The start of the icebreaker race

Auxiliary missile cruisers

The Economist newspaper calculates 475 military bases in the northern Russian façade.

The number found in open Russian information sources is halved.

Obviously, most of those « bases » are just observation points, only posts with a handful of military personnel. Multifunctional, which can carry out universal tasks in the stations in the Arctic, are a couple of dozen.

All that military economy needs to be provided, bases need reliable communications with civilization.

This task will be performed alongside others, four specialized, Navy and Border Guard (FSB), high -ice -class ARC7 ships.

The first of them, « Ivan Papanin », will go to the Ice this summer.

Ships, alongside other armaments, will have in containers (TEU or Feu) mounted on the « caliber » type (Club-K) rockets with a flight distance of over a thousand kilometers.

Russia has been showing such portable modules at armaments for many years, allowing any container to turn any container.

By the way, it is not difficult to build such containers in other linear Russian icebreakers. In reality, most of them are double – peaceful and military – destination ships.

Reality: Still, most Russian military bases in the Arctic are just surveillance points, only posts with a handful of military personnel, like this Pran Joseph’s land. / Photo by Scanpix

All hopes to the Finns

Mr Trump announced Mr Stubb’s visit on the social network: “We discussed the strengthening of the US and Finland, including crying. Badly Needed – lp) the acquisition of icebreakers. « 

Finland has the strongest competencies in various circumstances, both when designing and building icebreakers.

For decades, the country has designed and built ocean icebreakers to Russia, which has been interrupted after aggression against Ukraine.

If the construction of icebreakers is now moving, as planned, the prospects for the production of Klaipėda companies to produce certain sections of those ships are also opened.

This is a favorable geographical location, existing relationships and good qualifications of our employees.

It is easy to see that Trump’s interest in the Finnish industry is in line with the principle of the US – to produce everything themselves by covering foreign production.

Finland has the strongest competencies in various circumstances, both when designing and building icebreakers. For decades, the country has designed and built ocean icebreakers to Russia, which has been interrupted after aggression against Ukraine.

However, the special interest in the US is to have a capable icebreaker fleet – superior to the general interest to create jobs in your country.

Building modern icebreakers in the US is now simply not capable.

The weakness of the United States ship construction industry is well illustrated by misery in place of a patrol ice -ordered ice -ordered patrol ice cream in the US.

This relatively modest capacity was started in 2019, and it was planned to give it to the customer last year.

It was announced early this year that the icebreaker would not be built until 2030.

The reason is that the beach is unable to build this type of ship. Will study while building.

Like a space race

Russia has overtaking the United States for decades in this area. From the very first days, Putin has consistently strengthened icebreaker capabilities in the Arctic with the help of Finnish constructors and engineers.

The currently available bases, icebreakers, aviation ensure the projection of power through the pole to the North American continent, and this power can only be built by a hole in a passive defense fence.

But Russia has other problems in the Arctic. Although the existing icebreaker fleet is capable of performing the necessary military tasks, it is still too weak economically – both quality and quantitatively.

Therefore, at the meeting in Murmansk, the construction of the powerful icebreaker « leader » was dedicated to the construction progress.

A series of such vessels, while working on the track, would bring Russia’s ambition to establish regular transit shipping in the iceberg throughout the seasons.

The new generation of Russia’s « leader » atomic icebreaker can be completed in the 2030s.

Ship characteristics stunning: 70 thousand. tons of capacity, 120 MW power, maximum ice thickness – 5 meters. Such are the only perennial ice cream, and it is in the Sangrūdis.

Transporters also like the other important characteristic of the icebreaker – the width. It is 46 meters in water.

This will open a broader channel for led by current icebreakers.

A total of three such icebreakers are planned.

The realization of this ambitious project faces difficulties. The « leader » is built in a new, unattended bench near Vladivostok.

Last year, together with the Ursa Maior Mediterranean, two specially made nuclear reactor covers sank in the Mediterranean.

The icebreaker racing is reminiscent of 60 years ago, which begins with a lesser extent in China). The spaces that began on the Soviet flight around the Earth, and the American landing on the moon ended.

That race was started for military and state prestige, but has given great co -benefits to the peaceful economy.

If the icebreaker race now is at least a decade, in the case of peace, humanity will also win.