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Sources: Project 22350 advanced frigates will be able to carry up to 24 Zircon missiles

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 Sources: Project 22350 advanced frigates will be able to carry up to 24 Zircon missiles. - Army and OPK - TASS:

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According to the agency's interlocutors, the Admiral Amelko and Admiral Chichagov laid down in 2019 will receive the same armament
Frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" Yuri Smityuk / TASS
MOSCOW, April 17. / TASS /. The seventh and eighth frigates of project 22350, which are planned to be laid at the Severnaya Verf shipyard at the end of April, will be able to carry 24 shock missiles on board, including hypersonic Zircons. The fifth and sixth ships of the same type, laid down last spring, will receive the same weaponry, two sources in the military-industrial complex told TASS.

 The first two frigates of Project 22350, the Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Kasatonov, and the third and fourth ships, Admiral Golovko and Admiral Isakov, laid down in 2012-2013, have 16 launchers for launch shock rockets.

 “A new pair of frigates will be built according to an improved project with significantly enhanced armament: the ships will receive 24 vertical launchers of the 3S-14 universal ship’s firing complex (UKSK), which can use Caliber and Onyx cruise missiles and Zircon hypersonic.” "Admiral Amelko" and "Admiral Chichagov," laid down last year, will receive the composition of weapons, said one of the agency’s interlocutors.

 Another source confirmed this information to TASS, noting that "the ships managed to allocate space under the third section of the UKKS for eight cells with a slight change in displacement."

 He added that the weight and size characteristics of Zircon missiles allow them to fire from the same launchers as the Caliber and Onyx cruise missiles. “If necessary, it will be possible to load up to 24 Zircon missiles per frigate. Such an ammunition makes sense for the fight against aircraft carrier multipurpose groups,” the source explained.

 TASS does not have official confirmation of the information provided by the sources.

 The most powerful fleet ships
Frigates of project 22350 with enhanced weapons in the near future will become one of the most powerful ships of the Russian Navy. The fleet of surface ships comparable in terms of strike weapons today includes the 1144 Peter the Great heavy nuclear missile cruiser with 20 Granit anti-ship supersonic missiles and the 1164 cruiser with 16 cruise missiles each. A larger set of strike missiles on board than Project 22350 will be able to receive the Admiral Nakhimov cruiser of the same type, being upgraded to Peter the Great, developed destroyers of the Leader type or project 22350M frigates.

 As TASS previously reported, the seventh and eighth frigates of project 22350 are planned to be laid at the Severnaya Verf shipyard on April 28. In parallel, two universal landing ships should be laid down at the Zaliv plant in Crimea, as well as two submarines of Project 885M Yasen-M in Severodvinsk on Sevmash. Bookmark date can be carried forward for a day or two.

 The lead frigate of Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov is currently in combat service as part of the Navy, and the second frigate of the Admiral Kasatonov project is completing state tests. “Admiral Gorshkov” at the beginning of this year was the first of the fleet’s ships to use the Zircon hypersonic missile. The frigate fired the latest missile from the Barents Sea at a coastal target at a distance of more than 500 km.
The next ship, “Aircraft Carrier Killer,” is ready to launch
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