Russian Karakurt class - progress is being made

At the end of August, the Russian Navy in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea commissioned the fifth boat of the Karakurt class (project 22800, small missile ship), the "Amur", equipped with eight Kalibr cruise missiles. The "Amur" is already equipped with the navalised Pantsir-M air defence system, a six-barrel 30mm calibre rotary cannon with eight FK 57E6 short-range anti-aircraft missiles (reload: 32). The keel was laid seven years ago at the Zelenodolsky shipyard near Kazan in Tatarstan, deep in the centre of Russia. The programme was running slowly due to the problematic production of the propulsion systems, admitted the commander, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, during his visit to the Caspian Flotilla - but progress was being made! Construction numbers 1 and 2, the boats "Mytishi" (ex-Uragan) and "Sovetsk" (ex-Tayfun) are assigned to the Baltic Fleet and are based in Kronstadt on the Baltic Sea. They have not yet been equipped with the Pantsir-M air defence system because it was not yet ready for deployment when the boats were accepted. "Askold" and "Tsyklon" have already been severely damaged by Ukrainian weapons and are temporarily not operational. But things are moving forward?

After all, four other Kalibr carriers are stationed in the Caspian Sea and can reach Ukrainian territory with the long range of the cruise missile: The frigate "Dagestan" (Gepard class, project 11661) and three corvettes of the first batch of the Bujan class (project 21631). Otherwise, some more valuable, mobile units from the Sevastopol base have crawled into the Caspian Sea. The Kilo-class submarines remain in the Black Sea, although they now only launch their attacks against Ukraine from the Sea of Azov.