On April 14, the Russian Foreign Ministry admitted that the cruiser Moscow sank while towing in a storm. Earlier, the Ukrainian military claimed to have fired two Neptune anti-ship missiles that hit the Moscow.
"Moscow", is the Russian Federal Navy inherited the Soviet Red Navy period of the 1164 type "Glorious" class cruiser, full load displacement of more than 11,000 tons, the appearance of the eye-catching symbol is 8 twins equipped with 16 huge anti-ship missile launchers, it is very powerful and majestic, fully reflects the "violent" masculine beauty of the Large Main Battleship of The Soviet Union.
With a length of 186.4 meters and a width of 20.8 meters, the Moscow is the largest surface warship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Navy and the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.
The "Moscow" was exploded and the ammunition depot was exploded, and many non-military fans had the concept of "flagship". A flagship is a warship carrying a naval admiral or commander of a fleet or sub-fleet, and flying the flag of the fleet, and is in the position of a command ship in the fleet.
For example, during World War II, the battleship "Yamato", which had a full load displacement of 70,000 tons, had three three-piece 460mm global largest caliber naval guns, and each shell weighed more than 1 ton, which was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy.
The cruiser Moscow, indeed the largest warship in the Black Sea Fleet, made it the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and was itself the façade of the Black Sea Fleet. The other active combat ships of the Black Sea Fleet are the most capable of combat, the Type 11356R frigate with a full load displacement of more than 4,000 tons, and more small missile ships of hundreds of tons. The "Moscow" ship is 40 years old, but it is the only "ship" that should not be allowed to be the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.
With the sinking of the cruiser 121 "Moscow" into the depths of the Black Sea, there are already articles on the Internet speculating on the selection of the flagship "ship" of the Black Sea Fleet, and it is believed that the only one who can be worthy of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet is the 055 "Marshal Ustinov" of the Northern Fleet, which is also a Type 1164 "Glorious" class cruiser.
There is some truth to this statement, another cruiser of the same class 011 "Varyag" is the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, and the flagship of the Northern Fleet is the 1144 type 099 "Peter the Great" nuclear-powered cruiser with a full displacement of more than 25,000 tons.
As for the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, it is not excluded that the Russian Navy will upgrade any of the three type 1156R frigates of the Black Sea Fleet to the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, at least this possibility.
Flagships, in fact, are not necessarily the largest tonnage, the most powerful, and the most modernly equipped warships in the fleet. For example, the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese Navy currently has 4 Type 055 10,000 large drives, 8 6500/7000 ton 052D/DL air defense destroyers, and 2 7000-ton 051C air defense destroyers, all of which are "shield" ships with phased array radar and ship-borne vertical launchers, and their comprehensive combat capabilities are very powerful.
The flagship of the North Sea Fleet has neither phased array radar nor ship-based vertical launchers, nor even regional air defense capabilities, and the anti-air defense is only 1 8-piece "Haihongqi"-7 short-range air defense missile, and the full load displacement is only 4800 tons, and the 052-type destroyer 112 "Harbin" is 28 years old.
With a full load displacement of 12,500 tons, with a dual-band radar, an integrated mast integrated radio frequency system, 112 standard ship-borne vertical launchers, the world's most recognized type 055 destroyer in active service, does not replace the old 112 "Harbin" as the flagship of the fleet, netizens are not surprised and surprised.
Similarly, the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet is the 052C destroyer 150 "Changchun" with a full load displacement of more than 6,000 tons, and the flagship of the South China Sea Fleet is the 051B destroyer 167 "Shenzhen" with a full load of 6600 tons of goods.
Neither ship nor is the strongest destroyer in active service in their respective fleets, the East China Sea Fleet has a full load displacement of 7,000 tons of 052DL air defense destroyers, and the South China Sea Fleet also has a Type 055 million ton large drive, neither of which has become the flagship of the fleet.
The 112 Harbin is the pioneering work of a modern destroyer of the Chinese Navy and has been the command ship of the North Sea Fleet since its commissioning on May 8, 1994.
In the two major transformation and upgrading, the domestic "Sea Red Flag" -7 replaced the original French "Sea Sidewinder" short-range air defense missile, the 4-mounted "Eagle Strike" -83 replaced the 4 twin "Eagle Strike"-8 anti-ship missiles, and the 2 730 close-in gun systems replaced the 4 76A type 37mm double-barreled secondary guns on the Far Plains ship.
The 112 "Harbin" focused on improving the computer network system, command and control system, electronic warfare system, high-speed data link system, satellite communication system, and other radio communication systems inside the hull, so as to retain the status of the command ship within the fleet.