Russian Navy: Status & News #4

George1 wrote:Baltic Fleet patrol vessel Yaroslav Mudry enters Sudan’s port

The Russian navy sailors will also carry out the necessary maintenance check and overhaul of the ship during the three-day anchorage

KALININGRAD, August 15. /TASS/. The Yaroslav Mudry (Yaroslav the Wise) patrol vessel, which is keeping the watch in the Gulf of Aden area, ..........

The Yaroslav Mudry left the Baltiysk city naval harbor on April 15. The main tasks of the voyage are the demonstration of St. Andrew’s flag, the performance of tasks in accordance with the training plan and the provision of secure civil shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa area.
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First of all Yaroslav Mudry is NOT patrol vessel, it's anti-submarine warfare frigate.

And second this is why Bykov-class patrol vessels are necessary for Russian Navy: to take the load off from proper warships and free them up by taking on this two-bit nonsense assignments​.

Instead of looking for submarines they have full-sized ASW frigates playing Coast Guard in Aden. And this is hardly worst situation, sometimes they send Udalois or even Slavas to waste time and mileage on this.

Bykovs can't come soon enough....

Dunno about Slavas but they did send PtG to do anti-piracy the one time in possibly the most glorious over-kill ever.

Thing about the 22160s is everyone else is happily sending proper ASW Frigates & Destroyers to do that duty, its kinda weird that of all the countries that could do it Russia is the only one really investing in not just 1 or 2 ships dedicated to the task but 6 of them.

I'm curious about what route Yaroslav Mudry took, seems to have gone mostly under the radar so to speak, I think maybe round Africa rather than via the Med?

Here's something a bit interesting http://charly015.blogspot.com/2018/08/facilidades-para-los-buques-rusos-en.html
Russia has just done a deal with Madagascar to allow Russian ships to make stops.

Its not like Russia is about to station a squadron of Cruisers over on the East coast of Africa to 'challenge' US navy in the Indian Ocean or anything but its interesting to see 'isolated' Russian diplomacy is getting wins despite all manner of pressure against it.

A while back there was a big US/UK led hoo-hah over Russian ships stopping in Spanish Ceuta on the way to Syria.
Meanwhile according to Charly015 Russia has successfully also done deals with places like Seychelles, Mozambique & Tanzania as well.

Meanwhile Ustinov & Severomorsk spending 5 days in Algeria

PapaDragon wrote:

George1 wrote:Baltic Fleet patrol vessel Yaroslav Mudry enters Sudan’s port

The Russian navy sailors will also carry out the necessary maintenance check and overhaul of the ship during the three-day anchorage

KALININGRAD, August 15. /TASS/. The Yaroslav Mudry (Yaroslav the Wise) patrol vessel, which is keeping the watch in the Gulf of Aden area, ..........

The Yaroslav Mudry left the Baltiysk city naval harbor on April 15. The main tasks of the voyage are the demonstration of St. Andrew’s flag, the performance of tasks in accordance with the training plan and the provision of secure civil shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa area.
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First of all Yaroslav Mudry is NOT patrol vessel, it's anti-submarine warfare frigate.

And second this is why Bykov-class patrol vessels are necessary for Russian Navy: to take the load off from proper warships and free them up by taking on this two-bit nonsense assignments​.

Instead of looking for submarines they have full-sized ASW frigates playing Coast Guard in Aden. And this is hardly worst situation, sometimes they send Udalois or even Slavas to waste time and mileage on this.

Bykovs can't come soon enough....

This is a non-sense.

The presence of well armed ships with antisubmarine, antiship and air defense capabilities will be for sure enjoyed by the submarines threatening Syria from the Red sea.

You are promoting the Project 22160 only because you expect them low armed and as consequence unable to oppose any US combat ship. The problem is that you will see them better armed than you expect.

eehnie wrote:.......
The presence of well armed ships with antisubmarine, antiship and air defense capabilities will be for sure enjoyed by the submarines threatening Syria from the Red sea.

Took me a while to decipher pathetically low quality sentence structure and grammar but I pulled it off so anyway, the reply:

Those "enjoyable" ships will not be doing anything because they will be too busy doing stupid nonsense like anti-piracy and diplomacy instead of stuff they were built to do.

eehnie wrote:.......You are promoting the Project 22160 only because you expect them low armed and as consequence unable to oppose any US combat ship. The problem is that you will see them better armed than you expect.

Even though other ships had decade head start it is Bykov-class that is closest to completion even though more of them were ordered in first batch than there will be all Gorshkovs​ combined.

I see them as ships that exist as opposed to one-off test-beds, promo platforms and fanarts.

Also, no surface ship or ships in Russian fleet will ever be able to oppose US fleet. Sheer numbers are insurmountable.

That is why Russian Navy are not being idiots and are focusing on submarines for this job.

Jutland was long ago. Those days are over. Deal with it.

hoom wrote:Here's something a bit interesting http://charly015.blogspot.com/2018/08/facilidades-para-los-buques-rusos-en.html
Russia has just done a deal with Madagascar to allow Russian ships to make stops.
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A while back there was a big US/UK led hoo-hah over Russian ships stopping in Spanish Ceuta on the way to Syria.
Meanwhile according to Charly015 Russia has successfully also done deals with places like Seychelles, Mozambique & Tanzania as well.

All good news, more the merrier and definitely more comfortable.

However these are all East African nations. Real win will be if they manage to get a port in West Africa (Atlantic). Now that would be a sweet setup.

PapaDragon wrote:

eehnie wrote:.......
The presence of well armed ships with antisubmarine, antiship and air defense capabilities will be for sure enjoyed by the submarines threatening Syria from the Red sea.

Took me a while to decipher pathetically low quality sentence structure and grammar but I pulled it off so anyway, the reply:

Those "enjoyable" ships will not be doing anything because they will be too busy doing stupid nonsense like anti-piracy and diplomacy instead of stuff they were built to do.

eehnie wrote:.......You are promoting the Project 22160 only because you expect them low armed and as consequence unable to oppose any US combat ship. The problem is that you will see them better armed than you expect.

Even though other ships had decade head start it is Bykov-class that is closest to completion even though more of them were ordered in first batch than there will be all Gorshkovs​ combined.

I see them as ships that exist as opposed to one-off test-beds, promo platforms and fanarts.

Also, no surface ship or ships in Russian fleet will ever be able to oppose US fleet. Sheer numbers are insurmountable.

That is why Russian Navy are not being idiots and are focusing on submarines for this job.

Jutland was long ago. Those days are over. Deal with it.

What took you most time is to link Coast of Sudan <--> Red Sea. Your mind alone was not able of it.

Cogratulations, you share with average US citizens the geographical incompetence in adition to the Americanized English. Well, in fact, this is not a surprise.

Fortunately the Admirals of the Russian Navy are a lot smarter than you and put the US submarines that attacked Syria from the Red Sea on escape mode, unless they want Russia gets even the pictures of the crewmembers.

Curiously, at this point, the first ship of the Project 22350 passed the tests and seems commissioned, while the first ship of the Project 22160 is still under teting and trials. While the Project 22350 has 1 ship finished and 5 under construction, the Project 22160 has 6 under construction. And despite your wish, a well armed Project 22160 ship swill emerge from the tests, because the Russian Navy is not the Russian Coast Guard. This is the reality. Deal with it.

The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

If USN attacks​ Russia they will be destroyed. But not as a result of Russian surface fleet but predominantly by submarines, coastal missiles and airforce.

What local "experts" here are trying to pass off as reality is that Russian Navy will be taking on US Navy in direct surface combat away from Russian coast and not get obliterated.

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

With modernization of Tu-22M3M and returning MiG-31 as Kinzhal carriers, the first line of defense are not gonna be ships anyway.  Kinzhal + carrier combo makes like 2000-3000 km barrier against CSGs. And no landing force will move without air supremacy not to mention lack of support at all.


There will be no naval battles needed then.  Subs can hunt other subs. Especially  interesting it seems to be gonna be with fielding Cephalopod drone attack subs.

PapaDragon wrote:

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

Math is working perfectly but problem is ill formulated by you .


You dont attack ships but CSGs. Kinzhal form above and Poseidon form below. No ship is supposed to come close enough to launch an air attack or Tomahawk salvo. The problem are Ohio subs with tomahawks / ICBMs but Cephalopodes are designed for for this task.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

Math is working perfectly but problem is ill formulated by you ...... .


You dont attack ships but CSGs. Kinzhal form above and Poseidon form below. No ship is supposed to come close enough to launch an air attack or Tomahawk salvo. The problem are Ohio subs with tomahawks / ICBMs but Cephalopodes are designed for for this task.

Math is fine and so is problem formulation.

Kinzhal from aircraft, Poseidon from submarines.

No Russian surface ships in this equation.

You know perfectly that US submarines escape of the Russian detection systems as fast as they can. And more in a closed environment like the Red Sea.

eehnie wrote:You know perfectly that US submarines escape of the Russian detection systems as fast as they can. And more in a closed environment like the Red Sea.

No we don't know because nobody is telling. What we do know is that UK subs hightailed once Kilo-subs were on the job. But again, subs, not surface ships.

Also, taking on US Navy in Red Sea? They OWN that place. That would be almost as dumb as taking on Russian Navy in Sea of Okhotsk.

Russia published recently a case with a Project 11356 frigate in the Mediterraneum.

eehnie wrote:Russia published recently a case with a Project 11356 frigate in the Mediterraneum.

And USA published statement saying that ABM totally works. Guess how true that is. Anyone can publish anything.

Only case we have so far that has any merit is Kilo/Astute situation, everything else is hearsay.

PapaDragon wrote:
Math is fine and so is problem formulation.

Kinzhal from aircraft, Poseidon from submarines.

No Russian surface ships in this equation.

c'mon 22160 is sooo sexy especilly with Zircons, Pantsir and Paket

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Math is fine and so is problem formulation.

Kinzhal from aircraft, Poseidon from submarines.

No Russian surface ships in this equation.

c'mon 22160 is sooo sexy especilly with Zircons, Pantsir and Paket

Why the hell not? It would be makeshift solution but whatever...

But for the love of Cthulhu can they just once reach DOUBLE​ DIGIT production number? Otherwise why bother....

PapaDragon wrote:

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

If USN attacks​ Russia they will be destroyed. But not as a result of Russian surface fleet but predominantly by submarines, coastal missiles and airforce.

What local "experts" here are trying to pass off as reality is that Russian Navy will be taking on US Navy in direct surface combat away from Russian coast and not get obliterated.

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

Amiland has 150 combat ships, including LCS, amphibious ships and mine hunters. The russian fleet won´t need all their anti-ship missiles to destroy them.

PapaDragon wrote:

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

If USN attacks​ Russia they will be destroyed. But not as a result of Russian surface fleet but predominantly by submarines, coastal missiles and airforce.

What local "experts" here are trying to pass off as reality is that Russian Navy will be taking on US Navy in direct surface combat away from Russian coast and not get obliterated.

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

US can't afford to lose a big part of their navy. Chinese would take all they want in thr chinese sea if they lose their carriers and a big part of of their destroyers. Obama administration tried to focus more than half of the navy toward China.

On the opposite russia doesn't really care about its torpedo boats and corvettes. If the missiles they fire can destroy just one military ships, it's ok.

PapaDragon wrote:

c'mon 22160 is sooo sexy especilly with Zircons, Pantsir  and Paket

Why the hell not? It would be makeshift solution but whatever...

But for the love of Cthulhu can they just once reach DOUBLE​ DIGIT production number? Otherwise why bother....

now we're talking  + many many drone subs (Cephalopods) and number of Huskies. + of course VSTOL fighter

Isos wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

If USN attacks Russia they will be destroyed. But not as a result of Russian surface fleet but predominantly by submarines, coastal missiles and airforce.

What local "experts" here are trying to pass off as reality is that Russian Navy will be taking on US Navy in direct surface combat away from Russian coast and not get obliterated.

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

US can't afford to lose a big part of their navy. Chinese would take all they want in thr chinese sea if they lose their carriers and a big part of of their destroyers. Obama administration tried to focus more than half of the navy toward China.

On the opposite russia doesn't really care about its torpedo boats and corvettes. If the missiles they fire can destroy just one military ships, it's ok.

with russia current fleet, in an open blue water fight, they would never sink one carrier.

Don't bring up weapons they do not have yet and aren't on all of their ships, sorry but no Russia would get crushed in a blue water engagement, that is fact.

Russian navy isn't the Chinese navy so don't bring them up. The Chinese navy is much large and much better equipped than the Russians.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Isos wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

Hole wrote:The job of the russian navy is to defend her country, her ships are equipped accordingly, mostly with anti-ship missiles. Amiland has just 150 surface ships. If the are dumb enough to attack Russia, they will be destroyed.

If USN attacks Russia they will be destroyed. But not as a result of Russian surface fleet but predominantly by submarines, coastal missiles and airforce.

What local "experts" here are trying to pass off as reality is that Russian Navy will be taking on US Navy in direct surface combat away from Russian coast and not get obliterated.

Even if all Russian surface ships launch all their missiles (both AA and AShM) and every single one of them hits and destroys it's intended target there will still be enough US ships and aircraft left to erase Russian fleet from existence several times over in just one sitting.

Math. No going around it.

US can't afford to lose a big part of their navy. Chinese would take all they want in thr chinese sea if they lose their carriers and a big part of of their destroyers. Obama administration tried to focus more than half of the navy toward China.

On the opposite russia doesn't really care about its torpedo boats and corvettes. If the missiles they fire can destroy just one military ships, it's ok.

with russia current fleet, in an open blue water fight, they would never sink one carrier.

Don't bring up weapons they do not have yet and aren't on all of their ships, sorry but no Russia would get crushed in a blue water engagement, that is fact.

Russian navy isn't the Chinese navy so don't bring them up. The Chinese navy is much large and much better equipped than the Russians.

No one is talking about engagement in open sea.

Chinese navy has more ships. No one knows if they are better than new russian designs. And in terms of subs russia is far away in future compare to china. Tu-22/kh-22 is something they dream of everyday. Su-34 too.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:
with russia current fleet, in an open blue water fight, they would never sink one carrier.

Don't bring up weapons they do not have yet and aren't on all of their ships, sorry but no Russia would get crushed in a blue water engagement, that is fact.

Russian navy isn't the Chinese navy so don't bring them up. The Chinese navy is much large and much better equipped than the Russians.

You suggest that Russian navy would meet the USN in a large-scale open-ocean engagement? Like a modern day Jutland or Trafalgar? Nope, not gonna happen. The USNs destiny in any war with Russia is to soak up stand-off weapons and decorate the seabed as a result. That, or stay the F away from Russian territory and keep their troops and sailors occupied with Gender Studies classes.

Isos wrote:.....
No one is talking about engagement in open sea.
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Dude, this is literally only thing some users here talk about... that and carriers...