PapaDragon wrote:Austin wrote:With 6 Gorshkov coming only by 2025 which is long time to build just 6 ship but I think its mainly due to engine issues , What other class are they building and in what number to over come the shortfall and delays with Gorshkov.
Even the 1135.6 class ships are affected by Engine issue so no more ship of that class either , so what else is there on table ?
Absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Only things getting done on time are Buyan-M and maybe 22800 (very similar ship)
Corvettes are a joke. Aircraft carriers are built in less time than these overpriced and, by now obsolete fiascoes.
Frigates that will be built by 2025 will barely be enough to replace older ships that will be retired. Yasen-M class nuclear attack subs are built at the same pace or faster right now than Gorshkov frigates. Frigate is built at the same speed as infinitely more complicated and much larger nuclear submarine. And corvettes even slower. Imagine that...
As for anything bigger forget about it. They are expanding some shipyards to supposedly build destroyers and carriers but if they have half the brain they will use those new facilities to build more Gorshkov frigates. Building anything bigger before they have at least 12 new frigates in service and just as many under construction or on order would be epic idiocy. But as long as they stick to standard stupidity of one shipyard=one model I don't see anything changing for the better.
Only exception would be new landing ship, they really do need those.
These modern corvettes pack a lot of punch into a small displacement. Buyan-M have <1000T displacement yet have anti-ship firepower equal to a Soviet-era Sovremmeny (8000T), and can engage land targets. A great little ship for littoral defense.
The first units of Gorshkov class are slow as they are a quantum leap ahead of anything Russia has built before, and complex tech takes time to fully integrate and work out the bugs. Ukropistani trouble-making and engine supply problems will cause grief in the short-medium term, but developing a domestic naval engine capability is an essential component of an independent MIC, and its well overdue.