The missile boats of Project 58260 have been announced for a year now, but, given the statement of the Commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Vice-Admiral Igor Voronchenko, that was announced the other day, that in 2019 the first "Lan" will be included in the structure of the Ukrainian Navy, stormy discussions, wrote in his LJ blogger Evil Odessit.

So, in conditions while the frigate still mills on the stocks, and the rate is placed on the so-called "mosquito fleet", the appearance of a boat with a displacement of more than 400 tons and having a weapon more serious than a 30-mm automatic cannon and a set of ATGMs can not but rejoice. Moreover, the phrase about "commissioning" a priori implies, at a minimum, launching this boat in 2018 and its subsequent tests before this very "commissioning".

But the main thing in "Lani" is not that it will become the largest combat unit built for the Navy in recent years, but the fact that our fleet will have weapons that can really pose a threat to the aggressors.

After all, the main raisin of the future missile boat is its anti-ship Neptune missile, about which there is still little that is known, except for its size - 5050 mm and the dimensions of the launch containers - 5300x600x600 mm. And the same thing is that it is capable of sinking a surface object with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons.

According to the project, the boat can accommodate up to 8 launchers of the "Neptune". Given that these missiles are analogous to the X-35, the TTX should not be fundamentally different, which means that even with the increased secrecy around Neptune, it is not difficult to guess that it must ensure the defeat of targets at a distance of at least 200 km.

Thus, taking into account the capabilities of the RCC for the destruction of warships with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons, to which practically all ships in the Navy of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia correspond, except for the missile cruiser of the project 1164 "Moscow", we can safely say that the mosquito fleet in soon there will be sharp teeth. And paradoxically it did not sound, but the most toothy and dangerous is "Lan".