A recent report from The Moscow Times stated that a Russian sailor from the Black Sea Fleet was arrested for plotting to blow up a Russian warship with “precision-guided munitions” being used against targets in Ukraine.
That vessel was almost certainly one of the two Admiral Grigorovich class frigates currently operating in the Black Sea. In the wake of the loss of the air defense cruiser Moskva last April to Ukrainian Neptune cruise missiles, these ships, Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen are the only two large Russian surface warships in the Black Sea Fleet capable of precision-guided munitions (Kaliber cruise missile) launches although the Fleet’s Bunyan and Karakut class missile corvettes also have this capability.
The Russian Navy has a long history of mutinies including the attempted defection of the frigate Storozhevoy in 1975 in the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, and the more famous mutiny and takeover of the battleship Potemkin, which sparked the abortive 1905 Russian revolution and was the inspiration for the communist propaganda film about the mutiny by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in 1925.
Center for Maritime Strategy
Dr. Steven Wills
External Source: Defense Opinion
A recent report from The Moscow Times stated that a Russian sailor from the Black Sea Fleet was arrested for plotting to blow up a Russian warship with “precision-guided munitions” being used against targets in Ukraine.
That vessel was almost certainly one of the two Admiral Grigorovich class frigates currently operating in the Black Sea. In the wake of the loss of the air defense cruiser Moskva last April to Ukrainian Neptune cruise missiles, these ships, Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen are the only two large Russian surface warships in the Black Sea Fleet capable of precision-guided munitions (Kaliber cruise missile) launches although the Fleet’s Bunyan and Karakut class missile corvettes also have this capability.
The Russian Navy has a long history of mutinies including the attempted defection of the frigate Storozhevoy in 1975 in the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, and the more famous mutiny and takeover of the battleship Potemkin, which sparked the abortive 1905 Russian revolution and was the inspiration for the communist propaganda film about the mutiny by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in 1925.
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Dr. Steven Wills, Navalist