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Re: Russian images

Posted: 19 Mar 2021 11:43
by MikeJames
Bora class hoverborne guided missile corvette Samum

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 19 Mar 2021 13:35
by MichaelB
A Russian image in that it was taken on board Kiev during the Cold War with Sirius closely crossing her stern.

Re: Russian images

Posted: 14 Apr 2021 09:37
by MikeJames
Heavily laden Project 775 Ropucha class LSTM Novocherkassk of the Black SEa Fleet transits the Bosphorus towards Mediterranean en route to the port of Tartus in Syria with another load of material for the Russian and Syrian militaries.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 14 Apr 2021 11:15
by MikeJames
Russian Coast Guard Krivak III class frigate Vorovskiy, decommissioned in 2017

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 14:21
by MikeJames
Destroyer Otchayannyy with a huge Mediterranean moon.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 21 Apr 2021 22:12
by MikeJames
Russian Pacific Fleet Project 20380 corvette Sovershennyy (Perfect) seen in the Sea of Japan.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 03 May 2021 17:51
by MikeJames
The Admiral Lazarev (formerly the Frunze) is towed to the scrapyard where demolition began about a week ago.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 03 May 2021 18:19
by MikeJames
Projekt 1164 Atlant class (NATO Slava class) cruiser Varyag

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 03 May 2021 21:03
by MikeJames
Another Slava class Guided missile cruiser, this time Marshal Ustinov at Severomorsk

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 14 May 2021 11:39
by MikeJames
Name ship of the Admiral Gorshkov class, Russian designation Project 22350, seen recently in Murmansk.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 05 Jul 2021 11:55
by MikeJames
Project 1164 (NATO reporting name Slava) Marshal Ustinov

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 07 Sep 2021 11:26
by MikeJames
Russian Navy's Caspian Sea flotilla undertakes a firepower photex

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 07 Sep 2021 11:47
by MikeJames
The scrapping of the Kirov class cruiser Admiral Lazarev (formerly the Frunz) is now well underway.

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She was already in bad shape before the work started.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 07 Sep 2021 20:24
by CarlLinkenbagh
Wow. They're not messing around.

That's fascinating, if a little sad at the same time. It would have been nice to see her get a second wind (like her younger sister) but it just goes to show what sitting at a mooring inactive for >20 years in a harsh environment with minimal maintenance will do to a ship. Scrapping her seems to most certainly be the right decision. Particularly noting she's a 40+ year old design that, by many measures, is obsolete by today's standards (without major upgrades and configuration changes) and whose role in the contemporary Russian Navy could be fulfilled by her younger sisters and/or ships less than 1/2 the size that are far cheaper and more efficient to operate.

And yet. Even in these photos, you still get a sense of just how magnificent these awe inspiring ships really are. The fact that she almost fills that enormous floating dock to capacity is one thing, but you can still see traces of an elegant and highly innovative design that was the pinnacle of Soviet surface warship development at the peak of the Cold War.

My former boss was onboard HMAS CANBERRA when she intercepted the FRUNZE on her delivery voyage from the Baltic to the Pacific in 1985. He described (with great enthusiasm) the first time he went on deck to see this brand new, enormous missile cruiser underway at close quarters. I can only wish I'd been there.

I also wish I'd had those photos when I was still building my model. They would have come in very handy!

Thanks for posting Mike.

Re: Russian images

Posted: 08 Sep 2021 12:10
by MikeJames
Hi Carl,

I was actually thinking that very thing; "some of these images show angles you don't normally see, Carl could have used these five years ago..." :D

Take care

Mike

Re: Russian images

Posted: 05 Mar 2022 12:02
by MikeJames
The Slava class cruiser Moskva seen i 2012. This is the cruiser that conducted the now infamous bombardment of the small Ukrainian garrison of Snake Island during the current conflict.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 11 Mar 2022 22:02
by MikeJames
Russian Project 22160 corvette Vasily Bykov 368.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 11 Mar 2022 22:42
by MikeJames
A Ropucha class landing ship, photographed a few weeks back passing through the English Channel on its way to the Black Sea for what is now the war in the Ukraine.

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Re: Russian images

Posted: 12 Mar 2022 08:36
by littoralcombat
MikeJames wrote:Russian Project 22160 corvette Vasily Bykov 368.

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I see that there are unconfirmed reports she has been damaged by Ukrainian shore-based rockets.
Nige

Re: Russian images

Posted: 12 Mar 2022 11:54
by MikeJames
The Russians wont admit to the loss, but apparently the Ukrainians are claiming it was sitting off the coast near Odessa, barely moving, so they saturated the area with multiple launch racket systems, hitting it with a number of missiles.

Those things are pretty big, and have a decent sized HE or SAP warhead, hitting something as small as that 'corvette' could do massive damage.

Mike

Re: Russian images

Posted: 05 Jul 2023 20:39
by MikeJames
With the exception of the Russian Navy's nuclear submarine fleet, the rest of the Navy is composed of older Soviet-era ships in poor condition or limited capability frigates and corvettes built in the last two decades.

They have pretty much given up any pretence of being a 'blue water fleet'.

Here are some shots of the Sovremenny class destroyer Burny. For context, she commissioned in 1988, about eight years before HMAS Anzac.

She went in to 'refit' in 2005 in Vladivostok and never emerged. Officially the refit started in 2007 but work did not start until 2013 and she has been undergoing 'repairs' ever since.

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This is Burny in 2015.

In 2016, a decision was announced to continue the undertake her renovation and in 2019 it was reported that work would continue with reduced funding and a shift in terms. (Whatever that means)

This is her today

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Apparently she has been shifted to a pier in Fokino, near Vladivostok in the last year, awaiting disposal. Her decommissioning wasn't announced as apparently it wouldn't look good to be paying off a warship during a war. Putin wants people scared of the Russian fleet, not laughing at it (and him).

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All that wood and formica, you can see why Moskva burned when she was hit, all that flammable material...

A sad end to a once proud warship.

Mike