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Russian Navy’s Slava-class Cruiser To Get New Weapons
Russian defense industry sources confirm that the Russian Navy’s Pr.1164 Atlant (NATO: SLAVA Class) will get a new lease of life.
1 April 2020
Russian defense industry sources confirm that the Russian Navy’s Pr.1164 Atlant (NATO: SLAVA Class) will get a new lease of life.
The Vepr SSN of project 971 began running trials after an upgrade and overhaul, a defense industry source told TASS. The handover deadline to the Navy is unknown so far and will depend on test results, as a lot of new systems have been installed during the upgrade. The main one is Kalibr missiles, the Army Standard writes.
The Shipyard named after the October Revolution in Blagoveshchensk in Russia’s Far East has laid down the Project 19910 small hydrographic vessel Vasily Bubnov, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) began producing hull elements of unmanned surface vessels. They are produced on orders of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the USC said.
Borei-A-class SSBN of project 955A will operate in the Far East. Five out of eight submarines will serve in the Pacific fleet. The Russian Navy is restoring the Far Eastern nuclear arsenal which was nearly lost thirty years ago.
Against a backdrop of the uneasy deal between Turkey and Russia in Syria, and growing national emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian warships continue to pass south through the Bosphorus.
Russia is currently building fourth-generation submarines and designing fifth-generation U-boats. Little is known about the new submarines, but it is clear they will eliminate problems encountered by modern nuclear submarines, online Gazeta.ru publication writes.
The main missions of big-displacement warships armed with a major number of missiles is to provide air defense to warship formations and deliver missile strikes at sea and coastal targets.
Open sources reported in July 2018 that it had been decided to take a break in the creation of a prospective destroyer (heavy nuclear missile cruiser) of project 23560. A publication in February 2020 in FlotProm online media outlet did not add anything new. However the headline Leader Destroyer Listed as Outsider and some statements (project stopped because of lack of funds, prospective nuclear cruiser is not even discussed, it is a distant future) caused concern of specialists. Expert Alexander Shishkin writes about project 23560 prospects in his blog.
Buyan-M-class corvettes of project 21631 received new capabilities. Naval robotic mines joined their stock of arms. The smart munitions independently identify the type of sea craft and destroy it only after identification.
