{"id":1344881,"date":"2022-02-26T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1344881"},"modified":"2022-02-26T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:39:41","slug":"russian-navy-moves-16-warships-near-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-navy-moves-16-warships-near-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Navy Moves 16 Warships Near Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-navy-moves-16-warships-near-syria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1344881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_91585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/01\/26\/140-russian-navy-warships-drilling-across-europe-middle-east-as-ukraine-tensions-simmer\/screen-shot-2022-01-26-at-1-52-48-pm\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91585\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91585\" data-attachment-id=\"91585\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/01\/26\/140-russian-navy-warships-drilling-across-europe-middle-east-as-ukraine-tensions-simmer\/screen-shot-2022-01-26-at-1-52-48-pm\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-1.52.48-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1777,969\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\" aperture \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-91585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov departs Russian Northern Fleet base Severomorsk. Russian MoD Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two Russian guided-missile cruisers from Russia\u2019s North and Pacific fleets met off the coast of Syria as part of a 16-ship Russian Navy formation, according to satellite photos taken on Thursday.<span id=\"more-92394\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Slava-class cruisers RTS\u00a0<em>Marshal Ustinov<\/em> (055) and RFS <em>Varyag<\/em> (011) were part of a 16-ship formation in Syrian territorial waters near Russia\u2019s sole foreign naval base in Tartus as captured by European Space Agency\u2019s satellite imagery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2022\/02\/unusual-russian-navy-concentration-seen-in-eastern-mediterranean\/\">reported <em>Naval News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the concentration of essentially the entire Russian Navy in the Mediterranean, in one place. Ordinarily, these vessels would be operating in distinct groups,\u201d reads the report from <em>Naval News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The formation includes the two Slavas, two Udaloy-class destroyers, two guided-missile frigates, two Kilo diesel-electric attack submarines, a Buyan-class corvette, two assault boats and a variety of auxiliary vessels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/02\/24\/russian-navy-masses-16-warships-near-syria\/russia-navy-off-syria-ukraine-invasion\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92396\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92396\" data-attachment-id=\"92396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/02\/24\/russian-navy-masses-16-warships-near-syria\/russia-navy-off-syria-ukraine-invasion\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Russia-Navy-Off-Syria-Ukraine-Invasion.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\" aperture \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Navy ships off the coast of Syria on Feb. 24, 2022. Naval News Graphic by H I Sutton used with permission<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two Slavas had been operating at either end of the Mediterranean as the head of two separate surface action groups. A third Slava, RTS <em>Moskva<\/em> (121), is in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The 11,500-ton Slavas were designed around launchers that can hold 16 SS-N-12 Sandbox anti-ship cruise missiles \u2013 each about the size of a telephone pole. The 1970s era ships and missiles were crafted to battle U.S. and NATO aircraft carriers by overwhelming them with a barrage of high-speed cruise missiles to sink ships.<\/p>\n<p>The formation resembles a photo exercise rather than a military formation. PHOTOEXs, held by navies around the world, are designed to produce dramatic photographs of ships in naval formations that otherwise have limited operational value.<\/p>\n<p>While the operations of the Slavas are in part to send a provocative message to NATO forces, officials say, the actual capabilities of the Russian surface fleet in the Mediterranean are outmatched by just U.S. assets surged to the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/02\/22\/russian-navy-cruisers-positioned-to-counter-u-s-french-and-italian-carrier-groups-in-the-mediterranean\">On Tuesday<\/a>, defense officials confirmed the intent of the cruisers was likely to complicate the operations of three NATO carrier strike groups also operating in the Mediterranean<\/p>\n<p>USS<em> Harry S. Truman\u00a0<\/em>(CVN-75),\u00a0ITS\u00a0<em>Cavour<\/em>\u00a0(CVH-550) and French Navy carrier FS\u00a0<em>Charles de Gaulle<\/em>\u00a0(R 91) their escorts and air wings have been part of an ongoing reassurance mission to NATO allies in the lead up to Thursday\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>There are about a dozen U.S. guided-missile cruisers and destroyers in U.S. 6th Fleet,\u00a0and some surged to the region with the last two months.<\/p>\n<p>Four East Coast guided-missile destroyers \u2013 USS\u00a0<em>Donald Cook<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-75), USS\u00a0<em>Mitscher<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-57), USS\u00a0<em>The Sullivans<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-68) and USS\u00a0<em>Gonzalez<\/em> (DDG-66) \u2013 left in January for Europe as Russian ships departed from the Arctic and Pacific, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/02\/10\/4-east-coast-destroyers-deploy-to-europe-joining-u-s-naval-build-up\">USNI News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those ships are in addition\u00a0the forward-deployed USS\u00a0<em>Ross<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-71), USS\u00a0<em>Roosevelt<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-80), USS\u00a0<em>Porter<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-78) and USS\u00a0<em>Arleigh Burke<\/em>\u00a0(DDG-51), and the escorts of the Harry S. Truman CSG.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the U.S. Navy was well prepared to interact with the Russian Navy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe operate in and around the Russians and the Chinese all the time. So this is nothing new,\u201d he said on Friday when asked about the Russian cruisers by reporters.<br \/>\u201cGiven this current situation, the chance for miscalculation is greater. That\u2019s why we train to a very high standard so that when we find our ships in situations like this the [commanders] that we act in a way that\u2019s not provocative and that we communicate very clearly that we\u2019re not cowboys out there. Our intentions are to be responsible professionals out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear the next moves for the Slavas. The last surface action group to visit the Russian naval base in Tartus resupplied their ships and traveled into the Black Sea in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov departs Russian Northern Fleet base Severomorsk. 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