boats

As reported on August 23, 2017 by RBC agency, Kalashnikov Concern concluded in 2017 a contract with the Ministry of Defense of Russia for the supply of 15 boats. This was announced by RBC general director of the company "Rybinsk Shipyard" Sergei Antonov at the exhibition "Army-2017". The contract value is "about 800 million rubles.", He added. "We supply six BK-16 units and nine BK-10 boats. The contract is designed for two years: a part is delivered this year, and a part is in the next, "explained the general director of Rybinsk Shipyard (Kalashnikov's daughter company).



http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2802940.html

Russia’s Northern Fleet receives another counter sabotage boat

Now the number of the Grachonok-class counter sabotage boats assigned to the Northern Fleet has grown to three

MURMANSK, August 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Northern Fleet has received a new Grachonok-class counter sabotage boat, the Fleet’s press service said in a statement. According to the press service, the boat has been handed over to the counter sabotage unit deployed to the main base of the Northern Fleet’s submarine forces in Gadzhiyevo, located in the Murmansk region.

"The flag-raising ceremony on the boat was held on the sidelines of the Army-2017 International Military Forum," the statement adds.

Now the number of the Grachonok-class counter sabotage boats assigned to the Northern Fleet has grown to three. The first one of them, named "Yunarmeyets Zapolyarya," participated in the country’s main naval parade in the city of St. Petersburg.

The Grachonok-class counter sabotage boats have been developed by the Vympel Design Bureau and built at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl Region, central Russia. They are designed to protect water areas and fight sabotage and terrorist groups in coastal waters. The Project 21980 counter sabotage boats are armed with large-caliber machine guns, depth charges and man-portable air defense missile systems.

The boat’s radio electronic equipment is capable of searching for moving underwater targets, including small ones, such as divers.


More:
http://tass.com/defense/962205

The status of the ships of the Project UK-3 is the most difficult to follow in this group.

If someone knows something, it would be interesting to read.

eehnie wrote:The status of the ships of the Project UK-3 is the most difficult to follow in this group.

If someone knows something, it would be interesting to read.

these are training boats. All these ships are auxilliary vessels that already are being replaced by new Russian projects

a page with some info is this:
http://russianships.info/eng/support/project_uk3.htm

George1 wrote:

eehnie wrote:The status of the ships of the Project UK-3 is the most difficult to follow in this group.

If someone knows something, it would be interesting to read.

these are training boats. All these ships are auxilliary vessels that already are being replaced by new Russian projects

a page with some info is this:
http://russianships.info/eng/support/project_uk3.htm

Yes it is a good source. In the post of the begin of this topic I used a combination of these 3 sources for the ship:

http://russianships.info/eng/support/project_uk3.htm
http://fleetphoto.ru/projects/1197/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8

I included the common part, but there are differences between the 3 sources.

Assume this is the correct thread for this. Really deep analysis of the ship at the link

H I Sutton‏ @CovertShores 4h4 hours ago

Updated analysis explores possibility #Russia internet tapping ship #Yantar carries #Canada deep diving subs.  http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

JohninMK wrote:Assume this is the correct thread for this. Really deep analysis of the ship at the link

H I Sutton‏ @CovertShores 4h4 hours ago

Updated analysis explores possibility #Russia internet tapping ship #Yantar carries #Canada deep diving subs.  http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

Why I never see images you post? It happens only in your posts! Others images are fine...

T-47 wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Assume this is the correct thread for this. Really deep analysis of the ship at the link

H I Sutton‏ @CovertShores 4h4 hours ago

Updated analysis explores possibility #Russia internet tapping ship #Yantar carries #Canada deep diving subs.  http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

Why I never see images you post? It happens only in your posts! Others images are fine...

No idea. These are at the link as well.

T-47 wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Assume this is the correct thread for this. Really deep analysis of the ship at the link

H I Sutton‏ @CovertShores 4h4 hours ago

Updated analysis explores possibility #Russia internet tapping ship #Yantar carries #Canada deep diving subs.  http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

Why I never see images you post? It happens only in your posts! Others images are fine...

I have the same problem with him and Calm sometime. What I do is hit the quote button in the bottom right hand corner. You can then see the links but you will have to copy paste them into a new tab to open the link. I suspect John was a lawyer in another life... probably for my ex-wife.

franco wrote:

I have the same problem with him and Calm sometime. What I do is hit the quote button in the bottom right hand corner. You can then see the links but you will have to copy paste them into a new tab to open the link. I suspect John was a lawyer in another life... probably for my ex-wife.

Never a lawyer but I wrote a few contracts and had a case in our High Court!

I'd better start putting the links in as well as using the convenient button above.

In the center, the middle naval tanker of project 23130 "Akademik Pashin"

This would be the list of auxiliary ship projects (included not shipborne crafts) present in the Russian Navy by the begin of 2018 or little after:

Foreign material:

Dry Cargo Ships for the operation in Syria
Type Dora
Type PPEK-30
Type Dubna
Type Paltus
Project REF-675
Project D-9030
Project D-9021
Project SK620
Project REF-100
Project N3291
Project R-5757
Project UK-3
Project V92/02670
Project D-9040
Project V820
Type IC16MII

Sovietic/Russian material:

Type Woljov
Project 73 (433)
Project 572 (modified to auxiliary ship)
Project 437N
Project 561
Project 572
Project 771
Project 522
Project 364
Project 527
Project 860
Project 596P
Project 6404
Project 577
Project 618

Project 733
Project 1541 (1852)
Project 1505
Project 876 (605-PK)
Type RBT (05T, 378)
Project 1731
Project 870
Project 773 (modified to auxiliary ship)
Project 1549
Project 861
Project 160
Project 550
Project 737
Project 871
Project 1236
Project 1893

Project 419
Project 368
Project 740
Project 1896
Project 1430
Project 1274
Project 1559V
Project 887
Project 1807
Project 852
Project 1791
Project 97
Project 1172
Project 1459
Project 714 (563)
Project 862 (08622)
Project 05360 (05361)
Project 872
Project 1993
Project 1823 (1824)
Project 712
Project 535
Project 1275
Project 1452
Project 1826
Project 1606 (T63)
Project 304
Project 864
Project 537
Project 1914 (19411)
Project 498
Project 14630
Project 320
Project 15201
Project 141
Project 14670
Project 192
Project 865
Project 719
Project 1496
Project 1439
Project 14611
Project 376
Project 1415
Project 1806/18061
Project 1799/17992/17994
Project 503
Project 1400

Project 14970
Project 03180
Project 22030
Project A-149-1
Project 02790
Project 14157
Project 21300
Project 22570
Project 705B
Project SP-1150
Project 90600
Project 02980
Project 16609
Project 18280
Project 1844
Project 745
Project 1388
Project 16611
Project 12150
Project 21270
Project 11980
Project 19910
Project 19920
Project 21980
Project 20360
Project 2018(0/1/3)
Project 11982
Project 23040
Project 22870
Project 23370
Project 22010
Project 04690
Project 0251(0/1)
Project 02690
Project 03160
Project 21180
Project 23120
Project 22160

Officially ordered, the first unit in construction by the begin of 2018:

Project 15310

Project 23130
Project 23470
Project 16450
Project 23131
Project 03182
Project 23550

Promo video of Pr.02800 low profile fast assault craft by Zavod Ferrumland. First demonstrated at IMDS-2017.

Between 4-7 Oct.2017 1st Pr.21180 icebreaker Ilya Muromets is to undergo final(?) MoD trials. Image 2017



http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12144284@egNews

In 2019, Russian Navy will receive two new 19910-project hydrographic vessels

In 2019, the Navy will receive two newest Project 19910 hydrographic vessels with increased sailing autonomy and an enhanced ice type, said Captain I Rank Sergei Travin, Chief of the Navigation and Oceanography Administration of the Russian Defence Ministry at the practical conference dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Fyodor Litke, which was held at the Central Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.

According to Captain I Rank Sergei Travin, one of the Project 19910 hydrographic vessels is being built at the shipyard Vympel in the city of Rybinsk and through the Russian Navy C-in-C’s she has been assigned the name Nikolay Skosyrev, and the second vessel – Aleksandr Rogotsky – is being constructed on the stocks of the Blagoveshchensk Shipbuilding Plant. All the works are going according to the schedule and under the control of the Navy's High Command.

"These vessels will meet the highest requirements for hydrographic vessels. They will have increased autonomy of sailing and will be able to take on board increased numbers of military hydrographs, what, of course, will allow hydrographic expeditions to be carried out at a new level of efficiency," said the Chief of the Navigation and Oceanography Directorate of the Russian Defence Ministry,

He also stressed that 19910-project hydrographic vessels are to be armed with the most modern equipment for hydrographic studies of sea areas.

"These two vessels are built taking into account proposals and recommendations based on the experience of testing and operation of the previous vessels of this project - the head and the first serial ones. They will be even more perfect for a number of opportunities," said Captain I Rank Sergei Travin.

Project 19910 hydrographic vessels are designed for servicing navigation equipment, delivering cargo to unequipped coasts, performing research with a multi-beam sonic depth finder. They will have a strengthened ice type and will also be able to work not only in deep sea conditions, but also in shallow waters.

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12143949@egNews

Don't russia have every information about seas and ocean thanks to USSR ? Why build hydrographic vessels ?

Currents change... sand bars shift... you need to keep it all up to date or it becomes useless.

Sept img of the 2nd Pr.18280 intelligence collection ship Ivan Khurs at Severnaya Verf. Scheduled completion: Nov'17

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Isos wrote:Don't russia have every information about seas and ocean thanks to USSR ? Why build hydrographic vessels ?

Ocean changes so much information you had 3 months ago is outdated pretty much

Can you develop what those ships are analizing and what instruments/tools they use ?? I've never looked for those informations actually idk anything about it. I suppose they want information principaly for their subs so they don't get surprised by currents like garry said.

Having accurate maps is critical in war... doubly so underwater when most of the time you can't see where you are going.

Finding places to hide, finding potential hiding places the enemy might use, or just the safe navigation through an area...

Satellites can use radar to map many areas but close in mapping with ships takes longer but gives more accurate information.

They can also be used for other things like sampling water and accurate deep penetration radar to detect the structure of the ground under the water, or finding lost objects on the marine floor.

They can also locate cables etc...

George1 wrote:

An icebreaker, tow ship, buoy layer, hydro-graphic and research vessel... the new Russian Navy