We know that when the Soviet Union was disintegrated the Ukrainian Navy had acquired a large part of the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet at that time, so its overall strength was quite strong. At that time, the Ukrainian Navy had six cruisers and 7 destroyers, more than 20 frigates, more than 60 speedboats, 16 amphibious ships and other major ships, as well as more than 140 auxiliary ships, in addition to the Varyag aircraft carrier which had not yet been built at that time. In Ukrainian .
Ukraine's Glorious class
Ukraine's shipbuilding industry was also very developed at the time. For example, Ukraine's famous Nikolaev Shipyard manufactured all nine Soviet aircraft carriers , including four 40,000-ton Kiev-class ships. Aircraft carriers, two 15,000-ton Moscow-class aircraft carriers, two 60,000-ton Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers, and an 80,000-ton Ulyanovsk nuclear-powered aircraft carrier . (Of course, two ships have not yet been built.) In addition, there are Ordzhonikidze Shipyard, which specializes in manufacturing submarines , 61 member shipyards that have manufactured the Glorious-class cruisers, and Hezhenski, which specializes in manufacturing docks and pontoons. Ersson Shipyard and so on.
On November 25, 1988, the large aircraft-carrying cruiser Riga was launched and was renamed Varyag in 1990.
According to relevant statistics, there were about 60 companies in the Ukrainian shipbuilding industry at that time, including 9 shipyards and 8 There are marine machinery manufacturing plants, 12 instrument manufacturing plants and 23 scientific research institutes, with nearly 100,000 employees (more including family members).
Kherson Shipyard
However, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, after decades of development, the overall strength of the Ukrainian navy today is no longer the same as when the Soviet Union just disintegrated. At that time, the Ukrainian Navy had more than 400 ships of various types, including cruisers and destroyers, with a total of 700,000 tons and about 100,000 people. At present, the Ukrainian Navy only has more than 30 major ships of various types, and they are all small and medium-sized ships. In addition, there are about 80 auxiliary ships, 60 aircraft and helicopters.
The current small boats of the Ukrainian Navy have a displacement of less than 50 tons
The main ship of the Ukrainian Navy is a Soviet-era Krivak-class frigate. The ship has a displacement of about 3,000 tons, a total length of 123.5 meters, and a width of 14.3 meters. , draft 5 meters; speed 32 knots; can carry a card 25 helicopter . At present, the ship has been lost at the beginning of the war.
In order to prevent the Russian army from obtaining the ship, the Ukrainians should have opened the sea valve
They had often dispatched it before.
In addition, there is also a Grisha class. Full load displacement: 1,200 tons; length: 72 meters, width: 10 meters, draft 3.6 meters. Brother Bai is not very clear about the current situation of the ship. Friends who know more are welcome to share.
The rest of the Ukrainian Grisha class
are just some small boats.
However, the United States announced a latest help plan for Ukraine on the 23rd of this month, totaling 450 million US dollars. The biggest highlight is that the plan is reported to include 18 coastal and river boats. later, manufactured these The ship's factory publicly claimed that there were actually 23 ships in total.
In fact, as early as June 2020, the United States provided Ukraine with as many as 16 Mk VI high-speed boats, priced at approximately US$600 million. It is reported that this speedboat has a displacement of 72 tons, a length of 25.8 meters, is equipped with two MTU 16V2000M94 engines, can reach a speed of up to 45 knots, has a crew of 10-11 people, and can accommodate 7 or 8 people (a total of 18 seats ).
Mk VI
It is reported that what the United States gave this time was not the MK VI that it had provided before, but several different specifications of aluminum boats built by Louisiana a shipyard called "Metal Shark". VI is smaller.
It is reported that these speedboats include two 35-foot (total length 10.7 meters) small river craft (SURC), 10 34-foot (total length 10.4 meters) "Sea Ark Dauntless" class patrol boats, and six 40-foot (Total length 12.2 meters) sea boats, etc. Americans claim that these small boats can be used not only on rivers, but also near the coast.
Probably these
In fact, Brother Sanbai thinks that Ukraine can also manufacture such small boats. For example, the Kiev Shipyard in Ukraine once built the 58155 model with a displacement of about 50 tons. This boat was launched successively around 2017. Several ships were in service, all named after small cities in Ukraine - such as Vishgorod, Kremenchug, Lubny and Nikopol.
The 58155-type armored boat obtained by the Russian army in Berdyansk
Ukraine has since provided a batch of such small boats to Uzbekistan, called the 58150 type. The 58150-type shallow water armored boat is 20.7 meters long and 4.5 meters wide. , with a full load displacement of 38 tons and a maximum draft of 0.88 meters. This type of boat was later deployed on the Amu Darya River by Uzbestan.
However, as early as 2018, the United States promised to give Ukraine two Perry-class frigates with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons. In the 1970s, the U.S. Defense Department launched a plan to manufacture Perry-class frigates. 51 ships were built. In 2015, the last Perry-class frigate, the USS Ingraham, was retired.
The ship was later sunk by the U.S. military itself
After the U.S. Navy retired, 10 Perry-class ships stored by the U.S. military were provided to partners that the United States wanted to provide (for example, the Pakistan Railways Navy had a Perry-class ship, and the ship was once The largest frigate in the Pakistan Navy (until the Xinxin frigate Tugril class entered service last year), there are still four ships in storage. Some of these four ships are likely to be provided to Ukraine by the United States.
Perry-class frigate
By then the Ukrainian Navy is likely to reorganize a more powerful navy than it is now, but that is only if Ukraine still has a coast.
The current situation of the Ukrainian Navy
