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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The first shots of damage to the "Provorny" corvette after the fire.
In appearance, everything is very serious - here either for cancellation, or, in fact, re-completion. A significant part of the money spent clearly burned out yesterday, it’s good at least the weapons systems and some of the equipment didn’t have time to install, otherwise the damage could have been even greater.
In any case, yesterday's fire again raised a number of sore questions:
1. Continuous violations of safety procedures and various ones continue, which lead to periodic fires or serious material damage - "Losharik", "Yekaterinburg", "Orel", "Admiral Kuznetsov", PD- 51. And this is so, offhand for the last 10 years. Now here comes "Agile". A bit too much comes out.
2. The potential loss of a corvette, taking into account the small number of corvette in the construction and the duration of this very construction, is certainly a problem for the renewal of the Pacific Fleet's ship composition. He was clearly counted on.
Even if they can restore or finish building, the ship will appear in the fleet clearly later than planned. New corvettes of project 20385 should appear at the Pacific Fleet only in 2026-2027 with an average construction time of 4-5 years from the moment of laying (for understanding, 4-5 years for a ship with a displacement of 2200-2400 tons, while in China for 2-4 years, for example, destroyers of type 052 riveted, displacement of 7,500 tons, or on average in 3 years they build large destroyers of type 055, displacement of 13,000 tons, ordinary corvettes, for example, of the same type 056, China has already riveted more than 60 pieces, building a ship with a water capacity in 1300-1500 tons for about a year). On the "
3. The pace of construction of such ships is completely unsatisfactory. This unfortunate corvette has been built since 2013 and has not yet been commissioned. We can only dream about the Chinese construction pace (see the construction speed of Type-075 aircraft carriers and helicopter carriers) and large-scale production - for the good, for the country's needs, corvettes need to be built in a large series of 12-16 pieces (3-4 for each fleet) and not in such a protracted time frame, which raises the question of the need to modernize factories and shipyards and increase their productivity.
And if we had built at least a dozen of them, then the loss of one of them would not be perceived as painful as when they are already being built a little, and a new one is waiting in the fleet for many years, and he is several months before entering combat the composition of the fleet burns out.
Again, that doesn't mean that the same Chinese or Americans do not have negligence, slovenliness and safety violations - the burned out American helicopter carrier Bonom Richard and the fire on the newest Chinese helicopter carrier during completion, transparently hint that not only we have a mess. But in our country it is perceived more sharply, due to the big problems with compensation for the costs of such accidents to maintain the combat effectiveness of the fleet.
In general, this is a rather serious problem. 
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