The russians are coming ..emergency everybody to get from street
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So I got to thinking. Yes that’s always pretty dangerous.
I was looking at the Russian Federation surface ship order of battle.
Its sort of a hobby of sorts.
For perspective when I was coming up through the ranks the Sovremenny Class Destroyer Sovremenny Class (Type 956) - Naval Technology (naval-technology.com) was one of the bigger things we were worried about.
This was in the days when we still though we were going to have a big ish battle in the middle of the Atlantic - or so I was told a young JO.
Looks like the Russians have gone back to the drawing board and developed highly capable ships that can do damage from basically their own homeport.
Now however, when I look at the Russian order of battle I am more concerned with anything that can carry the highly capable (if OSINT is to believed) Kalibr family of missiles. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/3M-54_Kalibr .
Which basically means anything with the UKSK or UKSK-M VLS System Russia's UKSK VLS to be Replaced with Upgraded UKSK-M Systems (navyrecognition.com) or even in a container (795) Club-K Container Missile System - YouTube.
As mentioned these systems are fairly new. But they have seemingly proved effective.
But when you are able to carry out a land attack strike from the Caspian sea against land targets in Syria (pretty much from just outside of your homeport) it sends a message. http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2015/10/russian-cruise-missile-fired-at-syrian.html.
Again, taking the OSINT with some grains of salt. Below is a list of ships that have this and my rough comparison to one of the U.S Navy’s similar classes of ship.
And yes this is very much apples to oranges. And I'm only really comparing size. The key take away is that the Russian have managed to fit VLS and the Kalibr familly fo missiles on fairly small ships.
In no order of priority (and yes I am aware wiki is not a reliable source, but the pix arn't photoshoped) And I have seen ono or two of these in the wild in the Baltic
3 x in the water 7 x ordered or under construction Admiral Gorshkov Frigate (433 feet x 52 feet x 15 feet) Frigate Roughly comparable size wise to our old FFG-7 (445 x 45 x 22), larger than our LCS-1 (388 x 57 x 14) and our LCS 2 (418 x 104 x 14). While there is some variance in latter hulls basic what to worry about is
16 (2 × 8) UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr, Oniks or Zircon anti-ship cruise missiles
32 (2 × 16) Redut VLS cells for 9M96, 9M96M, 9M96D/9M96DM(M2) and/or quad-packed 9M100 surface-to-air missiles
Admiral Gorshkov frigate 03 - Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov - Wikipedia
3 x Grigorovich Frigate (409 x 50 x 13) roughly comparable our LCS-1 (388 x 57 x 14) and our LCS 2 (418 x 104 x 14). While there is some variance in latter hulls basic what to worry about is:
8 (2 × 4) UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr, Oniks or Zircon anti-ship cruise missiles[3]
24(2 × 12) 3S90M VLS cells for 9M317M surface-to-air-missiles
Адмирал Григорович - Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate - Wikipedia
2 x in the water Gepard Class Frigate (335 x 43 x 17) roughly comparable our LCS-1 (388 x 57 x 14) and our LCS 2 (418 x 104 x 14). While there is some variance in latter hulls basic what to worry about is:
8 × Kh-35 Anti-Ship missiles (two quadruple launchers) or
8 × Kalibr-NK multi- purpose missiles (Dagestan)
Gepard 3.9 - Gepard-class frigate - Wikipedia
2 in the water 4 on order Gremyashchiy-class corvette (347 x 42 x 16) roughly comparable our LCS-1 (388 x 57 x 14) and our LCS 2 (418 x 104 x 14). While there is some variance in latter hulls basic what to worry about is:
1 × UKSK VLS 8 cells for Kalibr, Oniks, Medvedka or Zircon anti-ship/cruise missiles
1 × VLS 2 × 8 cells Redut
Gremyashchy (ship, 2017) - Gremyashchiy-class corvette - Wikipedia
9 in the water 3 on order under construction Buyan- M class corvette (250 x 36 x 87) a bigger than our PC-1 Class (180 x 25 x 8) but :
2 × 4 UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles
4 under construction/ordered Steregushchiy-class corvette (Gremyashchiy ) (343 x 43 x 13) roughly comparable our LCS-1 (388 x 57 x 14) and our LCS 2 (418 x 104 x 14). While there is some variance in latter hulls basic what to worry about is probably
1 × UKSK VLS 8 cells for Kalibr, Oniks, Medvedka or Zircon anti-ship/cruise missiles
1 × VLS 2 × 8 cells Redut
8 in the water 6 under construction Karakurt-class corvette (220 x 376 x 11) a bigger than our PC-1 Class (180 x 25 x 8) but :
2 × 4 UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles
??? x Klub in a Box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Kalibr#/media/File:Club-K001.jpg
And note these are mostly under 10 years old ships. Which are capable of delivering an offensive punch from homeport.
I've heard of some measures to upgun our LCS 1 and 2 classes. But from what I have read so far we would be bringing an knife to a gun flight in terms of range.
As in we would be well outranged, with these smaller Russian ships operating from or near homeports ringed with Air defenses...again my opinion
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