Instead of "Askold": Russia launched a new carrier "Caliber" into the Black Sea
Date: 2023-12-10 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR
Instead of the Askold corvette destroyed in Kerch, the Russian Federation transported a new ship from Tatarstan.
As Defense Express reports with reference to an infographic by OSINT analyst MT_Anderson, on December 2, the Cyclone missile corvette, introduced into the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was in the waters of temporarily occupied Sevastopol. At the same time, the Askold corvette, destroyed during a missile attack on November 4, 2023, was undergoing repairs at the Zaliv plant in temporarily occupied Kerch as of December 3, 2023. At the same time, the Russians covered from above those parts of the Askold hull that suffered the greatest destruction.
Of greatest interest is the photograph taken on December 5 in Novorossiysk, in which two missile corvettes of Project 22800 Karakurt: Amur (completed and already passed tests, but not yet accepted into the Russian Black Sea Fleet), and presumably the ship Tucha (transported to Novorossiysk inland waterways).
The corvette "Tucha" was built at the shipyard in the Russian city of Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan), on the banks of the Volga. Therefore, it is quite logical to assume that the Russians drove the new carrier of the Caliber, instead of the virtually destroyed corvette Askold, to Novorossiysk via the Volga-Don Canal. The corvette "Tucha" was launched in Zelenodolsk in July 2023.
