Auxilliary vessels, Special-purpose and minor naval ships

One more (3rd?) Pr.03160 Raptor high-speed assault/patrol boat handed over to the Baltic Fleet:

http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12145540@egNews

New boat type "Raptor"

October 7, 2017 JSC "Leningrad Shipyard Pella" (Otradnoe, Leningrad region) reported the signing of the act of acceptance and transfer to the customer (Russian Navy) of the next "patrol boat" project 03160 (code "Raptor") with the building number 712, the composition of the Baltic Fleet is presumably P-345. The launch was launched on 30 May, the acceptance certificate was signed on 29 September.



This is the first boat of the project 03160, built by the Pella plant in 2017, and the fourth, built under the contract for the construction of eight boats of this type, concluded with the Russian Defense Ministry in May 2016. Earlier, two boats for this contract P-415 and P-425 (building numbers 709 and 711) were launched at Pella in December 2016 and became part of the Black Sea Fleet on May 8, 2017, and another P-342 "Unarmeets" Baltika "(building number 710), launched on December 14, 2016, was transferred to the Baltic Fleet.

August 24, 2017 at the factory "Pella" was launched the next boat of this type with the building number 713, planned to be entered into the Caspian Flotilla.

Earlier, under the previous contract in 2014, the Pella plant passed to the Ministry of Defense of Russia eight project 03160 vessels during 2015 - four planned for the 2014 program, and four for the 2015 program. Of these boats, seven (building numbers from 701 to 705 and from 707 to 708) are officially listed as part of the Russian Navy counter-sabotage boats. In fact, according to known data, these boats are used in fleets as part of naval reconnaissance points for special purposes. Of these, two boats (P-280 and P-281, the corresponding building numbers 705 and 704) are part of the Baltic Fleet, based on Kronstadt, and the remaining five (P-274, P-275, P-276, P-838, P-845) - are part of the Black Sea Fleet, based on Novorossiysk and Sevastopol.

Another cutter of project 03160 P-344 with building number 706, commissioned in August 2015, was built in the form of a communications boat - in fact, as a traveling boat for VIP transport. Formally considered to be part of the Baltic Fleet, the P-344 boat is constantly moored at the DBR-481 berthing berth complex-project 02590 of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation on the Frunzenskaya embankment of the Moskva River, and, apparently, is used as a personal cutter of the Minister of Defense Russia.
The head boat (prototype) of the RM-15 project 03160 Raptor, designed and built by Pella on the instructions of the Russian Navy, was launched at the enterprise on August 15, 2013 and handed over to the Navy in 2014, and is now being used as part of the Black Sea Fleet. Thus, "Pella" has surrendered in total 13 already boats project 03160.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2893028.html

1 more Pr.03160 Raptor high-speed assault/patrol boat handed over to the Baltic Fleet. To be docked at Baltiysk.

http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12148922@egNews

George1 wrote:Promo video of Pr.02800 low profile fast assault craft by Zavod Ferrumland. First demonstrated at IMDS-2017.

A longish 37 min video on the Pr 02800....what's interesting is that the Navy plans for these boats to be caried by mother ships (corvettes) see video at about 02.30 onwards

2nd Pr.18280 Russian intelligence gathering ship Ivan Khurs is towed out of its dock at Severnaya Verf. Its technology readiness stands at 99% at present according to the Severnaya Verf press release:
http://www.nordsy.spb.ru/pressroom/16886/

During the 80s did the soviet merchant marine have any ro ro cargo ships ?
could they be used to transport heavy ground equipment like MBT, SP guns, mobile SAMs etc
was this ever considered during the soviet era ?

wilhelm wrote:

nastle77 wrote:During the 80s did the soviet merchant marine have any ro ro cargo ships ?
could they be used to transport heavy ground equipment like MBT, SP guns, mobile SAMs etc
was this ever considered during the soviet era ?

Yes, they operated quite a few, of which the Ivan Skuridin class (27 000t DWT) built in Zhdanov comes to mind as the first Soviet built Ro Ro ships I think, but I speak under correction.
They also operated quite a few other Soviet, Finnish, Polish, or East German built Ro Ro vessels.
For example, my copy of Janes 86-87 includes the 4 Kapitan Smirnov class built in Nikolayev, which were 230m long gas turbine powered Ro Ro vessels.
Janes seems to intimate about 60 plus Ro Ro vessels at that time.
 Another example:
http://shipsmonthly.com/news/roll-on-roll-off-scrapping-of-russian-ro-ros-accelerates/

Thank you so much for your help

PapaDragon wrote:
'Ilmen' launched in Pella. I got no idea what this one is for, spy ship maybe?

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/101244/

Diving and underwater research... 3rd and final out of a class of 3.

Oceanographic vessel. The vessel is to join the Black Sea Fleet following the fitting-out and sea trials.

For the Russian Navy, two Manul-type air-cushion boats of Project 23321

According to the St. Petersburg publication of the newspaper Kommersant in an article by Herman Kostrinsky "On patrol icebreakers will install" Manuly. "Central Neptun will build two hovercraft for the Ministry of Defense," the patrol icebreakers of project 23350, ordered at the Admiralty shipyards, will be manned by the courts on the air cushion (SVP) "Manul" project 23321. Boats at a price of 111.22 million rubles for the product will be built by the Central Design Bureau "Neptune", since the Soviet times designing SVP for various purposes. "Manuls" are developed on the basis of SVP "Pardus", supplied by the design bureau to the Ministry of Defense.



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Reports of 2017 of auxiliary ships scrapped:

http://economy.mil.ru/economy/disposal_of_assets/movables/lots/more.htm?id=12108641@morfMovablesAuction

Project 737 -- RB-310 -- 1976
Project 1606/T63 -- RVK-1227 -- 198?
Project 1415 -- RVK-195 -- 1981?

http://economy.mil.ru/economy/disposal_of_assets/movables/lots/more.htm?id=12113190@morfMovablesAuction

Project 1394A -- 117 -- 1992

Project 872 -- GS-392 -- 1979

http://economy.mil.ru/economy/disposal_of_assets/movables/lots/more.htm?id=12152600@morfMovablesAuction

Project 824 -- СХЗ-2 -- 1965
Project R801/688 -- PKZ-141 -- 1968 decommissioned 2014

Project 1896 -- BGK-172 -- 1967
Project 737 -- RB-246 -- 1968
Project 737 -- RB-186 -- 1970
Project 1439 -- BUK-1904 -- 1988
Project 1439 -- BUK-1905 -- 1989

In 2017 there are not reports about combat ships scrapped. This year the most important scrapping activity is for auxiliary ships and land auxiliary vehicles. In the case of the auxiliary fleet of the Russian Navy, the process of reduction of the fleet after the end of the Soviet Union seems not finished still.

Russia’s advanced icebreaker Ilya Muromets sets off for Barents Sea after state trials

The icebreaker will be used to provide for the operation of the Russian Navy’s Arctic grouping

KALININGRAD, December 26. /TASS/. Russia’s next-generation icebreaker Ilya Muromets has set off for the Barents Sea to sail to its permanent base in the Northern Fleet after completing state trials in the Baltic Sea, Baltic Fleet spokesman Roman Martov told TASS on Tuesday.

"The icebreaker Ilya Muromets, which left Baltiysk [the Baltic Fleet’s main naval base], will make an inter-fleet passage about 2,000 nautical miles long towards its permanent base in the Northern Fleet," the spokesman said, noting that during the anchorage the crew replenished fuel, water and food supplies.

The Baltic Fleet’s ships and aircraft assisted in the icebreaker’s state trials. During the trials, the sailors checked the operation of the icebreaker’s helideck while shipborne helicopters made over 100 landings on the deck in various weather conditions in the daytime and at night. The icebreaker’s towing capabilities were also tested.

The next-generation icebreaker Ilya Muromets was laid down at the Admiralty Wharf Shipyard in northwest Russia on April 23, 2015 and put afloat in June 2016.

The icebreaker will be used to provide for the operation of the Russian Navy’s Arctic grouping. The icebreaker is 85 m long and 20 m wide, with a draft of 7 m. It can develop a speed of 15 knots and break an ice field of up to 1 m thick. It has a crew of 32.

More:
http://tass.com/defense/983142

Oceanographic research vessel "Akademik Ageev" was launched





https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3030994.html

Most Russian shipyards could learn a thing or two from Pella alright.

IMO the most competent shipyard the russians have now.

If I was Putin, I would put the staff of Pella in charge of have them train the ones who will take over their large shipyard project. So that such a shipyard can be used to it's full potential.

2nd Pr.18280 Russian intelligence gathering ship Ivan Khurs has started sea trial in the Baltic today. Almost 300 crew, engineers & technicians on-board shall carry out maneuvering & speed trials and test the main propulsion plant, sensors & systems.







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The Northern Fleet received two boats of the BK-16 type

As reported by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on February 24, 2018, the Naval Flag was solemnly raised in Severomorsk by the two fast-moving transport-landing crafts project 02510 (BK-16) that joined the Northern Fleet. Boats, according to known data, have tactical numbers D-308 and D-2110.

Presumably, these are the first boats of the project 02510 (BK-16), built within the contract of Kalashnikov Concern, concluded in 2017, to supply the Russian Defense Ministry with six boats of the BK-16 project and ten boats of the BK-10 project. BK-16 and BK-10 is carried out by Rybinsk Shipyard JSC (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, part of the Euroyakhting Group of Companies, the controlling interest of which belongs to Kalashnikov Concern JSC).

Earlier, according to the known information, in 2015-2017, the Ministry of Defense of Russia received four cutters of the project 02510 (BK-16), three of which are on the Black Sea. The head boat of this project D-296 with serial number 01 was built by JSC "Rybinsk shipyard" in 2014 and transferred to the Russian Navy after the completion of tests in June 2015 on the Black Sea. October 10, 2017 head boat crashed in Sevastopol.

Also on the Black Sea there are two larger boats of the BK-18 project, constructed in 2017 by Rybinsk Shipyard JSC.

The project boat BK-16 (project 02510), developed by Rybinsk Shipyard, is another Russian clone of the famous Swedish small combat boats of the CombatBoat 90 (CB 90) project developed by Dockstavarvet, and competes with another SV 90 clone, serially under construction for the Russian Navy - project 03160 ("Raptor") boat of the construction of JSC "Leningrad Shipyard Pella".

Simultaneously, on February 24, a ceremony was held in Severomorsk for the awarding of the name "Valery Fedyanin" to the anti-sabotage patrol boat of the Northern Fleet P-430 of project 21980 (code "Grachonok") in honor of the commander of the 61st Separate Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet, Colonel V., who died in Syria in September 2017 AT. Fedyanin. This is the fourth boat of the project 21980 (serial number 01224) built by JSC Shipbuilding Plant Vympel (Rybinsk), which was handed over to the Russian Navy on November 9, 2017.



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George1 wrote:The Northern Fleet received two boats of the BK-16 type

As reported by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on February 24, 2018, the Naval Flag was solemnly raised in Severomorsk by the two fast-moving transport-landing crafts project 02510 (BK-16) that joined the Northern Fleet. Boats, according to known data, have tactical numbers D-308 and D-2110.

Presumably, these are the first boats of the project 02510 (BK-16), built within the contract of Kalashnikov Concern, concluded in 2017, to supply the Russian Defense Ministry with six boats of the BK-16 project and ten boats of the BK-10 project. BK-16 and BK-10 is carried out by Rybinsk Shipyard JSC (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, part of the Euroyakhting Group of Companies, the controlling interest of which belongs to Kalashnikov Concern JSC).

Earlier, according to the known information, in 2015-2017, the Ministry of Defense of Russia received four cutters of the project 02510 (BK-16), three of which are on the Black Sea. The head boat of this project D-296 with serial number 01 was built by JSC "Rybinsk shipyard" in 2014 and transferred to the Russian Navy after the completion of tests in June 2015 on the Black Sea. October 10, 2017 head boat crashed in Sevastopol.

Also on the Black Sea there are two larger boats of the BK-18 project, constructed in 2017 by Rybinsk Shipyard JSC.

The project boat BK-16 (project 02510), developed by Rybinsk Shipyard, is another Russian clone of the famous Swedish small combat boats of the CombatBoat 90 (CB 90) project developed by Dockstavarvet, and competes with another SV 90 clone, serially under construction for the Russian Navy - project 03160 ("Raptor") boat of the construction of JSC "Leningrad Shipyard Pella".

Simultaneously, on February 24, a ceremony was held in Severomorsk for the awarding of the name "Valery Fedyanin" to the anti-sabotage patrol boat of the Northern Fleet P-430 of project 21980 (code "Grachonok") in honor of the commander of the 61st Separate Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet, Colonel V., who died in Syria in September 2017 AT. Fedyanin. This is the fourth boat of the project 21980 (serial number 01224) built by JSC Shipbuilding Plant Vympel (Rybinsk), which was handed over to the Russian Navy on November 9, 2017.



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Very few boats under construction really. I think Sweden has about 150 CB90 in service.

The Armament Support Ship "Vladimir Pyalov" of project 20360M

March 15, 2018 at the Shipyard Brothers Nobel LLC in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region), a ceremony was held for the Russian Navy to build the naval armament transport "Vladimir Pyalov" (plant number 01552) of project 20360M. The vessel was named in honor of the designer of nuclear submarines, the general designer of JSC "SPMBM" Malakhit "VN. Pylova (1934 - 2017). The date of delivery is 2020, it is assumed that the vessel will be part of the Baltic Fleet.



The construction of the seagoing weapons transport "Vladimir Pyalov" is carried out within the framework of the contract of the Ministry of Defense of Russia for the construction of two transports of project 20360M, concluded on March 25, 2016 with JSC Shipyard "Vympel" (Rybinsk), and this vessel is the second under this contract. The main transport of the project 20360M "Gennady Dmitriev" (serial number 01551) under this contract was laid at the shipyard "Vympel", its delivery is scheduled for November 2019 with the entry into the Black Sea Fleet. The developer of the project 20360M is JSC "Design Bureau" Vympel "(Nizhny Novgorod)

The hull of the second transport "Vladimir Pyalov" under this contract is now being built on the production site of the Nobel Brothers Shipyard. This division of work became possible due to the fact that both of these enterprises are now controlled by JSC Concern Kalashnikov (VKPEL - 33%, and Nobel Brothers Shipyard, newly acquired - 100%). At the ceremony, it was reported that in April 2018, the association "Nobel Brothers Shipyards" and the Vympel shipyard should be implemented.

It should be recalled that in November 2015, the Vympel Shipyard signed an agreement with the Vympel Design Bureau for the supply of documentation for the construction of an armament transport based on Project 20360. The agreement was signed as part of a state contract between the VYMPEL and the Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, was concluded in pursuance of the decision of the Ministry of Defense of August 3, 2015, No. 235/1/19954 "On the adjustment of the technical design and construction of the modernized for the technical requirements of the RF Ministry of Defense, KTA 20360 ". The revised design is assigned the index of 20360M. The cost of KB works was estimated at 309.5 million rubles.

Project 20360M is thus a revised version of the project 20360 (Dubnjak cipher), which was recognized as unsuccessful, originally considered a floating crane-loader of discharge cargoes. From the construction of two 20360 ships under the contract for Okskaya Shipyard (Navashino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), which was started under the 2004 contract, after the long completion and testing in 2013, only the main one as the transport vehicle for the VTR-79 was introduced into the Caspian flotilla, and the second was then completed at JSC "Shipbuilding Plant" Volga "in Nizhny Novgorod for a revised project as an experimental vessel for testing torpedo armament" Victor Cherok "project 20360OC and transferred to the Russian Navy in 2016.







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