{"id":123099,"date":"2015-10-17T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=123099"},"modified":"2015-10-20T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T07:16:01","slug":"this-tiny-russian-warship-just-shocked-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=123099","title":{"rendered":"This tiny Russian warship just shocked the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Axe — War is Boring Oct 10, 2015<\/h1>\n
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A Buyan-class corvette, part of Russia’s Caspian Sea Flotilla<\/p><\/div>\n

On Oct. 7, four warships of the Russian navy\u2019s Caspian Sea flotilla fired<\/a><\/strong><\/span> 26 SS-N-30A land-attack cruise missiles at rebel forces in western Syria, a thousand miles away.<\/span><\/p>\n

The raid shocked foreign observers \u2014 not the least because the ships involved were so \u2026 tiny. \u201cOne of the biggest surprises for Russia-watchers was the small size of the ships that launched the missiles \u2014 1,000-ton ships,\u201d said Eric Wertheim, author of Combat Fleets of the World<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. \u201cThat\u2019s really small.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacking ships were Dagestan<\/em>, Grad Sviyazhsk<\/em>, Veliky Ustyug<\/em> and Uglich<\/em>. The latter three are Buyan<\/em>-class missile boats, 203 feet long and displacing 950 tons of water. Dagestan<\/em> is a 335-foot, 1,900-ton Gepard<\/em>-class frigate. All four ships entered service in just the last few years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russian Caspian Sea flotilla<\/p><\/div>\n

For perspective, bear in mind that the smallest U.S. Navy surface warship to possess an equivalent weapon, the Tomahawk cruise missile, is an Arleigh Burke<\/em>-class destroyer that\u2019s 500 feet long and displaces 9,000 tons. And America\u2019s Littoral Combat Ship frigates, which displace 3,000 tons, carry only small, short-range missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Wertheim, Russian naval design philosophy has always emphasized firepower. But it\u2019s worth noting that the four ships that launched the cruise missiles are all in the landlocked Caspian Sea. They don\u2019t deploy anywhere, so they don\u2019t need fuel and living spaces for long voyages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russian cruise missile launch from ships in the Caspian Sea to targets in Syria<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. navy ships that fire similar missiles weigh in at 9,000 tons. In contrast the Russian ships weigh of that a fraction but punch way above their weight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":123103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,95,91,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-russia","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123125,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123099\/revisions\/123125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}