The Navy of the Russian Federation is the successor to the Navy of the USSR and the Russian Empire, and therefore has a glorious history and long traditions. Today, ships of the Navy under the Andreevsky flag not only provide the naval presence of the Russian power in the oceans, but also participate in humanitarian actions around the world.
The main task of the Russian Navy is to protect the sovereignty of the country outside its land territory, as well as to create conditions for ensuring calm maritime activities in the oceans. There are other tasks that are set before the ships, they are all diverse and have their own characteristics.
Based on this, the Russian Navy has always been present with a variety of equipment and ships. Classification of ships depends on their specialization, type of power plant and displacement. Vessels are divided into classes depending on their purpose, and those in turn are divided into subclasses.
The division of ships is carried out by rank. The ranking depends on the tactical and technical properties of the vessel and its immediate purpose. The Russian Navy has four ranks of ships, the first of which is considered the highest. The structure of the Navy of Russia includes warships, special purpose ships, raid and support vessels.
General characteristics and types of vessels of the 1st rank
This class of ships includes submarines, as well as large surface ships. All vessels of the first rank have precedence over the others in matters of supply, acquisition and in terms of ceremonial procedures.
Types of ships of the first rank:
- Aircraft carrier - a large surface ship designed to provide air cover, landing forces, air strikes on enemy ships and coastal coastal defense. Aircraft carriers are equipped with means to ensure the placement and operation of aircraft.
- The cruiser is a large combat surface ship designed to perform the tasks of destroying warships, defending their warships and convoys, providing fire support to the coastal flanks of the ground forces and ensuring the landing of naval assault forces. The cruiser is armed with various types of missile, mine-torpedo, artillery, anti-submarine weapons of various calibers.
- The destroyer is a large combat surface ship, with tasks similar to a cruiser. The main armament of the destroyer is a strike missile system and air defense systems.
- Submarine - an underwater combat ship with the main mine-torpedo or missile weapons.
- An anti-submarine ship is a surface combat ship whose mission is to search, track and destroy enemy submarines. The main armament of the anti-submarine ship are sonar and anti-submarine systems.
- Landing ship of the 1st rank - a surface ship designed to transport military equipment and personnel of naval landing and ensure its landing and fire support.
Class 1 Ship Subclasses
Ships of the first rank make up the main striking force of the Russian Navy, therefore their classification is the most extensive, with extensive subclasses of ships. In particular, cruisers are represented by heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers with a displacement of more than 25, 000 tons. It is these ships of the Navy that demonstrate the power of the country on the international arena.
Also in the line should be noted heavy nuclear missile cruisers operating on a nuclear installation. These ships are based on 2 helicopters and an attack guided missile system, capable of destroying large enemy surface ships.
Missile cruisers are mainly deployed in remote areas of the oceans. Nuclear submarines are capable of hitting a large coastal target from a depth of 400-600 meters at ranges up to 8250 km.
For this, the submarine is equipped with a long-range missile system D-9R with 16 R-29R missiles, D-9RMU2 with 16 R-29RMU2 Sineva missiles and D-19M with 16 Bulava missiles. And also it has at its disposal 533-mm torpedo tubes designed to destroy large coastal targets from the underwater position.
General characteristics and types of ships of the 2nd rank
The second rank ship is a battleship with a displacement of 1, 500 to 5, 000 tons. Grade 2 vessels have a guise, which when parked rises on the bow flagpole. The purpose of the ships of the second rank is to carry out defensive and offensive military operations in the far sea zone. Moreover, the ship can fight both independently and as part of formations.
Class 2 ships include:
- A patrol vessel whose main tasks include guarding a caravan of warships and transport vessels from attacks by submarines, light surface forces and aircraft at crossings. But still, the "guard" is a multi-purpose combat ship with artillery, rocket, mine, anti-submarine weapons.
- Missile vessels designed to defeat enemy surface-based navigational aids in the waters of closed seas, as well as in the near sea zone.
- Special-purpose submarines to destroy enemies.
- Landing ships, the tasks of which include the transportation of military equipment and marine corps.
General characteristics and types of vessels of rank 3
Ships of rank 3 are small vessels. They are designed to defeat any military naval equipment of the enemy in the waters of closed seas and transport personnel and military equipment. The main armament of the ships - air defense systems and missile systems.
Types of ships of rank 3:
- Small rocket ship.
- Small artillery ship with artillery weapons of 100 mm caliber.
- Small anti-submarine ship.
- Small landing ship.
- Minesweeper.
Artillery vessels provide fire support for naval landing, and anti-submarine ships find, track and destroy enemy submarines. Landing ships land marines on an unequipped shore in places of shallow water.
Minesweepers as special-purpose surface ships detect and trawl bottom and sea anchor mines. The tasks of the minesweeper also include conducting the remaining ships through the mined areas.
