Tuesday 11 September 2018

"Admiral Gorshkov" project 22350 frigate has arrived at Northern Fleet base

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Frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" arrived in the main base of the Northern Fleet


CAMTO, 10 September. The main frigate of project 22350 "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov", accepted into the combat composition of the Navy on July 28, 2018, arrived at the main base of the Northern Fleet - Severomorsk.

The ship is included in the division of the missile ships of the Northern Fleet - the largest combination of the Russian Navy surface ships, which also includes the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov of the Soviet Union Fleet and the heavy nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great.

The crew of the frigate was welcomed by Rear Admiral Feliks Menkov, commander of the division of missile ships. He noted that the ship has successfully passed all the running and acceptance tests, has a great potential to become one of the best ships in the fleet. In the near future, the crew will have scheduled combat training in the base and at sea, and then - accomplishing the tasks of long-range campaigns.

The Frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" is the first surface ship carrying the cruise missiles "Caliber" in the Northern Fleet. He repeatedly made interflot transitions from the Baltic Sea to the Barents and White Seas to test complexes of antiaircraft, missile-artillery and mine-torpedo armament in the naval ranges of the Northern Fleet. For the entire period of state tests, the lead ship of Project 22350 has covered more than 80,000 miles, 62 combat exercises have been completed, including 16 firing by the main missile system.

In 2017 and 2018, the frigate took part in the Main Naval Parade in the Kronstadt raid in the Gulf of Finland, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

Source: armstrade.org

Source: southfrontorg

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