Not long ago, a picture of the so-called flagship of the Ukrainian Navy "Gatman Sagaiddhkine" was sunk on social media, but judging from the ship's semi-sinking posture, the frigate should have sunk itself in the harbor, and then the Ukrainian Navy also seemed to confirm this statement, and the frigate "Gatman Sagaydashny" was indeed sunk by the Ukrainian Navy in order to prevent the ship from falling into the hands of the Russian army.
The half-sinking "Gatman Sagaidakinei"
Although it is said to be the so-called flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the frigate "Gertman Sagaiddashny" has a full load displacement of only 3600 tons, although nominally a guided missile frigate, but in fact the ship is not equipped with anti-ship missiles, only a Wasp-M short-range ship-to-air missile system (whether it can be used or not, to be verified), and even a certain regional air defense capability, at best, it is a high-equipped coast guard ship with abundant weapons, but it may indeed be worthy of the flagship for the Ukrainian Navy that has few remaining." "Say.
Photograph of the life of the "Gerthman Sagaidachine"
The frigate "Gertman Sagaiddachny" was formerly a patrol ship of the Soviet Coast Guard, called the Type 11351 Border Patrol Ship (yes, it is essentially a patrol ship), and since the Type 11351 Border Patrol Ship was an improvement from the Type 1135 Varik-class guided-missile frigate, the Type 11351 was built entirely according to military-class standards, so it is not unusual for the Ukrainian Navy to be used as a missile frigate in the future.
Type 1135 frigate of the Soviet Navy
In order to deal with the increasingly serious maritime threat, the Soviet Coast Guard At that time decided to purchase a new type of patrol ship, because the Soviet Union did not have a particularly good Coast Guard ship platform, so the patrol team looked at the military standard and moderate displacement of the 1135 type missile frigate, the Northern Design Bureau on the basis of the 1135 type of missile frigate designed the type 11351 border patrol ship. Of course, as a patrol ship, your weapon configuration can not be too excessive, at the missile level, the 11351 type only retains a 4K33 Wasp-M short-range ship-to-air missile system, canceling the original RPK-3 "Blizzard" anti-submarine missile launch system of the 1135 type, so in theory, the type 11351 does not have basic anti-ship or surface control capabilities.
The Type 1135 was defined by the Soviet Union as an anti-submarine frigate, and the positioning of the anti-submarine type was relatively common in the Soviet Navy at that time. In addition to the anti-submarine helicopter, the Type 1135 has two 12-mount RBU-6000 "Tornado" anti-submarine rocket launch systems in the middle, and two quad CHTA-53-1135 533 mm torpedo tubes at the rear of the bridge, which are preserved on the Type 11351 Border Patrol ship. So it is more appropriate to say that the Gotman Sagaidakine is a guided missile frigate than an anti-submarine frigate. From the positioning point of view, the 1135 type is more suitable as an anti-submarine unit with high mobility and rapid response capabilities in the fleet, and it is somewhat far-fetched to serve as a flagship.
In addition to the abundant anti-submarine weapon system, the 11351 detection equipment is luxurious, not only equipped with hull sonar and towed variable deep sonar but also equipped with top-of-the-line three-coordinate radar, at that time the United States Perry-class frigate was also equipped with a two-coordinate radar, which was extremely rare in the mainstream Coast Guard ships at that time.
The Type 11351 Border Patrol Shipyard was produced by the Red Carved Shipyard in the Black Sea, a total of 9 were built, and before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a total of 7 patrol ships of this type were completed and put into service, and when the dissolution was completed, all of them were given to Russia, and only two Of the 11351 types that were still under construction were assigned to Ukraine, which was somewhat bullying. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine completed the construction of one of the Type 11351s, becoming the largest surface ship of the Ukrainian Navy, the "Gertman Sagaidachny", which was scuttled a few days ago, which made the already poor family even worse.
As an industrial center in the Soviet era, Ukraine was the heart of the Soviet Union in the development and manufacture of weapons and equipment, and the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine was the only shipyard in the Soviet Union at that time that had the ability to build large surface ships such as aircraft carriers. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rupture of the cooperative supply chain, coupled with the flickering of the Western world and the self-cutting hands of pro-Western politicians, not only the Ukrainian economy is worrying, the Black Sea shipyard is almost scrapped, let alone the construction of aircraft carriers, and now it is necessary to make a few hundred tons of patrol boats.
In fact, strictly speaking, the "Getman Sagaydashny" is not the largest surface ship in Ukraine, and there is a 10,000-ton cruiser still lying quietly in the Black Sea Shipyard, this ship is nothing else, it is the Soviet "Glory" class guided missile cruiser's fourth ship "Ukraine" (previously named "Komsomolskaya"). The reason why such a ship can be said to be the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy is because the ship has completed most of the construction work, the weapons and radar systems have been equipped, and the latest situation of the ship can only be blamed on Ukraine itself.
Rusty Ukrainian
The "Glory" class destroyers have a full load displacement of nearly 12,000 tons and are equipped with 8 groups of P-1000 "volcanic rock" long-range anti-ship missile launchers, which are highly recognizable in appearance and have a strong sense of power. At present, the third ship of this class, the Varyag, is the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, and if Ukraine can compete for the completion of the construction of the "Ukraine", then it is believed that the Ukrainian Navy will be more confident against Russia (of course, this confidence is also very limited).
In the 2014 Crimean crisis, more than one-third of the main ships of the Ukrainian Navy defected to Russia, making the Ukrainian Navy almost an empty shell, and in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, there was almost no action of the Ukrainian Navy, and the flagship "Gerthman Sagaddachne" frigate had not moved for nearly two years and had been in a state of maintenance, so even if it was sunk, it did not seem to have any big impact on the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian Navy, but did not want to leave the ship to Russia.
In 2010, Russia expressed its intention to buy the "Ukraine" from Ukraine, which was almost completed, but in the end it was also fruitless, and it is not known whether Russia will take action to tow the ship back to Russia this time.