As reported, in October 2022, factory sea trials of two new small rocket ships of the project 22800 (code "Karakurt"), completed construction for the Russian Navy, were started at once. On October 15, the small rocket ship "Burya" (factory number 257), built by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella", made its first test run on the Baltic Sea. A little earlier, tests of the Askold MRC (factory number 802), built in Kerch at the B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant JSC (the management company for the Gulf Shipbuilding Plant LLC), were started on the Black Sea.
The Askold small rocket ship (factory number 802) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") built for the Russian Navy in Kerch during factory sea trials. Sevastopol, October 2022 (c) Telegram channel "Black Sea Fleet" / t.me/kchf_ruRecall that the MRK of project 22800 (cipher "Karakurt") was designed by JSC "Central Marine Design Bureau "Almaz" (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK of project 21631 (cipher "Buyan-M") developed by JSC "Zelenodolsk Design Bureau" in construction for the Russian Navy.
The Russian Ministry of Defense initially contracted 18 MRCS of the 22800 project from 2014, but in September 2020 canceled the contract for two units ordered by Vostochnaya Shipyard JSC in Vladivostok.
Due to the fact that the MRK project 22800 is equipped with the main power plant as part of high-speed diesel engines M507D-1, the difficulties of PJSC Zvezda (St. Petersburg) for the production of these engines in the required volumes have led to the fact that the project 22800 series has turned into a long-term construction, and the hulls of ships already launched have been idle for years in waiting for these engines.
The construction of the first seven MRCS of the 22800 project has been carried out since 2015 by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella, which has now commissioned the first three ships of this type that entered the Baltic Fleet - Mytishchi (laid under the name Hurricane, renamed in 2018, factory number 251, commissioned by the Navy December 17, 2018), "Sovetsk" (laid under the name "Typhoon", factory number 252, commissioned on October 12, 2019) and "Odintsovo" (factory number 253, laid under the name "Squall", commissioned on November 21, 2020).
The Burya MRC (factory number 257), which has now been put to the test, is the fourth ship built entirely on Pella. It was laid down there on December 24, 2016 and launched on October 23, 2018, but as a result was able to start testing only four years later - three years later than the contract period. The Tempest also became the second ship of this Pella construction project equipped with the ship's Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (Odintsovo was the first).
Three ships of project 22800 - "Storm" (factory number 254, planned to be renamed "Kozelsk", but it is unclear whether it was carried out), "Okhotsk" are in the delayed completion due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and problems with financing with unknown completion dates at the Pella plant (factory number 254, planned to be renamed "Kozelsk", but it is unclear whether it was carried out), "Okhotsk" (factory number 255) and "Whirlwind" (factory number 256), - the hulls of which were built at the FSUE "Shipbuilding Plant "Sea" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to "Pella" for completion in November 2019 - May 2020.
The Askold MRC, which has been tested on the Black Sea, is the second unit built under the contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk) for the construction of five serial MRCS of project 22800 for the Russian Navy. The Kerch Shipbuilding plant "Gulf" has been under the management of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and now it is under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC "Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation" (SCAB) through a "gasket" in the form of JSC "B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant" (existing under the same address as LLC "Shipbuilding plant "Bay"). Therefore, the construction of three of the five MRCS ordered under this contract is being carried out in Kerch. All five MRCS ordered by Zelenodolsk are equipped with ZRPC "Pantsir-M".
The main Zelenodolsk MRK of project 22800 under this contract "Cyclone" (factory number 801) was laid down without much publicity at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch on July 26, 2016 and launched on July 24, 2020. The factory sea trials of the Cyclone were started in Novorossiysk at the end of November 2021, but the ship has not yet completed the tests, although it is unofficially stated that this MRK will be handed over to the fleet by the end of 2022.
The second MRK of the Askold project 22800 built in Kerch (factory number 802) was laid there on November 18, 2016 and launched on September 21, 2021, and now it has been handed over for testing. Its commissioning is expected in the first half of 2023.
Also in Kerch, the construction of the third MRK "Amur" (factory number 803), laid on July 30, 2017, is underway. The contract deadlines for the delivery of these three Kerch ships were 2019-2020, but they have gone significantly "to the right".
On February 26, 2019, the MRK "Cloud" (factory number 804) was laid down at the Zelenodolsk SSZ, which became the first ship of the 22800 project, which is actually being built in Zelenodolsk. On September 11, 2019, a Typhoon of the same type was laid in Zelenodolsk (factory number 805). The contract deadline for the delivery of ships with factory numbers 804 and 805 was 2021, however, apparently, in reality this will happen no earlier than 2024.
Four more MRCS of project 22800 are being built at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant JSC (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Pavlovsk and Ussuriysk (factory numbers 201 to 204).
The Burya small rocket ship (factory number 257) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") built for the Russian Navy at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella" OJSC in Kronstadt before entering the factory sea trials, 12.10.2022 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru Unfinished small rocket ships of the 22800 project located at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant "Pella", from left to right:
"Whirlwind" (factory number 256),"Okhotsk" (factory number 255) and "Storm" (factory number 254) project 22800, 22.10.2022 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru
