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https://militarywatchmagazine.com/a...n-new-admiral-gorshkov-class-frigate-by-april
The Russian Navy will commission its second Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov Class Frigate, the Admiral Kasatonov, by the end of the first quarter of 2020, according to a recent statement by the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov. The Gorshkov Class is the heaviest surface combatant produced by Russia since the Soviet collapse, and eight of the platforms are currently planed. The frigates displace approximately 4,500 tons and deploy 48 vertical launch cells - a large number for a warship of its size providing more firepower than the British Royal Navy’s 9,400 ton Type 45 Class heavy destroyers despite being less than half the size. The warships come as part of a trend in the Russian armed forces towards focusing on light and low endurance surface combatants with modern and heavy armaments, which have significantly lower operational costs than heavier ships such as the Kirov and Slava Class cruisers of the Soviet era and are far more cost effective in terms of the amount of firepower they can field.
Gorshkov Class ships are compatible with the Navy’s new Zicron hypersonic long range anti ship cruise missile, and a range of other modern munitions including the P-800 and Kalibr cruise missiles. 16 are allocated to cruise missiles, and remaining cells are allocated to medium and short ranged surface to air missiles such as the 9M100 and 9M96M. At least some of the Admiral Gorshkov Class ships are expected to be assigned as escorts to Russia’s two new lighters carriers, which will be laid down in Crimea later in the year. The warships’ most notably shortcomings are their short ranges - leaving them ill suited for power projection - and the more limited capacity for large sensors which placed them at a disadvantage in situational awareness relative to larger platforms. These will be partly circumvented on a new heavier variant of the Gorshkov Class currently planned, the 22350m, which will displace over 7000 tons, carry more powerful sensors and integrate 120 vertical launch cells.
The Russian Navy will commission its second Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov Class Frigate, the Admiral Kasatonov, by the end of the first quarter of 2020, according to a recent statement by the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov. The Gorshkov Class is the heaviest surface combatant produced by Russia since the Soviet collapse, and eight of the platforms are currently planed. The frigates displace approximately 4,500 tons and deploy 48 vertical launch cells - a large number for a warship of its size providing more firepower than the British Royal Navy’s 9,400 ton Type 45 Class heavy destroyers despite being less than half the size. The warships come as part of a trend in the Russian armed forces towards focusing on light and low endurance surface combatants with modern and heavy armaments, which have significantly lower operational costs than heavier ships such as the Kirov and Slava Class cruisers of the Soviet era and are far more cost effective in terms of the amount of firepower they can field.
Gorshkov Class ships are compatible with the Navy’s new Zicron hypersonic long range anti ship cruise missile, and a range of other modern munitions including the P-800 and Kalibr cruise missiles. 16 are allocated to cruise missiles, and remaining cells are allocated to medium and short ranged surface to air missiles such as the 9M100 and 9M96M. At least some of the Admiral Gorshkov Class ships are expected to be assigned as escorts to Russia’s two new lighters carriers, which will be laid down in Crimea later in the year. The warships’ most notably shortcomings are their short ranges - leaving them ill suited for power projection - and the more limited capacity for large sensors which placed them at a disadvantage in situational awareness relative to larger platforms. These will be partly circumvented on a new heavier variant of the Gorshkov Class currently planned, the 22350m, which will displace over 7000 tons, carry more powerful sensors and integrate 120 vertical launch cells.
