{"id":188776,"date":"2019-05-24T07:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188776"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:33:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:33:01","slug":"russias-30-million-missile-corvettes-have-four-times-the-weapons-range-of-us-2-billion-destroyers-and-cruisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188776","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s $30 Million Missile Corvettes Have Four Times the Weapons Range of US $2 Billion Destroyers and Cruisers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marko Marjanovic \u2013 Checkpoint Asia May 22, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Russian navy launches cruise missiles from one of its corvettes in the Caspian Sea at Islamic State militants in Aleppo, Syria. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia is adding warships to its navy faster than the US<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. The reason for that is simple, while the US is pouring $14 billion into the USS Gerald Ford carrier the Russians are building corvettes. A class of warships between 500 and 1,000 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only are they small, they are cheap. The newest class, Karakurt, sets back the Russian budget 2 billion rubles or just over $30 million at the exchange rates.<\/span><\/p>\n

These sound like puny vessels, except here is the thing: they can hit an enemy surface ship from four times the distance a US destroyer (Arleigh-Burke) or cruiser (Ticonderoga) can.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Four different classes of corvettes are being built. Buyan-M-class of which 15 are planned and 10 are already serving.\u00a0Steregushchiy-class of which 24 are planned and 6 are serving. Karakurt-class of which 18 are planned and one is already serving. And Gremyashchiy-class of which 4 are planned and 1 is already serving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except the\u00a0Steregushchiy-class all these vessels may fire the Kalibr and the P-800 Onyx anti-ship missiles with the respective range of 660 and 600 kilometers.\u00a0Steregushchiy carries a lighter Kh-35 missile with the range of \u201conly\u201d 300 kilometers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arleigh-Burkes and\u00a0Ticonderogas fire the Harpoon anti-ship missile with the range of just 130 kilometers. Even if the US had heavier anti-ship missiles ready its primary \u201csurface combatants\u201d could not fire them because their multi-functional weapons cells would be too small to accommodate them.\u00a0An\u00a0Arleigh-Burke costs $2 billion, the older\u00a0Ticonderogas cost $1 billion at the time they were built. Both classes displace around 10,000 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Arleigh-Burkes do fire the old subsonic Tomahawk flying bomb, but that is for blowing up Afghan weddings, it does not have an anti-ship capability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of Russia\u2019s older\u00a0corvettes are specialized for anti-submarine warfare, but 25 Tarantul-class, 4 Bora-class, and 3 Buyan-class vessels are likewise capable of firing the P-800 or Kalibr missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not bad for vessels light enough that they can be switched out between the Baltic, Black and Caspian fleets as need arises by navigating Russia\u2019s network of rivers and canals.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just incredible how derelict the US Navy has been in missing out on the entire naval missile revolution, which to make things worse isn\u2019t even a new thing. The technology, albeit initially in a cruder form, has been around for 50-60 years now.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also strange because when it comes to aerial warfare the US military has been obsessed with long-range missile kills. But if anything it should be far more feasible for a beyond-the-horizon missile to hit a slow-moving ship, than a far faster jet, especially a fighter which can maneuver tightly to evade it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weapons aboard outrange US ships ten times their weight at a fraction of the cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188776","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=188776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188805,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188776\/revisions\/188805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}