Originally Posted by
rattman
Russia is currently building a fair amount of ships in crimea. The big ticket is 2 * 40 000 ton project 23900 LHD. Could be funny they lost the mistrals because of the 2014 invaison, could lose these 2 as well because of 2022 invasion.
Hmm, because they've proven themselves to be so adept at amphibious and littoral ops... Also, I'd wager every nation around the Black Sea will be clamouring to acquire some sort of ASM capability to negate Russia's naval threat (such as it is).
Maybe they're planning to use them in Africa?