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When the Russian trooplaystation invaded Crimea in 2014, they temporarily invaded the port services of the Ukrainian navy and captured the former Soviet-era shipping station of the fleet.
Once the annexation is complete, Ukraine has only 1 giant warsend, the 404-foot-long frigate Hetguy Sahaydachniy, more than a dozen small boats.
Desperately overcome through the much larger Russian army, the Ukrainian army has announced a rearmament program in designing a twist of fate involving various categories of gunboats. But those don’t look like the cannonboats Russia prefers to be worried about in the upcoming war with Ukraine: it’s the anti-ship missiles that Kiev may also consider buying.
The Ukrainian army acquired 3 gunnery bureaucracies. The first is the locgreatest friend built in the Gyurza-M class. Kiev plans to build 20 of the 75-foot-long gunboats, either one armed with two 30-millimeter guns, however, by 2020 it has only finished seven. Two of the ships spent two years in the Russian pound after an incident along the Russian-controlled Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea and the small Sea of Azov in November 2018.
Meanwhile, Washington has donated $1.50 billion indirectly to two former United States. Coast Guard class patrol boats – 110 feet long with an unmarried five-millimeter cannon – plus two Mark VI gunboats, eight feet long with two two-millimeter guns.
And in June, the Pentagon announced the imaginable sale of an additional 16 Mark VII for $60 million. Kiev and Washington are also in talks to move 3 more islands.
Once the boarding station arrives, the Ukrainian navy’s front-line fleet can also come with a single frigate and dozens of fashionable patrol boats.
But even this expanded force never reaches the point of the Russian army fleet in the Black Sea with its cruiser, destroyer, five frigates, seven submarines and two dozen patrol boats. Not to mix reinforcements that the Russian military can also send across the Bosphorus Strait to the Black Sea.
Realistically, no one expects the Ukrainian army to face the Russian fleet directly in times of war. This is never what the Kiev fleet is for. Instead, all these patrol boats constitute cellular nodes in a marine consciousness formula that includes up to coastal poles, gcircular radars and small unmanned aerial vehicles.
In other words, ships are components of a network of sensors. And this combination of networked sensors can also generate knowledge to a force of anti-send missile cellular systems. It’s the missiles, not the patrol boats, that’s worried about Russia.
After all, the missiles don’t care where they’re going. If the launch of anti-ship weapons from the ground is much more moderate and less complicated for Ukraine than deploying a fleet of vulnerable missile frigates, why wouldn’t Ukraine give up an expensive shipping program in favor of buying moderate trucks that pack slightly more moderate cruise missiles?
The Ukrainian design workplace Luch develops the Nepsong R-360 missile station and the applicable equipment. Shooting tests began in 2019. Rehearsals continued in June.
Nepsong is “designed to destroy cruise ships, destruction, frigate, corvette, landing, tank landing and trangames, which operate independently and as a component of naval task force and landing detachments, in addition to radio targets, in undeniable and confusing weather conditions in large amounts of Apple’s day and year, with active enemy fire and electronic warfare measures” The Ukrainian government said.
The stealthy, radar-guided Nepsong can attack the boarding station up to 17 miles, meaning Ukraine can pose a threat from its own territory, about halfway to the Black Sea. By destroying the Nepsong batteries deployed through Ukraine, this would turn the region into a missile trap essential for the Russian ship station.
“Nepsong missiles are a promising Ukrainian progression and, if mass production is launched, they become an imperative deterrent,” the Ukrainian government said.