Most of the world’s leading navies are getting bigger by tonnage. But not the Russian navy. It’s struggling to grow at all, and for one main reason. The Ukrainian navy.
Couldn’t Russia still move some of its fleet through the deep water system?
Little shipbuilding capacity is no surprise, when taking into account that Ukraine was part of USSR’s capacity, and now Russia is attacking… well, that. Like, all those shipyards are not likely to get any materials from Azovstal for a while.
Couldn’t Russia still move some of its fleet through the deep water system?
Little shipbuilding capacity is no surprise, when taking into account that Ukraine was part of USSR’s capacity, and now Russia is attacking… well, that. Like, all those shipyards are not likely to get any materials from Azovstal for a while.
Some corvetts maybe, but anything has to sail down the Don, which has multiple locks within reach of Storm Shadow and similar systems.
Hm, 550Km operational range… nice.