The Baltic Fleet is waiting for a missile boost. By the end of the year, it will include the newest small rocket ship (MRK) “Naro-Fominsk” of project 21631 “Buyan-M”. In his arsenal – cruise missiles “Caliber” and supersonic “Onyx”.
As sources in the military department told Izvestia, a decision has already been made to include the new Naro-Fominsk RTO in the Baltic Fleet. A crew has already been formed for the new ship, and all the necessary infrastructure has been prepared for it at the naval base in Baltiysk – in particular, a berthing area has been built and equipped.
According to sources, while the ship is at the shipyard in Zelenodolsk and will be launched in the first half of the year. Usually the ships are handed over to the Navy on the eve of the new year, but the Naro-Fominsk may be an exception. It is expected that it will be handed over to the fleet ahead of schedule – this fall. The technology for manufacturing RTOs of project 21631 has been worked out, and there are no visible reasons for the delay in the construction of Naro-Fominsk.
Today, the Navy has nine Buyanov-Ms, which are part of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets and the Caspian Flotilla. Three more Project 21631 ships are under construction.
Initially, the Buyans-M were developed for the protection and protection of the coastal marine zone, as well as for operations on large rivers and lakes. But the launches of Caliber from the waters of the Caspian and Mediterranean seas against terrorist targets in Syria have demonstrated their ability to deliver ultra-precise missile strikes at a distance of about 1.5 thousand km.
The first rocket launches of Buyanov-M in the fall of 2015 became a worldwide sensation. For the Western media, the shock capabilities of the “kids” came as a surprise.
In 2016, the Buyans again surprised the Western “partners”. The journey around Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean Sea of two Buyanov-Ms – Serpukhov and Zeleny Dol – made a lot of noise. Representatives of the European media did not expect to see carriers of long-range Caliber off their coasts.
Read in full in the exclusive Izvestia article:
The way to the water: RTO “Naro-Fominsk” will be sent to the Baltic
Source: IZ
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