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07-01-2024, 07:55 PM
In 2023, Russian navy added just 6,300 tons and ended the year with a total tonnage of 2,152,000.
World’s leading navy, U.S. Navy, last year grew by 32,000 tons to a new total of 7,393,000 tons; and the fast-growing Chinese navy added 50,000 tons to total 2,899,000 tons; the Russian fleet grew barely at all.
Russians would have added 17,700 tons last year through the new construction of a new frigate, corvettes, a minesweeper and submarines, but the Ukrainians destroyed Black Sea Fleet vessels together weighing 11,400 tons. It losing nearly as much tonnage as it built in 2023, Russian navy joins an exclusive and embarrassing club of stagnant or shrinking navies. The world’s greatest fleet UK is once, but in recent decades steadily has withered under mismanagement of successive govts. The 886,000-ton UK Royal Navy shrank in 2023, nothing new for what once a nos-1. The 356,000-ton Italian navy shrank, but that’s mostly due to a gap between the decommissioning of some older warships and commissioning of their new, and much larger, replacements.
Russian navy is the only navy can’t manage to grow mostly as it keeps losing ships in Ukraine. Last year, it fleet’s “woes in Black Sea have continued,” b'cos Ukrainian navy fleet with no big ships keeps destroying tonnage as Russians is building. its wartime losses for shipbuilding collapsed end of Soviet Union. It doesn’t help industry maritime as engines imported from Ukraine—engines Ukraine no longer sell. But Russian manage to build a submarines, but struggle to build surface warships heavier than is a few thousand tons.
Black Sea Fleet began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine with around 50 large warships including missile-cruiser Moskva, several frigates and corvettes, a dozen landing ships, diesel-electric submarines and a large flotilla of patrol boats,Russia Black Sea Fleet has lost—to Ukrainian drones and missiles—its cruiser, four amphibious ships, a submarine, a supply ship and several patrol boats and landing craft. In 2023 “the most dramatic loss by far was the destruction of the submarine Rostov-on-Don in drydock at Sevastopol," The sub displaced 3,100 tons.
against Ukrainian small fleet with only 1-warship, frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy, the frigate in Odesa initial attacked & sunk by Russian in Feb-2022 war. With Hetman sunk to the seafloor, Ukrainian navy became a new kind of navy, one mostly fights with drones and missiles, with a big assist from air force. In it's 23 mths of hard fighting.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-to-build/
World’s leading navy, U.S. Navy, last year grew by 32,000 tons to a new total of 7,393,000 tons; and the fast-growing Chinese navy added 50,000 tons to total 2,899,000 tons; the Russian fleet grew barely at all.
Russians would have added 17,700 tons last year through the new construction of a new frigate, corvettes, a minesweeper and submarines, but the Ukrainians destroyed Black Sea Fleet vessels together weighing 11,400 tons. It losing nearly as much tonnage as it built in 2023, Russian navy joins an exclusive and embarrassing club of stagnant or shrinking navies. The world’s greatest fleet UK is once, but in recent decades steadily has withered under mismanagement of successive govts. The 886,000-ton UK Royal Navy shrank in 2023, nothing new for what once a nos-1. The 356,000-ton Italian navy shrank, but that’s mostly due to a gap between the decommissioning of some older warships and commissioning of their new, and much larger, replacements.
Russian navy is the only navy can’t manage to grow mostly as it keeps losing ships in Ukraine. Last year, it fleet’s “woes in Black Sea have continued,” b'cos Ukrainian navy fleet with no big ships keeps destroying tonnage as Russians is building. its wartime losses for shipbuilding collapsed end of Soviet Union. It doesn’t help industry maritime as engines imported from Ukraine—engines Ukraine no longer sell. But Russian manage to build a submarines, but struggle to build surface warships heavier than is a few thousand tons.
Black Sea Fleet began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine with around 50 large warships including missile-cruiser Moskva, several frigates and corvettes, a dozen landing ships, diesel-electric submarines and a large flotilla of patrol boats,Russia Black Sea Fleet has lost—to Ukrainian drones and missiles—its cruiser, four amphibious ships, a submarine, a supply ship and several patrol boats and landing craft. In 2023 “the most dramatic loss by far was the destruction of the submarine Rostov-on-Don in drydock at Sevastopol," The sub displaced 3,100 tons.
against Ukrainian small fleet with only 1-warship, frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy, the frigate in Odesa initial attacked & sunk by Russian in Feb-2022 war. With Hetman sunk to the seafloor, Ukrainian navy became a new kind of navy, one mostly fights with drones and missiles, with a big assist from air force. In it's 23 mths of hard fighting.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-to-build/
