![]() ![]() It said the US scored highly because it "features a broad mix of warship and submarine types as well as balance strengthened by overall numbers (quantity) - pulling ahead by its vaunted carrier fleet." ![]() The WDMMW gave it a True Value Rating of 323.9, its highest score. The US Navy is widely considered the most powerful the world has ever known. The USS Connecticut after surfacing through Arctic sea ice during an exercise in Alaska in March 2011. One significant loss was the Moskva, its flagship in the Black Sea that was taken out in a Ukrainian missile strike. Russia's military has seen some major equipment losses in its invasion of Ukraine, but its navy has not played a major role, keeping its fleet largely intact. The WDMMW gave Russia a True Value Rating of 242.3 and said it had a "good" force balance. It said that Russia was trying to modernize its navy by placing 82 new units on order and that it had made a "noticeable commitment" to new corvette warships, submarines, and mine/countermine warfare ships. The WDMMW said, "The mine warfare division is primarily aging Soviet Cold War-era instruments as is the bulk of the amphibious assault/support force." The listing said that Russia's navy had one frigate, 83 corvettes, 28 mine/countermine warfare ships, 27 offshore-patrol vessels, and 21 amphibious-assault vessels. ![]() It said Russia's median hull age was 30 years. Many of its 58 submarines, 12 destroyers, and four cruisers are also showing their age. Russia's navy, with 265 units in its active inventory assets in March, was ranked third in the world by the WDMMW.īut it said Russia had a lot of aging units, including its only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Russian President Vladimir Putin at Russian Navy Day in St. ![]()
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