The US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Stout has broken an alarming record, Popular Mechanics writes.
The American edition notes that the ship was at sea for 208 days instead of the planned six months. According to Popular Mechanics, “the military authorities kept the ship at sea due to the coronavirus outbreak, but the fact that the sailors had to endure such a lengthy patrol points to a broader problem: the severe shortage of naval warships.”
“The 208-day deployment of the Stout is a wake-up call for the future of the Navy,” the publication believes.
Popular Mechanics recalls that the ship, in particular, carried out patrols in the Strait of Hormuz, ensuring the safety of commercial shipping in the region in order to protect against Iran. “The Stout record is another example of how the US Navy does not have enough ships to carry out the tasks required of them,” the newspaper writes.
In January, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences for Information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, said that the Russian frigates of Project 22350m were superior in their capabilities to the American destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class and were not inferior to the American missile cruisers of the Ticonderoga class. According to an authoritative Russian expert, the data on the new Russian ship, which exists only in the design documentation, are “mostly classified.” Nevertheless, according to the known (standard or full – information on this issue is also not disclosed) displacement (8000 tons) and the number of cells for launching attack missiles (48 units) “you can roughly imagine the appearance of a ship.”
