The second serial project 22800 "Karakurt", will be named "Mercury"

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Became known "Karakurt", which will be named in honor of the heroic brig "Mercury"


February 14, 2019 at 23:59 Topic: Industry

The second serial small rocket ship of the project 22800, the cipher "Karakurt", will be named in honor of the heroic Russian brig "Mercury". Mil.Press FlotProm was informed about this by the Almaz Central Securities and Design Bureau and the Pella shipbuilding plant in Leningrad.

In the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Mil.Press FlotProm journalist was told that the ship under construction on the Pella will receive an honorary name. 

Representatives of the design bureau and the shipyard-builder clarified that we are talking about the third pledged (second serial) IRC project 22800. According to preliminary data, he will go to the Black Sea Fleet. 

February 9 at the 48th Assembly of the St. Petersburg Maritime Assembly on the renaming of one of the "Karakurts" in honor of the Russian brigstated Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Korolev.
"The name" Mercury "received the newest small rocket ship of the project 22800 under construction, equipped with high-precision weapons, - quotesQueen newspaper "Red Star". - I have already signed an order for the name. I am sure that the crew of this ship will be proud of the service on it. "
The commander-in-chief also reported on the preparation by Russian President Vladimir Putin of a decree on assigning the aft St. George flag to the ship Mercury. This will be a precedent in the modern fleet, the press service of the St. Petersburg Maritime Assembly noted. 

At the same time, Pella has not yet received from the Navy any documents on renaming Karakurts, including the head MRK of the series, pledged as Uragan and later renamed Mytischi. This publication told an industry source familiar with the situation.

A researcher at the Central Naval Museum, who wished to remain anonymous, told Mil.Press FlotProm that in the history of the Russian Navy, the name “Memory of Mercury” was given to three ships of the Russian Imperial Navy and a small hydrograph of the Navy of the USSR January 2001 under the flag of Ukraine). He added that Emperor Nicholas I, on July 29, 1829, signed a decree granting the flag to the brig "Mercury" with the sign of St. George the Great Martyr and Victorious. " When the ship came to disrepair, it should have been built exactly the same, "continuing this ... until later times". Until now, a copy of "Mercury", which served until 1857, no. “Thus, the tradition that Nicholas I wanted to build does not exist yet,” the historian concluded.


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The 20-gun brig "Mercury", built in 1820, on February 9, 1829, won a victory in an unequal battle with two Turkish battleships, the 74- and 110-gun guns. The brig was commanded by Alexander Kazarsky, who was then in the rank of lieutenant commander. 

The future "Mercury" was laid as a "Flurry" on July 29, 2016, he received the factory number 253. The ship was launched on May 5, 2018. 

Small rocket ships of the "Karakurt" type are designed by the Almaz Central Maritime Design Bureau. The length of the ship is 60 meters, width - 10 meters, draft - 4 meters. The maximum speed is 30 knots, cruising range is 2500 miles, autonomy is 15 days. 

"Karakurt" will receive a 76-mm automatic universal gun mount and a 30-mm anti-aircraft gun mount AK-630M. In the superstructure of the ships will be placed a strike complex with an eight-container installation for high-precision cruise missiles “Caliber-NK”. Starting with the "Mercury", these ships will equip the Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and gun systems. 

Total Russian Navy plans to get 18 "Karakurts." 

Dmitry Zhavoronkov 

Source: flotprom.ru

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