June 30, 2023 in Zelenodolsk at JSC "Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky" (as part of JSC "Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation" group of companies of JSC "Ak Bars Holding Company") The ceremonial launching of the small rocket ship "Cloud" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Russian Navy with the factory number 804 took place. This is the first of two ships of the project 22800, which are being built directly at the Zelenodolsk plant. The ship is intended for the Black Sea Fleet.
Launching of the small rocket ship "Cloud" (factory number 804) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Russian Navy at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky. Zelenodolsk, 30.06.2023 (c) JSC "Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky"
The small rocket ship (MRC) "Cloud" is being built under a contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky for the construction of five serial MRCS of project 22800 for the Russian Navy. Since since the end of 2014 under the management of the Zelenodolsk plant named after A.M. Gorky (and now under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC "Shipbuilding Corporation "Ak Bars") the Kerch shipyard "Bay" is located (through the structure of JSC "B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant"), then the construction of the first three of the five MRCS ordered under this contract (with factory numbers 801 to 803) is carried out in Kerch, and only the last two (with factory numbers 804 and 805) - directly on Zelenodolsk SSZ.
The main MRK of the 22800 Cyclone project (factory number 801) under this contract was laid down without much publicity at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch on July 26, 2016, launched there on July 24, 2020, and in November 2021 went to factory sea trials. The second Askold MRK (factory number 802) was laid down in Kerch on November 18, 2016, launched there on September 21, 2021 and entered factory sea trials in October 2022. Both ships have not yet been transferred to the Navy. The third mechanical MRK Amur (factory number 803) was laid down on July 30, 2017 and launched on December 26, 2022. Initially, the contract deadlines for the delivery of these three ships were 2019-2020.
MRK "Cloud" (factory number 804) was laid directly at the Zelenodolsk GCC on February 26, 2019. In 2022, the technological descent of the MRK "Cloud" was carried out, but then it was again raised to the slipway of the plant.
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.
Recall that the small rocket ship (MRC) of project 22800 (cipher "Karakurt") was designed by JSC "Central Marine Design Bureau "Almaz" (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRC 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 (JSC 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 on December 17, 2018), "Sovetsk" (laid down under the name "Typhoon", factory number 252, html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> commissioned on October 12, 2019) and "Odintsovo" (factory number 253, laid under the name "Squall", commissioned on November 21, 2020). The fourth MRK Burya built on the Pella (factory number 257) was transferred to factory sea trials in October 2022, but has not yet been handed over to the Navy.
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 FSUE "Shipbuilding Plant "Sea" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to "Pella" for completion in November 2019 - May 2020.
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 launch of the first two of them is expected in 2023.
Launching of the small rocket ship "Cloud" (factory number 804) of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction for the Russian Navy at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky. Zelenodolsk, 30.06.2023 (c) JSC "Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky", RIA Novosti, zpravda.ru and www.business-gazeta.ru
