The frigate "Admiral Makarov" will join the Union Navy in the Mediterranean sea
Black sea fleet frigate "Admiral Makarov" will join the Union Navy in the Mediterranean sea. About it told the head of Department of information support of the black sea fleet captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.
Today the Ship left Sevastopol and headed for the Straits, he said.
According Ruleva, in preparation for the trip the Crew of the frigate conducted exercises: worked for swimming and maneuvering in areas of high shipping activity, performed artillery shooting at sea and air targets, worked defeat a simulated enemy missile complex " Caliber-NK ". On the frigate "Admiral Makarov" Ship "Admiral Makarov" was named after the Russian naval commander and scientist, Vice-Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov. It laid on the Baltic shipyard "Yantar" in February 2012, launched in September 2015. State validation of the frigate began in the fall of next year in the Baltic and Barents seas.
Project 11356 frigates have a displacement of four thousand tons, speed speed 30 knots, autonomy of 30 days. The crew of the ship is 200 people.
"Admiral Makarov" armed with cruise missiles "Caliber-NK" anti-aircraft missile complex "Shtil-1" gun mount A-190 100 mm caliber, anti-aircraft artillery, jet bomb installation, torpedoes can also carry deck rotorcraft Ka-27 (or Ka-31).
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