The Armed Forces told why Putin needed celebrations around Admiral Gorkov (Photo)
The Navy of the Armed Forces noted that the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation has no achievements in the war against Ukraine, so they took a distant campaign "Admiral Gorkov", as far from the Black Sea waters. The Fragat's departure ceremony was personally headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to distract society from regular Russia's defeat in Ukraine.
Thus, the Ministry of Defense reminded that today the Armed Forces destroyed 16 ships and boats of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, and also damaged several more units. According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, it is planned that the frigate will carry out the task of combat service in the waters of the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. During the combat service, educational use of hypersonic missiles "Zircon" is planned. The ship was built on the water in October 2010.
It was planned that it would be part of the Northern Navy of the Russian Federation, but in 2014 in the Russian Federation decided to transfer it to the Black Sea Fleet. From February 26 to August 19, 2019, the frigate carried out the first distant maritime campaign - a round -world swimming of 35,000 sea miles long, during which the Suez and Panama channels passed and crossed the equator. Hypersonic winged "Zircon" rocket is a maneuverable anti-ship rocket with a air-rocket engine.
Designed to defeat ships and ground objects. It has the following characteristics: Recall that on Wednesday, January 4, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu reported that the Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", equipped with a hypersonic missile complex "Zircon", went on a long maritime campaign.