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▲ previously displayed on the respective exhibition of new amphibious assault ships of Russia (Photo from: Network)
the former Soviet Union so far, although the Russian Navy The scale and strength of the Russian Navy have long been different from those of the past, but since President Putin took office for many years, with the implementation of a series of strong military measures, the Russian Navy's combat equipment has also ushered in a wave of upgrading. And just a few days ago, foreign media disclosed that the construction of Russia's new amphibious assault ship has finally officially started.
▲The French "Northwest Wind" class amphibious ship was originally the best option for the Russian Navy, but in the end it was still not available (picture from the Internet)
For modern amphibious assault ships, in fact, regardless of the previous front The Soviet Union is still Russia today, and it has been in a blank state for a long time. In recent years, the Russian army has become more and more aware of the importance of amphibious assault ships in modern amphibious operations in the actual combat it has experienced in recent years. It has finally made up its mind to develop its own amphibious assault ships to improve its performance. Face the combat capability in possible future amphibious operations. However, considering that Russia's current shipbuilding strength is indeed incomparable with the former Soviet Union, for amphibious assault ships, Russia initially wanted to obtain it by outsourcing the French "Northwest Wind" class amphibious assault ship.
▲Two views of the new Russian amphibious assault ship (picture from the Internet)
However, due to the tension between Russia and Western countries due to various practical reasons, the French side also announced that it would reject the Russians wanting to buy the "Northwest" The request of the "Feng" class amphibious assault ship even paid a penalty of up to 1.2 billion euros. This incident also made Russia once again clearly aware that it is extremely unreliable to pin its hopes on other countries for heavy weapons such as amphibious assault ships, and this has strengthened Russia’s intention to develop independently. Plans for a new amphibious assault ship.
▲ The internal public diagram of the new Russian amphibious assault ship shows that its own "capacity" is still quite large (picture from the Internet)
. According to the statement disclosed by the Russian side, the Russian domestic enterprise self-developed this Although the construction of the new Russian amphibious assault ship, code-named "23900", has been delayed by the epidemic, it has now successfully started construction at the Kerch Bay Shipyard in Russia, and its first batch of orders is two. Ship. From the current public information of the ship, it uses a typical all-pass flight deck design, with a displacement of 25,000 tons. It can carry 20 helicopters of various types and can carry 900 marines. And a corresponding number of air-cushioned landing craft, amphibious armored vehicles, etc., and equipped with shipborne weapon systems including the A-190 type 100mm fully automatic naval gun, the shipboard version of the "Dor" and the "Armor-SM" air defense weapon system. In addition, from most of the existing analysis, the new Russian amphibious assault ship may also retain a certain ability to use vertical/short-range fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft.
▲The concept of the "Husky 10" air-cushion landing craft developed by Russia, which may become the main equipment of Russia's new amphibious assault ship in the future (picture source: Internet)
Therefore, based on the above introduction, such a model The overall performance of the Russian-made amphibious assault ship with a displacement of 25,000 tons is basically the same as that of other countries’ amphibious assault ships in the same state of technology. In other words, the level has reached the level of the world's equivalent technology. level. According to Russia’s current plan, the first ship of this new type of amphibious assault ship will be in service around 2026, while the service date of the second ship will be around 2027, that is to say, the first ship in this century. Thirty years ago, if the Russian Navy went well, it would have at least two new amphibious assault ships. At that time, the Russian army's amphibious combat capability will also get a huge leap.
