pr.20183 "Academician Alexander" search-and-rescue / sea support vessel
The "Academician Alexander" is a secret intelligence ship. Although some of his technical features are not secret, the specialized equipment can only be guessed. What is certain is that Russia has not built an intelligence reconnaissance ship capable of operating in the ocean before. The "Academician Alexander" is a ship in the ocean area. He may work in the Arctic and the extreme south latitudes in winter to overcome 80 cm of ice.
The ship has a displacement of 5,800 tons, a length of 96 meters, a width of 18 meters, a draft of 9.3 meters, a speed of 14 knots, and a crew of 65 people. It is equipped with two 3262 horsepower electric motors, it has a helipad for helicopter use, but does not have its own propeller. Regarding the equipment on the ship, we only know that there are three electro-hydraulic cranes, the largest of which-the c2500-has hit a record high among domestic marine cranes, and can raise 100 tons of objects to 25 meters. There are also equipment on board that can carry cargo to a depth of 500 meters.
The ship is used for scientific research work in the coastal waters of the Arctic and Antarctica, specialized technical support work, monitoring fleet activities, conducting tests, installing testing and other equipment, as well as search and rescue, towing and deployment of military and special equipment. However, the main purpose of the "Academician Alexander" mission can be said that the ship is used for reconnaissance and sabotage activities.
In 2013 a rescue towing vessel "Akademik Aleksander" actually began in September, as the designer had completed the delivery of design documentation. The six-month delay in the delivery of RKD forced builders to take unconventional, "bypass" solution. For example, to reduce delays in the construction equipment in the engine and boiler room started to load immediately after installation on the stocks of bottom section without waiting for the final formation of the fragment body. Documentation for the construction of "Alexandrov" started to arrive in July.
“Zvezdochka” Ship Repair Center, Zvezdochka Shipyard on December 20, 2012 held a ceremonial keel-laying for the rescue tugboat of Project 20183 developed by Saint-Petersburg-based Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau, the shipyard press release said. The vessel is scheduled to be commissioned into service with the Russian Navy at the end of 2016.
The newbuild will be named “Academic Alexandrov,” according to the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief’s order. The state contract for the vessel was signed on August 1, 2012.
The Academic Alexandrov is the third ship is a series of Project 20180, being built at Zvezdochka yards. Severodvinsk-based Zvezdochka Shipyard (Ship Repair Center) is a diversified shipbuilding enterprise. It has two covered slipways with seven shipbuilding yards, which are designed for retrofitting and construction of vessels with a launching weight of up to 18,000 tons. The firm is majority owned by Northern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation.
With the end of summer hull shop started manufacturing the hull sections, and since September 2013 the 7 korpusniki shop started manufacturing sections. In November, the sections began to arrive on a slipway and collectors began to form the hull. Within two months of the sections produced by 500 tons, accounting for one-fifth of the total volume of the enclosure. They had not yet installed it. With the growth of the housing on the stocks getting a bit crowded - "Alexandrov" older brother interferes with the body - "Academician Kovalev." Fully complete the fabrication of sections planned in the summer and complete the outline of the second body "academic" should acquire by the end of 2014.
Russian Navy Type 20183 "Alexander Academician" was launched at the "Little Star" ship repair center in Severodvinsk on May 12, 2017. It is called an icebreaker and rescue ship. It is actually a deep-sea intelligence and reconnaissance ship and the first of its kind. Shipbuilding, laying the keel on December 20, 2012.
The Russians only learned of this important event a month later. In early March 2020, the solemn Northern Fleet transferred the Russian hmm crane equipment of the marine research ship "Academician Alexander" in Severodvinsk . It should be emphasized that it is not the small star repair center built by the ship, nor the navy representative who built it, but the company that designs and installs high-tech cranes. Indeed, the Navy attended the ceremony not only by representatives of the Navy, but also by senior officials from the Deep Sea Research Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense (nicknamed "GUGI"). This top-secret organization dislikes being open and highly confidential. In April 2020, the Russian Navy’s newest deep-sea intelligence reconnaissance ship "Academician Alexander" secretly approached the Alaska region.
Because it is controlled by Russia's top-secret "GUGI" , it is equipped with deep-sea diving equipment and remote control equipment, which can work below 6000 meters . This is not a complete assumption- this is exactly the technology used by other GUGI ships. Deep-sea reconnaissance is carried out on the undersea cables of the United States and NATO countries, which carry classified information on the NATO naval network. It is read by a special device connected to the cable and transferred to a reconnaissance equipment carrier. This method can also introduce interference in cable lines to temporarily interfere with the information highway.
It is true that military cable is replicated through satellite data transmission lines. However, when the information transmission channel is reduced, when the information capacity remains unchanged, the overload of the communication satellite equipment is inevitable. In the best case, this may cause the system to slow down, and in the worst case is "information paralysis". Of course, the cable can also be cut, but this will no longer be called intelligence, but a diversion. This requires a good reason.
Of course, wired cables are not just a job, ocean survey ships can collect important information very effectively, collect underwater sound waves on the seabed near NATO naval bases, track and understand the original sound information of submarines, and shoot sound waves of new submarines and surface ships. Special equipment for submarine and surface ship base. In addition, it is also engaged in surface-air-radio reconnaissance. In this sense, they work in two environments at the same time and are more effective than reconnaissance aircraft.
Russia needs a large number of professional intelligence vessels, and the number is steadily increasing. At present, GUGI’s main effective means is the 22010 "Amber" intelligence reconnaissance ship handed over to the Northern Fleet in 2015. After sneaking into the US East Coast Strategic Base "Kings Bay" on the east coast of the United States, it immediately caused a sensation. The US intelligence reconnaissance ship may secretly track Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.
A total of three ships for 20180 and its derivative models were delivered, one in 2010, and the 2015 Alexander "Academician (official delivery in 2020). The superstructure was completed in 2015. At the end of last year, a ship named 16450 was launched. All of these It is an ocean icebreaker. These ships have huge underwater acoustic antennas at the bottom that passively work to detect signals, and then the sonar information is processed and forwarded through satellites, which can control hundreds of square kilometers of network environment on the surface and underwater.
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