Russia has raised the Pacific Fleet: what the aggressor has at the Far East
And since the military command of the aggressor country claims that the team has been received about a sudden test of "to repel the threats of a predictable enemy", the focus will find out what Russian forces Russia has in the Far East and whether the Russian fleet can scare someone in the Pacific in the Pacific.
According to official data, the Pacific Fleet, as an integral part of the Naval Fleet of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, ensures the safety of Russia in the Asia-Pacific (APR). The fleet includes excess forces, underwater forces, marine aviation and coastal troops. Regarding surface and submarine forces, they are based in five places in the Eastern Military District: Vladivostok (Main Base), Fokino, the Great Stone, Soviet Harbor and Vilyuchinsk.
According to some reports, as of 2022, 63 warships and 17 submarines were included in the excess forces and underwater forces of the Pacific Fleet. Among them: the flagship of the Pacific Fleet is the rocket cruiser "Varangian", the younger brother of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Cruiser "Moscow", which was destroyed in April 2022.
Defense Express reviewers claim that the average age of the Pacific Fleet is about 30 years, so it has long been not in line with modern realities and is inferior to both age and fleet of Japan and the United States. Let's find out if you can agree with this statement. The Atlanta rocket cruiser was admitted to the Navy at the end of the Soviet Union at the end of 1989, although it was launched in 1982, that is, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet was already 40 years old.
At one time, Atlanta cruisers were very relevant and were considered part of the USSR Navy. The main weapon of the cruiser is the winged rockets of the anti-ship missile system P-1000 "Small volcano", with a radius of at least 700 km. The ammunition of the complex is 16 rockets in transport and powerful containers, which are located on both sides of the vessel, which is a kind of visual feature of the ship.
These missiles can be equipped, including a nuclear combat unit, but even with a regular warhead can be amazed and destroyed by a well -protected and big target, so sometimes Russian experts call a cruiser of this type of "killers of aircraft carriers". Also, the ship has eight long-range air circuit companies S-300 "Fort" and two OSA-MA-MA, one, 130 mm AK-130, six AK-630, as well as two protical torpedoes of RBU-6000.
In general, as practice has shown on the example of the Moscow cruiser, despite the formidable weapons and air defense systems, the ship may be vulnerable to modern missile systems, in particular for Neptune missiles. The Pacific Fleet includes protunny ships "Marshal Shaposhnikov", "Admiral Triabutz" and "Admiral Panteleev", which were adopted in the Navy in 1986-1992. Of these, only "Marshal Shaposhnikov" after modernization was equipped with winged Kalibr rockets and anti -ship "Oknits".
He was also installed on Uranus to launch anti-ship missiles X-35 with an impression of up to 260 km. Even modernization has affected radar systems (radar) and artillery fire management systems. The other two modernization ships were not subjected and have outdated weapons-four container installations of Rastruub rocket-thorny, 100mm AK-100 artillery installations and six-barrel 30mm AK-630m machine guns.
Apparently, the most modern ships of the Pacific Fleet are the corvents of the 20380 project, which were put into operation in 2017-2020. Corvettes have modules of universal shipping complexes 3C14 on the project 20385 for the missiles "Onyk" and "Kalibr", and also have 100 mm artillery installations A-190 "Universal".