On September 27, 2023, at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (ASZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a ceremony was held for the decommissioning and launching of the small Rzhev and Udomlya project 22800 missile ships under construction for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy (cipher "Karakurt"), with factory numbers 201 and 202 (side numbers "400" and "401"). These are the first two ships of the 22800 project out of four units being built at the ASZ.
The ceremony of the withdrawal from the workshop and launching of the small rocket ships "Rzhev" and "Udomlya" project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, with factory numbers 201 and 202. In the foreground is the small rocket ship Udomlya. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 27.09.2023 (c) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The event was attended by the Head of the Shipbuilding Department of the Main Command of the Russian Navy, Rear Admiral Ilyas Shigapov; the Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Mikhail Degtyarev; the head of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Alexander Zhornik, the head of the Surface Shipbuilding Department of the USC JSC Dmitry Pisarev, the General directors of the Amur Shipbuilding Plant PJSC Mikhail Borovsky and the designer of the CMKB JSCDiamond" Konstantin Golubev.
On the part of bmpd, we recall that these ships are being built in accordance with the contract signed on August 22, 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense for the construction of six small missile ships (MRCS) of the 22800 project, which are intended for the Pacific Fleet. Four of them should be built at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) with delivery by 2026, and two ships at JSC Vostochnaya Shipyard (Vladivostok) with delivery by 2023. The contract for the construction of two ships at the Eastern Shipyard was, however, cancelled in 2020.
The first two Pacific MRCS of project 22800 "Rzhev" and "Udomlya" of project 22800 with factory numbers 201 and 202 were laid at the ASZ on July 1, 2019. The third ship of this project "Ussuriysk" with factory number 204 was laid down at the ASZ on December 26, 2019, and the fourth "Pavlovsk" with factory number 203 was laid down on July 29, 2020.
At the laying ceremony of the Ussuriysk MRC on December 26, 2019, the director of the ASZ, Vladimir Kulakov, said that it was planned to deliver the small rocket ships ordered to the plant earlier than the contract deadlines: not by 2026, as originally planned, but two of the Rzhev and Udomlya MRCS laid down by the first - in 2023, and two more - "Ussuriysk" and "Pavlovsk", - in 2024. In reality, apparently, the first two MRCS will be commissioned no earlier than 2024. It is also reported that the completion and mooring tests of all MRCS after the descent will be carried out directly at the ASZ.
Thus, in total, a series of 16 ships of Project 22800 is being built for the Russian Navy at five different enterprises. MRK project 22800 (code "Karakurt") was designed by JSC "Central Marine Design Bureau "Almaz" (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK project 21631 (code "Buyan-M") developed by JSC "Zelenodolsk Design Bureau" in construction for the Russian Navy. However, 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 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 the Baltic 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.
In August 2016, the Ministry of Defense of Russia signed a contract for the construction of five serial small rocket ships of the project 22800 for the Russian Navy also with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk), with contract deadlines in 2019-2021. Since the Kerch shipyard "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 the structure of JSC "B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant", the construction of three out of five The MRC ordered under this contract is conducted in Kerch.
To date, of the five MRK project 22800 ordered to the Zelenodolsk Plant, only the Kerch-built lead ship Cyclone (factory number 801), which became part of the Black Sea Fleet on July 12, 2023, has been commissioned. The second Kerch MRK Askold (factory number 802) entered factory sea trials in October 2022, but has not yet been handed over to the Navy. The third Kerch MRK Amur (factory number 803) was launched on December 26, 2022. 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, and it was launched on June 30, 2023. On September 11, 2019, a Typhoon of the same type was laid in Zelenodolsk (factory number 805).
The ceremony of the withdrawal from the workshop and launching of the small rocket ships "Rzhev" and "Udomlya" project 22800 (code "Karakurt") under construction at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, with factory numbers 201 and 202. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 27.09.2023 (c) TASS, USC, ASZ, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and kom.city
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