After 10 years of repair: the Russian Federation sent to Cuba the oldest ship of the Baltic Fleet (photo)

To the shores of "Freedom Island" from the Kronstadt Naval Base came the missile frigate "Uncaptive" (712) of the project 11540 "Yastreb", a training ship "Smolnay . This was reported on July 25 by Reuters. A new visit to the island that will last from July 27 to July 28 is part of the "good relations of friendship and cooperation of the Cuban Government with the Union States.

" It is noted that Russian crews will make a number of visits to the capital, but it does not specify how long their stay will last and whether they can also visit Venezuela or Nicaragua later, allied Moscow states in Latin America.

Commenting on the event, the Defense Express observers noted that the ships directed to the shores of the US were "overtaken and went the rust" thing that the Frigate "Unstable", the first representative of the project 11540, was launched in 1988 and is actually one of the oldest ships of Baltic. fleet.

As of 2013, the ship passed a solid 120,000 miles, and in 2014 it was renovated with replacement of engines and the restoration of all major systems, which was to last three years, but ended only in 2023. Officially, the work was completed in December 2021, but the ship failed the reception and delivery tests and returned to the fleet only in April 2023.

This was explained by the fact that the ship was allegedly undergoing a modernization, within which the Fregate radar, the navigation station and the control system of management were replaced. However, the ship did not receive a new weapon, even anti-ship missiles X-35. On the board, only 100 mm art stations and means of combating submarines of the RPC-6M "Village-NK", RBU-6000 and torpedo devices were installed.

And as a ship of the ship is the complex 3m87 "Krug", created on the basis of "Tunguski". "That is, from the point of view of the combat unit, the frigate" unrequited "is very, very controversial ship. Because his real combat capabilities, especially against the backdrop of the visit to the shores of the United States, do not differ too different from the Smolny training ship, on which, incidentally, four artillery systems, two 76- and 30 mm, as well as RBU-2500 bombits, "-experts summed up.