Experts predict inevitable collapse of Russian Navy
Extreme measures will be required to deal with the critical problems faced by the Russian above-water shipbuilding industry, 3rd rank captain Maxim Klimov wrote on the website VPK.name.
He claims that the “short-range ships are worn, outdated, and have effectively lost combat significance,” and that the “long-range ships are outdated, worn, expensive to run, and remain only a few units”. By the start of the 2020s, Klimov believes that this will lead to an inevitable navy “collapse”. The expert is also critical of the new projects and the upgrading of the above-water vessels.
In order to deal with the mentioned problems, Klimov believes that the Navy and the defense industry “are in critical need of massive series of effective ships – both for short and long range”.
In September, 1st rank captain Konstantin Sivkov said that the US Navy’s dominance in the ocean zone is indisputable. In March, the specialist noted that the American fleet has 12 times as many aircraft carriers as Russia’s, 6.5 times as many cruisers, five times as many destroyers and four times as many multipurpose nuclear submarines. In December 2017, the expert pointed out the inadequate number of “full-fledged combat capable ships in the far sea and ocean zones” in the Russian fleet’s possession.