The Russian Navy has been researching armed icebreakers for years under the code name Project 23550. Now, for the first time, such a combat icebreaker has set sail: the ship named Ivan Papanin left the shipyard in St. Petersburg, where it was built, for its first sea trials.
While Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has suffered heavy losses in the invasion war against Ukraine, Putin’s navy is arming itself in the north with a new type of ship. The first ship of a small fleet of combat icebreakers, developed as “Project 23550,” left the port of St. Petersburg a few days ago for its first sea trial. The purpose of the ship: to secure Russia’s military interests in the strategically important Arctic and to create a threat to the US and Canada. The two NATO countries have nothing comparable in their fleets.
Source: Krone
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