It would probably take Russia ten years to replace the frigates. If Ukraine can take out the five Black Sea frigates. The USA has over 100 (11 air craft carriers, 11 assault ships – basically smaller air craft carriers, 22 cruisers and 70 destroyers). Russia has nine ships that are destroyer or larger that are active. Russia has 9 frigates (1800-5400 tons, most are about 3000 tons). Russia has six 7500 ton destroyers and four more under repair. Russia has one 25000 ton Battlecruiser that is operational and the other is also being repaired. This is being repaired after a dock sank and a large crane broke through the deck. The Black Sea Fleet has about five Frigates.
The three 11,500-ton Slavas were designed around launchers that can hold 16 SS-N-12 Sandbox anti-ship cruise missiles. Moskva was commissioned into the Soviet Navy in 1982 and is one of three Slava-class guided-missile cruisers. They are based on the Soviet AS-20 ‘Kayak’ anti-ship missile which is similar to the U.S.-built Harpoon missile. They finished up two larger ships they started building before the fall of the USSR. Russia’s Navy has not added a ship or submarine over 5400 tons since 1999. The Russian Defense Ministry said that a fire had caused munitions to explode and the crew had been fully evacuated. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the damage to the RTS Moskva. Ukrainians claimed to hit the ship with a missile strike. The Russian Navy’s Black Sea flagship has suffered major damage and the crew has abandoned the ship.
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