Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Military TV. Today, we are going to take a look
at Admiral Gorshkov, which is known to be Russian deadliest frigate to date. For more information on
this frigate, don’t go anywhere and stay tuned. Frigate is one of the most essential components
of naval power. Throughout years, frigate has been transformed from its origin as the warship
nations built to solidify their naval fleet. With the advancement of technology, frigate also faced
significant transformation in shape, ability, feature as well as function in general. To date,
frigate remains to serve superpowers’ fleet as an effective combatant in the battlefield.
Since the Cold War, the Soviet Union was commonly known to have a strong land power, as opposed to
the United States who was exclusively claimed to be the greatest naval power. However, that period
when the Russian seem to be less interested in developing robust warships has gone. The
country reportedly owns the world’s most advanced and deadliest frigate – the Admiral Gorshkov.
The Admiral Gorshkov-class of frigates, commonly known as Project 22350,
is Russia's newest frigate class. The ship was built in Saint Petersburg by
the Severnaya Verf and are successors of the Neustrashimyy and Krivak classes. Gorshkov class
frigates are meant to be capable in multithread environments and are complemented with long-range
surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, along with the capability of
attacking multiple targets simultaneously. What about the feature of this frigate?
First of all, with an overall length of 130 meter and a beam of 16 meter,
the ship has operational ranges of more than 4,500 nautical miles
and a displacement of 4,550 tonnage. Not only that, Admiral Gorshkov also
boasted to be able to accommodate 200 crew members with the maximum speed of 30 knots.
For the armaments, Admiral Gorshkov-class are equipped with a new 130mm gun mount, a close-in
weapon system (CIWS) and eight SS-NX-26 Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles. This type of missile
is known to be capable of being launched against a group of naval surface and single vessels.
Other weapon systems include a Medvedka-2 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and a Hurricane
medium-range surface-to-air defence missile system, in addition to advanced torpedo tubes.
What’s more, Gorshkov is the only Russian combat vessel to be attached with BrahMos missiles,
which is famous for being supersonic cruise missile having a range of 180 miles which
was developed through the collaboration of Russia and India in BrahMos Aerospace program.
The BrahMos missile allegedly capable of hitting ground and sea targets while cruising at an
altitude as low as ten meters with the speed of Mach 2.8, surprisingly three times faster than
the US-made subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile. On the other side, the frigates are also
equipped with combined gas turbine and gas turbine (COGAG) propulsion systems,
which are noted to be more efficient than combined diesel of gas propulsion systems.
The COGAG system which Gorshkov employs would deliver more economical transit at cruise speeds.
The frigates will also feature an aft flight deck and hangar to carry sophisticated Ka-26/27
helicopters, which would be fitted with radar systems that allow submarines to be tracked.
On top of that, according to a recent news, Russia also has launched its brand-new hypersonic missile
Zircon from the Admiral Gorshkov at a target in the Barents Sea as part of completion of tests.
Considering how advanced these specifications and weapons are for a single military vessel,
and given that the ship is a frigate, the features and capabilities built for Admiral
Gorshkov are remarkably astounding. The Admiral Gorshkov-class has more than the
necessary equipment to defeat submarines, planes, and, of course, other hostile ships.
And although it is not a destroyer, the ship has many of the same capabilities as such destroyers,
which will be undoubtedly lethal for the other naval power.
So, that’s all for today! Thank you for watching and see you in the next episode.