Built for Pacific Fleet "Varshavyanka" reached the Suez Canal
Pacific Ship Squad fleet, making an inter-fleet transition from the Baltic to Kamchatka, reached the Suez Canal and began crossing it. The detachment includes the "Gremyashchiy" corvette and two "Varshavyanka" diesel-electric submarines, built for the Pacific Fleet.
According to a source in the Russian military-industrial complex, to whose words he refers TASS, the submarines and the ship are moving southward, without any details of the passage. Judging by the source's statement, the corvette and the submarines are part of the same detachment, although previously there was information that the transition would be separate and that the "Thundering" would arrive at the Pacific Fleet later.
The message says only about one corvette and two "Varshavyankas", but in the passage they must be accompanied by support vessels and a tug. Submarines will sail most of the way on the surface.
The fact that two diesel-electric submarines went to the inter-fleet passage to Kamchatka became known in early September. The message did not contain any specific information, only spoke about the dispatch of submarines along the "southern route" from the Baltic through the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean. At the same time, the corvette "Thundering" temporarily became part of the permanent grouping of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, where it was waiting for the submarines to approach.
The diesel-electric submarines Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov are the first and second submarines of the 636.3 Varshavyanka project out of six for the Pacific Fleet, the construction contract for which was signed by the RF Ministry of Defense and Admiralty Shipyards in September 2016. They entered the Navy in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Corvette "Thundering" is the lead ship of Project 20385, transferred to the fleet on December 29, 2020.
- Admiralty Shipyards
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