The large Russian ship “Admiral Levchenko” is burning in the Barents Sea – Pletenchuk Dmitry Usik “Admiral Levchenko” is burning in the Barents Sea/Collage 24 Channel (illustrative)00:0001:321x1xAudio synthesized from AI wiki.More Audio News A large Russian anti-submarine ship caught fire in the Barents Sea on June 10. We are talking about “Admiral Levchenko”. The corresponding information was reported by the head of the Center for Strategic Communications of the Southern Defense Forces, Dmitry Pletenchuk. He noted that the Russians are “doing great training” and advised them not to stop. Dmitry Pletenchuk reported that on June 10 in the Barents Sea “enemy equipment was burning and blazing” – there the large anti-submarine ship “Admiral Levchenko” caught fire. Now the Russians are trying to put out the fire. This happens when a “superpower” receives sanctions from Ukraine and cannot independently maintain engines produced in Nikolaev . 10 years were not enough to solve this problem. One of the installations caught fire, writes Pletenchuk. A representative of the Southern Defense Forces noted that the crew of the Admiral Levchenko consists of several hundred people. Comparing it with the cruiser Moscow, he noted that we are talking about a smaller number, but “not bad either.”
Large anti-submarine ship “Admiral Levchenko”/Photo from open sources
What is known about “Admiral Levchenko”
- “Admiral Levchenko” – a large anti-submarine ship of Project 1155. It is known that it was originally called “Khabarovsk”, but a few months later its name was changed to its current name.
- It was launched in February 1985 . Three years later it entered service. In 1989, he became part of the Northern Fleet of the USSR.
- Already in the service of Russia, in 2010 he served a night of combat service in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden. In 2014, it arrived in Sevastopol for repairs. He stayed there for less than a month, after which he left the bay.
- The last time the Admiral Levchenko was repaired was in 2021. It was noted then that in addition to gas turbine propulsion engines, cooling units and shut-off valves would be replaced. It was also planned to modernize the on-board electronics and fire-fighting equipment.
- It is known that Admiral Levchenko is armed with 2 four-container installations of Rastrub missile-torpedoes, 8 anti-aircraft missile launchers “Dagger” complex (64 missiles), 2 100-mm AK-100 artillery mounts, 4 six-barreled 30-mm AK-630 machine guns installed RBU-6000. In addition, there are 2 Ka-27 helicopters on board.
