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The Black Sea Fleet includes two additional corvettes of the Karakurt, made in t...

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation found another combat use to ships in Crimea: that invented the enemy

The Black Sea Fleet includes two additional corvettes of the Karakurt, made in the Tatarstan Republic, analysts said. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation use ships as a system of air defense in temporarily occupied Crimea. This was reported by analysts of the Institute of War Study in the daily report on December 13. "Russian troops use sea ships to supplement air defense systems in the occupied Crimea," the message reads.

On December 13, a spokesman for the Naval Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Pletenchuk reported that the Russian soldiers use the small rocket ship "Cyclone" of the Project 22800 "Karakurt" as a system of air defense on the basis of Sevastopol. According to him, the invaders replenished the composition of the Black Sea Fleet with two additional corvetes of the "Karakurt", which are made in the Republic of Tatarstan.

In addition, he emphasized that the Russian rockets type "caliber" include from 40 to 60 foreign parts, including microelectronics. We will remind, in the report for December 11 analysts of the Institute of War Study reported that the Russian Federation expands the naval potential far beyond Ukraine and Eastern Europe. ISW believes that Russia can prepare for the future conventional war with NATO.