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Sure, do that.
Is 40 a lot? That seems quite ambitious but I have no idea how long it takes to build one.
Edit: Russia's built ~16 of these Karakurt-class ships since 2018 lol. So no, it won't be 40 missle boats.
It's taken Russia over 10 years to just build a little over 10 stealth fighters. (And Ukraine has destroyed one)
Meanwhile the Netherlands alone has 24, and the U.S. has over 600.
Russia's high tech side of their military industrial complex is incredibly weak compared to the old USSR days, and even their low tech side is struggling.
They've been screwed since like the '60s because of the gap in microprocessor tech.
Yeah, let's face it: the USSR collapsed for a reason, and its MIC was already failing by the time it did.
Yeah I can believe they're getting 40 vessels in the next year if they include literally everything they're getting. They certainly aren't getting 40 corvettes.
It really depends on the kind of vessel though. China for instance has a ton of ships but less than tonnage than the US, and if you restrict that to ships that could realistically conduct long range opperations that tonnage is buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo even lower than the UK and Japan (not combined). So Russia could just be launching 40 new patrol boats next year, or maybe 2 actual ships and 38 patrol boats.
Depends. 40 RC sail boats? No, not very impressive. 40 supercarriers? Yes, very impressive.
At this point, I wouldn't put it past Russia to claim 40 RC sail boats as "new ships in the fleet".
No way they're replacing the bigger ones, like the Moskva. That one was built in a yard that's now in Ukraine, and Russia hasn't gotten that part back. Even if they did, Ukraine hadn't really maintained it.
It was also launched in 1979, and they haven't built anything that size since the USSR fell.
They'd have to rebuild the infrastructure needed to build the ship. These losses are irreplaceable.
iirc they did build one for Admiral Kuznetsov. It also left that dry dock not that long ago so it's open now. They're having trouble funding anything larger than the Adm. Gorshkov class though. Which is about 50 meters shorter. So even if they did decide to throw down a 180M long guided missile cruiser they wouldn't be able to fund it. In fact they've been trying to get something called the Lidar class going and the Russian Navy is just like, "Nyet."
I'd be willing to take a wild guess and say that at least 30+ of those new vessels are small support boats.
We put Kalashnikov on Sergey's rowboat, Ukraine cowers before invincible Russian engineering!
Well, they seem to be replenishing their submersible fleet in the Black Sea with lots of new under water vessels: for every ship they lose they get a new sub...
Yeah, except that per the Montreux Convention, because Turkey has recognized that Russia is “at war”, Russia is not allowed to transit any warships through the Bosporus Strait, so any new combat ship they make has to be made in the Black Sea.
Ships are expensive as hell and drones are comparatively cheap. Missiles too. Ships also take a month off Sundays to build in very obvious places because manufacturing lots of big stuff is pretty obvious to any intelligence analyst posting attention.
Are they building them in the black sea?
Good thing Putin is just as confused as whoever the next US President will be. Good thing these guys are in charge of the nukes.