On December 21, 2024, a solemn ceremony of admission to the Russian Navy and the raising of the St. Andrew's flag took place in Kaspiysk on the small rocket ship "Cloud" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 804. The ship was built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (as part of JSC Shipbuilding Corporation Ak Bars) in Zelenodolsk, but due to wartime circumstances, he underwent replenishment and testing in the Caspian Sea, although he was formally enlisted in the Black Sea Fleet. She became the sixth ship of the project 22800, commissioned by the Russian Navy.
The Russian Navy commissioned the small rocket ship "Cloud" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 804, built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky. Kaspiysk, 12/21/2024 (c) A frame from the report of the Rossiya 24 TV channel
The Cloud is the fourth unit built under the contract signed on August 5, 2016 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk) for the construction of five serial small missile ships (MRCS) of Project 22800 for the Russian Navy, and at the same time became the first ship of this type directly built in Zelenodolsk. The construction of the first three of the five MRCS ordered under this contract was carried out in Kerch at the Zaliv shipyard, which has been under the control of JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and is now under the control of the head office of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation through the structure of JSC B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant. Initially, the contractual delivery dates for all five ships ordered under this contract were 2019-2021.
Initially, presumably, all five ships of the 22800 project, ordered by the Zelenodolsk SSZ, were intended for the Pacific Fleet. However, according to a statement by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, at the flag-raising ceremony at the MRK Cyclone on July 12, 2023, all these five ships were transferred to the Black Sea Fleet.
The lead MRC of the 22800 Cyclone project (serial number 801) under this contract was laid down without much publicity at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch on July 26, 2016. The MRK Cyclone was launched in Kerch on July 24, 2020, and in September 2021 the ship was towed from Kerch to Novorossiysk for testing and commissioning. At the end of November 2021, the Cyclone entered factory sea trials, but the ship's testing process dragged on for more than a year and a half. The MRK was eventually accepted into the Navy on July 12, 2023. On May 19, 2024, the Cyclone was sunk in Sevastopol by ATACMS tactical missiles fired by the armed forces of Ukraine.
The second Askold MRK (serial 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. However, on November 4, 2023, the Askold, which had not yet been commissioned, was severely damaged by a Scalp-EG air cruise missile fired by the armed forces of Ukraine, while standing against the wall of the Zaliv plant in Kerch. The ship is currently undergoing renovation at the Zaliv plant, the end date of which is unknown.
The third Kerch MRK Amur (serial number 803) was laid down on July 30, 2017 and launched on December 26, 2022. Factory sea trials of the ship began in December 2023. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces missile strikes on Kerch, it was decided to transfer all Navy ships under construction from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. As a result, in April 2024, the Amur MRC, along with the similar type of the Tucha MRC (factory number 804), were transferred from Novorossiysk via inland waterways to undergo testing and commissioning on the Caspian Sea to Kaspiysk. There, the Amur MRK was commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on August 26, 2024. Like the now-commissioned MRK "Cloud", it can be expected that both of these ships will remain in the Caspian Sea until the end of hostilities with Ukraine.
MRK "Cloud" (factory number 804) was html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was laid down on February 26, 2019 at the Zelenodolsk SSZ, becoming the first ship of Project 22800, which was actually built in Zelenodolsk. It was launched on June 30, 2023 and towed from Zelenodolsk to Novorossiysk in the fall of 2023, and then in April 2024 to the Caspian Sea, where it is now part of the fleet.
On September 11, 2019, the Typhoon MRC of the same type (serial number 805) was laid down in Zelenodolsk, which was launched on May 7, 2024. In September 2024, it was also towed by inland waterways from Zelenodolsk to a transfer base in Kaspiysk.
The MRK of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") was designed by JSC Central Marine Design Bureau Almaz (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK of project 21631 (code "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 in 2014, but in September 2020 cancelled the contract for two units ordered by Vostochnaya Verf JSC in Vladivostok.
Due to the fact that the Project 22800 MRCS are equipped with a main power plant consisting of high-speed M507D-1 diesel engines, the difficulties of PJSC Zvezda (St. Petersburg) in producing these engines in the required volumes led to the fact that the project 22800 series turned into a long-term construction, and the already launched ship hulls 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 into the Baltic Fleet, the Mytishchi (it was laid under the name Uragan, renamed in 2018, serial number 251, commissioned by the Navy on December 17, 2018), Sovetsk (laid down under the name Typhoon, factory number 252, commissioned on October 12, 2019) and Odintsovo (factory number 253, laid down under the name Squall, [...] commissioned on November 21, 2020). The fourth MRK Burya built on the Pella (serial 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 - Kozelsk (serial number 254, was laid under the name Storm), Okhotsk (serial number 255) and Whirlwind - are in delayed completion at the Pella plant due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and financing problems. (serial number 256), - the hulls of which were built at the FSUE "Morye Shipbuilding Plant" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to the Pella for completion in November 2019 - May 2020. According to recent reports, the delivery of these MRCS is now planned to be postponed to 2026-2030.
Four more MRCS of project 22800 are being built at Amur Shipbuilding Plant JSC (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where they were laid down in 2019-2020 - Rzhev, Udomlya, Storm (laid down under the name Pavlovsk) and Uragan (laid down under the name Ussuriysk") (factory numbers 201 to 204). The first two of them, Rzhev and Udomlya, were launched on September 27, 2023, and in October 2024, the Rzhev MRK was towed from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a transfer base in Vladivostok.
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The ceremony of raising the Naval flag of the Russian Federation on the small rocket ship "Cloud" of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with factory number 804, built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky. Kaspiysk, 12/21/2024 (c) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
