"Russia must forget about the ocean fleet": Polish observer about the "obsolescence" of the Navy
Russia has design bureaus for the design of large ships, there are shipyards for their construction and experienced sailors who can set adequate requirements for shipbuilders. Despite this, for 20 years, the Navy did not have any new aircraft carriers, or cruisers and destroyers.
Obsolescence of the Navy
This opinion was expressed by a columnist for the Polish edition of Defense24. The publication notes that in the coming years the fleet can only count on receiving new pennants no larger than a frigate. As a result, large warships are expected to become even more obsolete and lose their military significance, and not to conduct real operations far from their bases of deployment.
According to the expert, reconstruction is theoretically possible fleet, if huge funds are allocated for it, but this is practically unrealistic due to the growing needs of the other branches of the Russian armed forces.
- the author writes, pointing out that 5 out of 12 built ships of the "Fregat" class have already been disabled, out of 17 pennants of the "Sarych" class only one is in operation.
Mysterious fleet modernization
- writes the columnist, discussing the deep modernization of several pennants.
According to him, the Navy uses four cruisers - three Atlanta and one Orlan, which "do not have the same capabilities as, for example, American destroyers such as Arleigh Burke or the older Ticonderoga cruisers."
- the author believes, believing that the number of cruisers and destroyers will decrease every year.
- in the Polish edition.
As they believe, in these conditions, "Russia should forget about the ocean-going fleet." At the same time, propagandists are creating a noisy campaign designed to hide the real state of affairs from the public. However, for some reason, the expert himself ignores the underwater component of the Navy, which is far from the last value - if only because a number of submarines are carriers of ICBMs.
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