Russia is about to have a new flagship to replace the sunken flagship?

TASS said that out of the 3 ships operating in the remote sea area of ​​this project, Black Sea Fleet (Admiral Makarov, Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen), the choice was in favor of Admiral Makarov. However, there is no official information on this yet.

The change of the flagship has been discussed since the fall of 2021. But then it was mentioned that the newest amphibious assault helicopter carrier of the Project 23900 Mitrofan Moskalenko, is being built at the shipyard. Zaliv in Kerch. The infrastructure serving it has been prepared for deployment in Sevastopol.

And now, the multi-purpose frigate Admiral Makarov has the potential to become the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

The ship was built in Kaliningrad at the Baltic Yantar Shipyard. She joined the Black Sea Fleet in December 2017. The destroyers The ship is named in honor of Russia’s outstanding naval commander, polar explorer and shipbuilder, Vice Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov. He went down in history as the founder of the theory of ship survivability, the inventor of the icebreaker, and the developer of the Russian semaphore alphabet. He died at the age of 55 at Port Arthur when the battleship Petropavlovsk was hit by a Japanese mine.

Admiral Makarov, like the other two frigates of the Admiral series, is designed to destroy surface targets and submarines, as well as to patrol and protect sea lanes. It is equipped Kalibr cruise missile-NK, Shtil-1 self-defense missile system, A-190 100 mm cannon, anti-aircraft artillery, missile and torpedo launchers, and can carry Ka-27 (or Ka-31) helicopters on deck. The ship was several times a member of the permanent group of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.

Currently, the Admiral Makarov battleship is engaged in special military operations in Ukraine. In particular, there is evidence that in March, together with other ships of the Russian Navy, Admiral Makarov supported the attack of Russian ground units in the area. Mariupol by artillery fire from the sea. On the night of March 22, not far from the port of Ilyichevsk, the ship detected and used the Shtil-1 anti-aircraft missile to hit the Ukrainian submersible Neteshyn, which was conducting sea mines in the Odessa coast.

At that time, the media and social networks reported that on the afternoon of May 6, a Russian ship was shot down near Serpent Island by a Neptune missile, and was believed to be the Admiral Makarov. They even cite a video and photo of a burning ship in the black smoke as “evidence”. However, the fictitious “victory” was revealed very quickly.