The Pentagon will supply Ukraine with boats for the new Navy flotilla on the Dnieper

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The United States will deliver 18 patrol boats to Ukraine, decommissioned from the Navy, Marine Corps and Army. According to preliminary information, all boats will be part of a new Ukrainian Navy flotilla being created on the Dnieper.

According to the Ukrainian press, citing American sources, the delivery will include two 35-foot SURC (Small Unit Riverine Craft) river boats, ten 34-foot Sea Ark Dauntless patrol boats and six 40-foot maritime combat patrol boats, whose name is not is given. The Pentagon itself claims that all boats are designed to operate on the waterways of Ukraine.



They are mainly intended to protect river routes so that Ukraine can maintain control over them. These boats can also be used in coastal areas

- said a spokesman for the US Department of Defense.

Kyiv confirms the imminent receipt of boats, adding that all of them will be included in the new river flotilla. As stated, the basis of the first division of the Ukrainian Navy on the Dnieper, whose task is to protect Kyiv, is converted fishing and pleasure boats and boats, the military is not there.

The 12m SURCs from SAFE Boats are the standard boats used by the Marine Corps and the US Navy on rivers. Speed ​​up to 40 knots, range 250 nautical miles. It has three points for mounting weapons - 7,62 mm or 12,7 mm machine guns or 40 mm Mk 19 automatic grenade launchers. Sea Ark Dauntless is a 10-meter aluminum boat with a draft of less than 1 meter, and can carry up to seven tons. Used to cover the naval bases of the US Navy.
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  1. +11
    26 June 2022 12: 52
    August 24 Independence Day of Ukraine. It seems that this year there will also be a river parade. Look, laugh! laughing
    1. +5
      26 June 2022 13: 12
      -Now let them sail on the boat.
      Gathered behind the cordon. They start the engine, and after 42 ka ... ak!
      -That's for sure.
      laughing
      1. -1
        26 June 2022 13: 28
        Quote: Uncle Lee
        -Now let them sail on the boat.
        Gathered behind the cordon. They start the engine, and after 42 ka ... ak!
        -That's for sure.
        laughing

        Prepare to evacuate!!! Nevertheless, they agreed to divide the left-bank and right-bank outskirts .. But Russia does not agree! These boats will click them from UAVs or saboteurs-divers ..
        Oh America, how you humiliate your vassals ..
    2. +8
      26 June 2022 13: 17
      How can a river boat be used under the dominance of attack drones?
      If a tank can be camouflaged on land, then a boat is just an illuminated target.
      And far from the front, he has no tasks.
      It seems to me that Americans need victims among Ukrainians even more than among Russians
      1. +1
        26 June 2022 16: 04
        Quote: impostor
        How can a river boat be used under the dominance of attack drones?

        In the pools of water parks. They won't see it under the roof. laughing
        1. +1
          26 June 2022 19: 36
          Quote: ian
          In the pools of water parks.

          Rubber products will delight the public. fellow
      2. +3
        26 June 2022 19: 45
        Quote: Shurik70
        How can a river boat be used under the dominance of attack drones?

        I'll try to tell you how.
        1. delivery on a trailer under a tarpaulin with the logo of a well-known European company. It's not a problem - just 40 feet! And dry weight is low. Trawl will survive.
        2. In the area of ​​​​the Odessa port, they will unload and re-equip with Swedish light anti-ship missiles of the RBS-17 type, which they seem to have already received. 2 large-caliber machine guns are removed at the stern, instead of them - 2 anti-ship missile launchers RBS-17.
        3. two boats are moored side by side to the side of a dry cargo ship (preferably high-sided) covering from the radar about. Serpentine. Mooring at night, after the cargo ship left Odessa. Further, in tow, they go with a lag to the line-of-sight distance of the Snake.
        4. At the appointed time, an attack on the island from the opposite side by Bayraktars, air defense forces, and other forces, and from the sea (from the Romanian coast or Odessa) by uncoupled coast guard boats at maximum speed.
        The launch of anti-ship missiles, the illumination of the target after some time, so that they would not have time to put an aerosol curtain on the laser missile control center.
        It is possible to have time with 2 hulls to launch 2x3 anti-ship missiles from each boat.
        Withdrawal with the installation of a smoke screen and the shooting of the LC ...
        This is so, offhand. But it's quite real. Therefore, the US Navy's 40 foot BOs (pictured) are very dangerous. They must be extinguished before the task is completed.
        IMHO.
        1. 0
          26 June 2022 22: 04
          It's good that these anti-ship missiles are not like "onyx".
        2. 0
          27 June 2022 17: 45
          How easy it is for you. And where are the pelvises that the US has already given to ukrams?
          1. +1
            27 June 2022 19: 24
            Quote from: kulemin0025gmail.com
            And where are the pelvises that the US has already given to ukrams?

            To be honest, I don't know. Probably... DROP. am
            A colleague asked for an explanation: how can small speedboats be used (in the US Navy, coastal defense, port security). Well, to the best of my understanding of the question, I answered. By the way. didn’t want to (the water one beguiled!) Because if the site is read by Ukronatsiks, this can vouchsafe them to such a use. But I think. due to the inconsistency in the interaction of the forces allocated for such an operation, they will not succeed.
            And if our materials are filtered by the competent authorities, then there will be a warning. Which is also not bad. Yes
            Sincerely, Boa. hi
      3. +1
        26 June 2022 19: 54
        No, well, remember the monitors. away from the front, away from the fleet, along the rivers. The Danube, the Elbe ... rode and played artillery, landed troops. so it makes sense
        1. 0
          26 June 2022 21: 30
          Quote: Sadok
          No, well, remember the monitors. away from the front, away from the fleet, along the rivers. The Danube, the Elbe ... rode and played artillery, landed troops. so it makes sense

          So then away from the front and with guns
          And near the front, but with machine guns ...
          Is it really possible to use it at sea, disguising the waste as a dry cargo ship. But anyway, machine guns will be useless here.
      4. +1
        26 June 2022 22: 01
        It seems like no one cares about such details anymore! The Americans treat their military like animals, and you want them to feel sorry for the Ukrainians, but for them, Ukrainians and Russians are all the same, they are the ones shouting on air that it is different!
    3. 0
      26 June 2022 13: 38
      Quote: Cat Alexandrovich
      August 24 Independence Day of Ukraine. It seems that this year there will also be a river parade. Look, laugh! laughing

      It is better to salute the Kyiv flotilla, Iskanders, inexpensively and tastefully!
      1. +2
        26 June 2022 15: 54
        And I thought, why do they need so many admirals?
        1. +3
          26 June 2022 16: 09
          One admiral in each galosh. At the sight of such a brave river fleet, the enemy flees in horror
      2. +1
        26 June 2022 19: 04
        Ballistic missiles for the Iskander complex cost up to 500 million rubles. Give you free rein, you will drive sparrows with them.
        No need to squander state property.
    4. +2
      26 June 2022 17: 27
      Quote: Cat Alexandrovich
      August 24 Independence Day of Ukraine. It seems that this year there will also be a river parade. Look, laugh! laughing

      It is a sin to laugh at the wretched... The Dnieper Plotily will appear there in all its glory, well, or, it will simply stop...
  2. +4
    26 June 2022 12: 53
    That is, with buckshot from Saiga - and to the bottom? Looks like St. Petersburg PVC...
  3. +6
    26 June 2022 12: 53
    Kyiv confirms the imminent receipt of boats, adding that all of them will be included in the new river flotilla.

    ***
    Moon in the sky, the stars are shining,
    Quiet on river choven ply...
    ***
    1. +3
      26 June 2022 13: 20
      Well, now they will trample. In the long-awaited "offensive" .. Like a wolf in Well, you wait along the beach ... crying
      1. +2
        26 June 2022 14: 41
        Quote: dmi.pris
        Well, now they will trample. In the long-awaited "offensive" .. Like a wolf in Well, you wait along the beach ... crying

        That's right!
    2. +3
      26 June 2022 13: 31

      Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov (Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov)
      Today, 12: 53
      NEW
      +2
      Kyiv confirms the imminent receipt of boats, adding that all of them will be included in the new river flotilla.

      ***
      Moon in the sky, the stars are shining,
      Quiet on river choven ply...
      ***

      So yes - "The Dnieper is wonderful in calm weather ...
      Under the "Grad" package, a rare boat will sail to the middle of the Dnieper!
  4. +9
    26 June 2022 12: 59
    In 1943 my father, called up from the Kansk draft board, at the age of 18, while crossing the Dnieper, suppressed a Nazi firing point, received a medal "For Courage", 2 shrapnel wounds, with which he suffered for the rest of his life ... And here again, after 80 years again - the Nazis on the left bank of the Dnieper and again the young boys will force this damned river... Damn this land...
    1. +8
      26 June 2022 13: 21
      You are wrong about the damned river. By the way, it flows from Russia. And it was already crossed near Kherson. And this is OUR land, not the damned one. I understand your emotions hi
      1. +4
        26 June 2022 14: 06
        Yes, it rolled so much ... And yes, these are emotions ...
    2. +1
      26 June 2022 19: 56
      "and I'm sailing from the other side again, Levchenko" crush the reptiles
  5. +1
    26 June 2022 12: 59
    I wonder how these boats will be delivered. This path will be thorny and winding. And there you look and they will not get at all.
    1. -1
      26 June 2022 13: 29
      Quote: saved
      I wonder how these boats will be delivered

      The same way heavy weapons are delivered. Self-propelled howitzers, tanks, MLRS. All of this ends up in the combat zone. And here it just needs to be brought to the rear, to Kyiv.
      1. +1
        26 June 2022 19: 13
        Quote: Third District
        And here it’s just, it will have to be brought to the rear, to Kyiv.

        River - yes, to the Dnieper. But 40-foot, duralumin ones will be sent to Odessa. Probably used under Serpentine.
        1. +1
          26 June 2022 19: 49
          Quote: Boa constrictor KAA
          But 40-foot, duralumin ones will be sent to Odessa. Probably used under Serpentine.

          Fools. There is no non-ferrous metal collection point on Serpentine. fool
  6. sen
    +4
    26 June 2022 13: 03
    The Pentagon will supply Ukraine with boats for the new Navy flotilla on the Dnieper

    In the meantime, without waiting for American boats, Ukraine took the initiative.
    According to the Periscope Notepad Telegram channel, the Kashtan boats of the D-055 project, “the Kyiv version of the Moscow, built in 1979–94,” are used as combat units.
    “Is it there, as flagship monitors, pleasure river trams of the Moskva type act, only slightly armored in front and painted in severe military camouflage so that the enemy is immediately afraid?” — writes the channel.
    https://www.gazeta.ru/army/news/2022/06/24/17998304.shtml?ysclid=l4v53f3022400715209
    1. +3
      26 June 2022 14: 46
      Say thank you that they did not paint "Meteor" or "Rocket" in camouflage! laughing
      1. 0
        26 June 2022 19: 59
        the first one died in the USSR, the second patient was not even on hydrofoils - just a glider. the match part must be learned
  7. +5
    26 June 2022 13: 07
    As I understand it, they are going to guard the new border along the Dnieper? Naive. laughing
    1. +1
      26 June 2022 13: 41
      Quote from Pharmacist
      As I understand it, they are going to guard the new border along the Dnieper? Naive. laughing

      The border will be along the Bug, where these rubber products will come in handy, to jam the fish ...
  8. +4
    26 June 2022 13: 08
    There is absolutely no faith in these Westerners, they said not to allow escalation, and now openly: "The United States does not object to the American MLRS" HIMARS "strike on the territory of Russia

    “I think you will see new deliveries of systems such as HIMARS in future tranches, this is very likely ... these weapons are coming at a record speed, we have not seen this before, this is unprecedented. For defense or for strikes against the territory of the Russian Federation, this weapons - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will determine himself," said John Kirby, spokesman for the US Department of Defense.
    1. 0
      26 June 2022 13: 36
      Quote: Olesyai Lesya

      "I think you will see new deliveries of systems like HIMARS in future tranches, it's very likely... this weapons are coming at a record speed, we haven't seen this before, it's unprecedented

      The transport infrastructure, on the western border of Ukraine, is not being touched. At one time they started hitting traction substations, but then they stopped. They take care of the railway communication, for the transport of goods to the west. Apparently the oligarchs got busy. As in 2014, when they agreed with Akhmetov not to take Mariupol into the DPR.
      1. SSR
        -1
        26 June 2022 14: 06
        Quote: Third District
        At one time they started hitting traction substations, but then they stopped. Take care of railway

        They don’t save anything and it’s enough to drag the oligarchs everywhere.
        There is already a video with French howitzers, trains of only 7 cars are running around, a difficult target.
        1. +2
          26 June 2022 14: 23
          Quote from S.S.R.

          They don’t save anything and it’s enough to drag the oligarchs everywhere.
          There is already a video with French howitzers, trains of only 7 cars are running around, a difficult target.

          Read more carefully and do not twist my words. No one is saying to chase after trains with equipment on the railway. These are half measures. The point is that these trains should not be able to go there from the western borders at all. There are only a few entry points. The fingers on one hand are enough. After all, they have already said that the military has everything for this. They have the power, but they do not have the will.
      2. 0
        26 June 2022 16: 10
        Again, the oligarchs are to blame for everything ...
        1. -2
          26 June 2022 16: 41
          Quote: NKVD Commissioner
          Again, the oligarchs are to blame for everything ...

          They are to blame for many of the bad and negative things that have been happening in our country in recent decades.
    2. 0
      26 June 2022 19: 54
      Quote: Olesyai Lesya
      President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will determine himself

      It is not clear why this Mr. Zelensky is still alive.
  9. +3
    26 June 2022 13: 09
    The Americans have "experience" using river boats to "fight the population." They will probably teach "fighters for independence" their experience.
  10. +1
    26 June 2022 13: 10
    Will there be a Dnieper, that is the question?
    1. +2
      26 June 2022 13: 43
      Quote: Normal
      Will there be a Dnieper, that is the question?

      The Dnieper will always be, whether people will live on its banks - that is the question ...
      1. +1
        26 June 2022 13: 59
        Well, who needs to understand me) including you)
  11. 0
    26 June 2022 13: 11
    Well, it's a river boat. The Nazis somehow need a sea boat.
    Who will take the corpses of their DRGs from Serpentine? Seagulls don't even want to eat.
    1. +1
      26 June 2022 13: 43
      Quote: Architect
      Well, it's a river boat. The Nazis somehow need a sea boat.
      Who will take the corpses of their DRGs from Serpentine? Seagulls don't even want to eat.

      The flounder will get...
    2. 0
      26 June 2022 18: 17
      Quote: Architect
      Who will take the corpses of their DRGs from Serpentine? Seagulls don't even want to eat.

      Fish to feed, or crabs.
  12. -2
    26 June 2022 13: 11
    Yes, the dog is with them, with boats, but how will they deliver them ?! By sea? stop Airplanes? fool Across the Danube, then by trucks? belay So, by that time they will cut off from the Danube ... fool
  13. +1
    26 June 2022 13: 12
    The United States will not deliver, but write off ... Boats
    1. -1
      26 June 2022 13: 44
      Quote: Fedor M
      The United States will not deliver, but write off ... Boats

      Deliveries will be through Poland, and she will pay ...
      1. 0
        27 June 2022 03: 01
        Americans They'll write it off at home and sell it to the Ukrainians
    2. -1
      26 June 2022 18: 18
      Quote: Fedor M
      USA will not supply

      They will put the European allies in a knee-elbow position.
  14. sen
    +1
    26 June 2022 13: 14
    Moreover, the Ukrainian flotilla intends to destroy Russian pontoon crossings across the Dnieper with Soviet floating mines of the CRM type.
    https://svpressa.ru/war21/article/338011/
  15. +1
    26 June 2022 13: 15
    States will supply Ukraine with 18 patrol boats removed from the storage of the Navy
    Is this for the regular filling of the division of boats announced by the chief Ukrainian sailor to protect Kyiv? And where do you put your armored boats? Have they drowned?
  16. 0
    26 June 2022 13: 18
    Naval raft of Ukraine is ready for battle!
  17. 0
    26 June 2022 13: 21
    For the Kukuevskys, it is important that everyone helps them ... not, not all, but the minke whales and their henchmen help, that's a victory ... probably ???
  18. 0
    26 June 2022 13: 26
    Kyiv confirms the imminent receipt of boats, adding that all of them will be included in the new river flotilla.
    Interestingly, the package "Gradov" is enough for this хlotilia? laughing
  19. 0
    26 June 2022 13: 39
    How hassle-free does the logistics need to be in order to be able to deliver three dozen ten-meter fools across the country?
  20. -1
    26 June 2022 13: 56
    In connection with the supply of river boats, I have a question. Can they theoretically somehow complicate the logistics of our troops in the Kakhovka area? Or, for example, contribute to the landing of troops in the rear of the Zaporozhye region, for example, in the Energodar region? Will additional forces be required to defend these areas?
  21. 0
    26 June 2022 14: 02
    Each admiral on a boat!
  22. +1
    26 June 2022 14: 07
    70 feet... over the keel!
  23. 0
    26 June 2022 14: 49
    The most interesting thing is how these boats will get to Ukraine, or rather to the Dnieper. The size is not small.
  24. 0
    26 June 2022 15: 19
    Haha, the mosquito fleet is turning into a microbial fleet!
  25. 0
    26 June 2022 15: 21
    "new river flotilla", but where did the old one go?
  26. 0
    26 June 2022 15: 32
    So this is the miracle weapon that, according to Zelensky and Lyusenka Arestovich, will provide a turn to victory wassat
  27. -1
    26 June 2022 16: 13
    Well, now they will begin to clog the Dnieper with sunken boats.
  28. 0
    26 June 2022 16: 23
    Here I am reading today's articles on VO...


    And it feels like something connects them! Especially after reading these lines:It is claimed that the core of the first division of the Ukrainian Navy on the Dnieper is made up of converted fishing and pleasure boats and motorboats; there are no military personnel there.
  29. 0
    26 June 2022 17: 28
    What boats? It is dangerous to trust them with a trough.
  30. -2
    26 June 2022 19: 33
    they are floating condoms.
  31. -1
    26 June 2022 23: 12
    This is some kind of dream! We are not so spoiled, we use inflatable watercraft (a circle, a mattress, armlets), and the opa is afraid of a luminous punt at a speed of 40 knots, but we will not give up the main thing: we have suffered, begged, the fruit of inspired labor, losses, disappointments and victories - Ours!
  32. 0
    27 June 2022 08: 08
    Well, 42 knots is not such an easy target
  33. 0
    27 June 2022 11: 45
    This flotilla will become a terrible force, apparently what
  34. 0
    27 June 2022 11: 55
    In any case, to ensure the operation of such floating assets, it is necessary to create a system of combat, special technical and logistics support, and this is a very vulnerable target for aircraft and cruise missiles, and on the water, the actions of such floating assets are relatively easy to detect and destroy.
  35. 0
    27 June 2022 16: 07
    Well, how many new admirals will appear now? what
  36. 0
    28 June 2022 03: 37
    This is some indication that the "great maritime power Ukraine" is preparing to become a river state with a flotilla on the Dnieper. The Sea of ​​Azov is lost forever for Ukraine, and the loss of the Black Sea coast is a matter of the near future. The Ukrainian Navy is essentially written off: the ship composition is almost completely destroyed (maybe a couple of pennants remain, hidden somewhere in the estuaries), the naval aviation of the Ukrainian Navy has been zeroed out near Zmeinoye, the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy is in captivity, the 35th Marine Brigade remains incomplete, and possibly a coastal artillery brigade and a coastal missile division (possibly because in the area of ​​Odessa and Nikolvevo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' military equipment is being disposed of daily along with the personnel). But it is unlikely that anyone has reduced the 13 admiral and general positions of the Ukrainian Navy. After the loss of Donbass, it will be the turn of Odessa and Nikolaev regions (a corridor to Transnistria is still needed), the not yet liberated areas of Zaporizhia and Kharkov regions, the goals of the Russian Armed Forces in relation to the purely Russian-speaking region - Dnipropetrovsk region are not yet clear, but so far there have only been strikes on military infrastructure, but the foot of a Russian soldier has not yet stepped during the SVO, although the battles are taking place not far from the borders of the region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hope to use river boats during subsequent battles along the banks of the Dnieper, but in the case of the liberation of the Zaporizhia, Nikolaev, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions and complete control of the lower reaches of the Dnieper and Danube by the Russian Armed Forces, this does not matter much for the Ukrainian Navy. Boats in the upper part of the Dnieper will be useful for Ukraine only for parades in Kyiv and the protection of the future river border, who will let them into the lower reaches of the Dnieper, not to mention the Black Sea. So the prospects for the Ukrainian Navy are very "bright"