The Russian Military Merged Thread- Navy

[CougarKing]

An escalation narrowly avoided?

From the BBC:

Russian warship fires warning shots at Turkish fishing boat

    13 December 2015
    From the section Europe

Moscow summoned Turkish military attache over incident in Aegean, likely to deepen spat between two countries after Turkey downed Russian military plane on Syria mission.

Russia said on Sunday that one of its warships had fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision, and that it had summoned Turkey's military attache in Moscow over the incident. The defence ministry said in a statement that the Turkish fishing vessel had failed to respond to earlier warnings on Sunday morning, but changed course after shots were fired from the destroyer Smitlivy. The ships were some 500 yards apart at the time.

"Despite numerous attempts by the crew of the Smetlivy, the crew of the Turkish fishing boat did not make radio contact and did not respond to visual signals by semaphore or warning flares," the ministry said, adding that small arms had been used to fire the warning shots "from a range that is not lethal".

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[CougarKing]

Navy Recognition

Russian Navy to Commission its New Frigate Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov Later Than Planned

The Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov will join the Russian Navy only in 2016, Navy Deputy Commander-in-Chief for Armament Viktor Bursuk said on Friday. The frigate Admiral Gorshkov is the lead ship in the class of Project 22350 vessels.

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[CougarKing]

How Russia will make up for the loss of the Ukrainian shipyards that built many of the former Soviet Navy's capital ships such as the carrier Kuznetsov and her incomplete sister Varyag before:

Navy Recognition

Russia's OSK Shipyard to Have Technological Capabilities to Build Aircraft Carriers from 2019

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) will have the technological capabilities to build helicopter carriers and aircraft carriers starting from early 2019, OSK Director General Alexei Rakhmanov has told the Russia 24 TV broadcaster in an interview. "We will be prepared for helicopter carrier construction just like we are prepared for building aircraft carriers," he said.
   
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) will have the technological capabilities to build helicopter carriers and aircraft carriers starting from early 2019, OSK Director General Alexei Rakhmanov has told the Russia 24 TV broadcaster in an interview. "We will be prepared for helicopter carrier construction just like we are prepared for building aircraft carriers," he said. A nuclear powered Project 23000E Storm aircraft carrier may displace 80,000 to 85,000 tonnes with some 70 aircraft on board.
   
"Speaking of the technological capabilities of aircraft carrier construction, we expect them, most probably, by early 2019 once the planned modernization has been completed. This will afford us a degree of preparedness enabling us to build superships, be them civil or military," Rakhmanov added.

According to him, OSK possesses the aircraft carrier design and construction competences. "The personnel capabilities of the companies in Russia’s Northwest allow us to set up internal corporative ties that will ensure the transfer of the competences," the OSK director general said.

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[CougarKing]

An update on the Lavina class LHD mentioned in the aborted Russian Mistral thread:

Navy Recognition

Construction of Large Versatile Landing Ship for Russian Navy to begin in 2018

   
The construction of a large versatile landing ship is planned for 2018, Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Tryapichnikov, chief, Shipbuilding Dept., Russian Navy, has told the Russian News Service radio in an interview.  The Lavina (Avalanche) project was first unveiled during the ARMY-2015 defense exhibiton. Lead Ship of Project 11711 Ivan Gren Large Amphibious Assault Ship nearing completion.

"Sure, such a large amphibious landing ship is being designed now. The foundation has been laid, and we have hashed out the requirements, and the implementation [of the design] will possibly commence in 2018, when we will launch the construction of the versatile landing ship," he said.

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[CougarKing]

One of the Russian Navy's newer vessels on trials:

Navy Recognition

Video: Russian Navy Frigate Admiral Gorshkov Project 22350 Testing its Weapons at Sea

A crewmember released a rare video showing the latest Russian Navy frigate, the Admiral Gorshkov (lead ship of Project 22350), using its main gun and launching a Kalibr cruise missile during the recent live fire trials in the White Sea.
   
   
The frigate Admiral Gorshkov is armed with two 3S-14 vertical launchers with eight missiles each of the Kalibr system. The missile load comprises 3M-14 (NATO reporting name: SS-N-30) missiles to attack ground targets and 3M-54 (SS-N-27) anti-ship missiles.

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[CougarKing]

Turkey keeping track of Russian fleet movements:

Turkish Navy MELTEM II CASA CN-235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft Tracked Russian Navy Corvette

Navy Recognition

18 February 2016

According to Russian media, a Turkish Navy Meltem II CASA CN-235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) tracked two Russian Navy Black Sea fleet surface vessels during their transit to the Mediterranean Sea. The two vessels are likely Project 21631 small missile ship (Buyan-M class corvette) Zelyony Dol and the ocean-going mine-sweeper Kovrovets. We reported about their deployment last week.

Thales was the prime contractor for the Meltem II programme, which called for the delivery of six maritime patrol aircraft for the Turkish Navy and three maritime surveillance aircraft for the Turkish Coast Guard. The aircraft are based on modified CASA CN-235 platforms.

Btw, isn't the CN-235 is basically a shorter C-295 with the engines from the Black Hawk helicopter. 

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Not quite: The C-295, which came after, is a longer version of the C-235. And it does not have the same engines as the Blackhawk: C-235 -> GE CT7-9C3's; BH -> GE T700-GE701C.

And for the Turks to be "tracking" Russian ships that basically are around Turkey's coasts is not only "not" unusual, but rather normal. Where I them, I would do the same regardless of the tense diplomatic situation between the two countries.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Turkish Navy MELTEM II CASA CN-235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft Tracked Russian Navy Corvette for a very short time before having to RTB for more gas...

;D

Well, they ARE a baby-MPA...

 

[CougarKing]

Another upgrade for the Kirovs: I wonder how much longer these Russian "battlecruisers" will soldier on considering their age?

Navy Recognition

3M22 Zircon Hypersonic Missile in Development Testing for Russian Navy Kirov-class Cruiser

Russian cutting-edge hypersonic missile 3M22 of the 3K22 Zircon system is in the development trials. The Project 11442 (NATO reporting name: Kirov-class) Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will carry the type following its upgrade, a shipbuilding industry source told TASS on Friday.
 
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[CougarKing]

2nd Kirov class resurrected:

Foxtrot Alpha

Russia's Kirov-Class Battlecruiser Fleet Is Expanding And Becoming Far More Capable
Tyler Rogoway
Yesterday 8:58pmFiled to: Ships

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Only one of the four Kirov class ships ever built has remained in active duty since its commissioning in the mid-1990s, that ship being the Pyotr Veliky, the flagship of the Northern Fleet.

As part of the increasingly belligerent recent Kremlin plan to revitalize the rusting Russian Navy, ship builders have been hard at work bringing a second Kirov class battlecruiser, the Admiral Nakhimov, back to life after it had been rusting away in storage for a decade and a half. She’s getting overhauled and is set to be returned to the fleet in 2019.

At that time, the Admiral Nakhimov will take the place of the Pyotr Veliky, which is slated to enter dry dock for three years where it too will get a deep overhaul and refitting just like its sister ship.

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[tomahawk6]

I dont know the Russian word for Phoenix but they should rename Kirov.I wonder how well she was mothballed ?When done they will have sunk hundreds of millions back into the two ships.I just hope they dont sell them to the PRC.

 

[CougarKing]

Why so close to France?

Navy Recognition

French Navy Detected a Russian Navy SSBN in the Bay of Biscay in January

According French weekly news magazine L'Obs citing a senior French source, the French Navy (Marine Nationale) would have spotted a Russian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) in the Bay of Biscay, off the French coast in early January. Contacted by L'Obs, the French Ministry of Defence didn't deny the information.

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[CougarKing]

Another Akula class SSN joins the Russian Pacific Fleet:

Navy Recognition

Russian Navy Akula-class submarine Kuzbass (K-419) to Re-Enter Service by Late March

The Project 971 (Akula-class) nuclear-powered submarine Kuzbass (K-419) under repairs and upgrade at the Zvezda Shipyard in Russia’s Far East since 2009 will become operational with the Navy before the end of March, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press office said.

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[tomahawk6]

Russia hopes to sell three of their new Project 11356 frigates to India.Three more are in the works all with Ukrainian engines.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-looks-load-lethal-new-frigates-india-15491

 

[CougarKing]

They have an "Auxiliary Fleet" holiday?  ???

Navy Recognition

Russian Navy’s auxiliary fleet to receive 14 support vessels in 2016

The Russian Navy’s auxiliary fleet will receive 14 new support vessels in 2016, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov said on Tuesday. "In all, 14 support vessels will join Russian fleets this year," Bulgakov said on the occasion of Auxiliary Fleet Day.

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[tomahawk6]

The new hypersonic SSM Zircon is to be fitted on their Kirov class battle cruisers.The USN will need to counter this potent weapon either with a missile or laser.

http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/dcss/2016/02/28/russias-kirov-class-battle-cruisers-are-getting-3m22-zircon-hypersonic-anti-ship-missiles/

The Russian Navy will upgrade its two nuclear-powered Project 11442 Kirov-class battle cruisers, Pyotr Velikyi and its sister ship Admiral Nakhimov, with a new under development hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile.

The new Mach 5-capable ramjet engine equipped 3M22 missile of the 3K22 Zircon missile system would replace the ship’s existing 390-mile range P-700 Granit supersonic anti-ship missile.

According to a Russian defense industry source, “The battle cruiser Pyotr Veliky will start repairs in the third or fourth quarter of 2019. Repairs and upgrade are due for completion in late 2022, the ship to be equipped with Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missiles”.

 

[tomahawk6]

Russia will soon be starting on a new diesel sub called Kalina.Where will Putin find the money for his defense buildup ?

http://www.nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/revealed-russias-lethal-new-kalina-class-submarine-15544

Russia is set to start construction of its new Kalina-class diesel-electric submarine after the last two Lada-class vessels are completed. The Project 677 Lada-class—which Moscow is terminating after three units are completed—has proven to be a disappointment.

“The two Lada-class Project 677 submarines will be delivered as scheduled — in 2018 and 2019,” a spokesman for United Shipbuilding Corporation told RIA Novosti. “Then the construction of the new non-nuclear Kalina-class submarines will be launched.”

 

[MarkOttawa]

Not a nice development for NATO, NORAD:

Russia to Arm Attack Submarines With New Long-Range Missile
The Russian Navy will arm a number of attack submarines with the Kalibr missile.

Russia plans to upgrade its fleet of Project 971 Akula-class multi-role nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN) with 3M-54 Kalibr (NATO designation: SS-N-27A “Sizzler”) missiles, the head of the Russian Navy Training Department, Rear Admiral Viktor Kochemazov, told a Russian radio station in Moscow this week, Sputnik News reports.

“The Kalibr cruise missile is a highly efficient weapon as was amply proved by the recent launches from the Rostov-on-Don submarine. Kalibr missiles will be installed on the modernized Project 971 submarines,” Kochemazov said. The missile is “facing bright vistas in terms of further development,” he added.

The Rostov-on-Don submarine the admiral is referring to is an improved Project 636.3 Kilo-class (aka Vashavyanka-class) diesel-electric submarine purportedly one of the quietest diesel subs in the world. It is primarily designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface-ship warfare (ASuW).

On December 9 2015, the Rostov-on-Don launched four 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missiles from an underwater position in the Mediterranean against targets around near Raqqah in Syria. It is likely that the admiral was referencing the December 9 cruise missile strikes in his remarks.

The 3M-54 Kalibr is a supersonic cruise missile available in land-attack, anti-ship, and anti-submarine variants. It is specifically designed to evade active air defenses and electronic countermeasures.

The Russian Navy currently operates five Akula-class SSN’s in the Pacific and six in the Northern Fleet. These include Akula I, improved Akula, and Akula II variants of the class. How many of the vessels are in fact operational is uncertain. Some analysts estimate operational readiness of the Akula-class boats at somewhere between 40 to 70 percent...
http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/russia-to-arm-attack-submarines-with-new-long-range-missile/

Plus:

Russian Subs Are Reheating a Cold War Chokepoint
As the GIUK gap returns to importance, NATO must look to regenerate its anti-submarine forces.
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/03/russian-subs-are-reheating-cold-war-chokepoint/126428/

Russian Sub Combat Patrols Nearly Doubled in 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/russian-sub-combat-patrols-nearly-doubled-in-2015/

Mark
Ottawa

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Got to be careful here, Mark.

Putin is of the old KGB school of disinformation.

Russia has been announcing all sorts of "we are going to ..." things lately. They are in the future, at an uncertain time, and many for unprovable/un-disprovable actions (such as we will put missile "x" on submarines). The real issue that intelligence services will be addressing before we get all worked up is "Can Russia actually fund these plans and put them in effect?" 

 

[MarkOttawa]

Oldgateboatdriver: Well, lots of official concern about Russkie subs (RCN/RCAF implications--getting closer to back to the real Cold War?):

Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise

Russian attack submarines, the most in two decades, are prowling the coastlines of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic in what Western military officials say is a significantly increased presence aimed at contesting American and NATO undersea dominance.

Adm. Mark Ferguson, the United States Navy’s top commander in Europe, said last fall that the intensity of Russian submarine patrols had risen by almost 50 percent over the past year, citing public remarks by the Russian Navy chief, Adm. Viktor Chirkov. Analysts say that tempo has not changed since then.

The patrols are the most visible sign of a renewed interest in submarine warfare by President Vladimir V. Putin, whose government has spent billions of dollars for new classes of diesel and nuclear-powered attack submarines that are quieter, better armed and operated by more proficient crews than in the past...

“We’re back to the great powers competition,” Adm. John M. Richardson, the chief of naval operations, said in an interview...

In Naples, at the headquarters of the United States Navy’s European operations, including the Sixth Fleet, commanders for the first time in decades are having to closely monitor Russian submarine movements through the maritime choke points separating Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom, the G.I.U.K. Gap, which during the Cold War were crucial to the defense of Europe...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/world/europe/russia-bolsters-submarine-fleet-and-tensions-with-us-rise.html?

Sub-launched cruise missile threat to North America also a worry--see near end here:

US Worrying Seriously About Russian Cruise Missiles
https://cgai3ds.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/mark-collins-us-worrying-seriously-about-russian-cruise-missiles

Mark
Ottawa