Baltic Fleet - Under The Russian Federation - Order of Battle

Order of Battle

As of 2008 the Baltic Fleet included about 75 combat ships of various types. The main bases is in Baltiysk and a second operational base is in Kronstadt. The Leningrad Naval Base is an administrative entity that is not a discrete geographic location but comprises all of the naval institutions and facilities in the St. Petersburg area. Operational forces include:

• Submarines
  • 1 Lada class submarine
    • Sankt Peterburg
  • 2 Kilo class submarines

• Destroyers / Frigates
  • 2 Sovremennyy class destroyers
    • RFS 610 Nastoychivyy (1992)
    • RFS 620 Bespokoynyy (1991)
  • 2 Neustrashimyy class frigates
    • Neustrashimyy(Entered service 1993).
    • Yaroslav Mudryy (Entered service 2009).
  • 1 Krivak class frigate ( Navy Commander issued an order to write off the ship. ( 2012 ) )

• Corvettes
  • 2 Steregushchiy class corvettes
    • RFS 530 Steregushchiy (2007)
    • RFS 531 Soobrazitelnyy (2011)
  • 5 Nanuchka class corvettes
  • 8 Parchim class corvettes

• Amphibious ships
  • 4 Ropucha class landing ship
  • 1 Zubr class LCAC (RFS 770 Evgeny Kocheshkov)
  • 2 Ondatra class landing ships
  • 1 Serna class landing ship

• Missile / Patrol boats
  • 7 Tarantul class corvettes
  • 4 Pauk class corvette

• Minesweepers
  • 5 Sonya class minesweeper
  • 1 Natya class minesweeper
  • 6 Lida class minesweeper

• Naval Aviation
  • The fleet's aviation arm currently comprises:
    • 689th Independent Fighter Aviation Regiment – Kaliningrad Chkalovsk – operating Su-27;
    • 4th Independent Naval Assault Aviation Regiment – Chernyakhovsk Air Base – operating Su-24M/MR;
    • 125th Independent Helicopter Squadron – HQ at Chkalovsk – operating Mi-8, Mi-24 (this was the former 288th Independent Helicopter Regt of the 11th Guards Army and used to be at Nivenskoye);
    • 396th Independent Shipborne Anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron – Donskoye Air Base – Ka-27/PS, Ka-29;
    • 398th Independent Air Transport Squadron – HQ at Khrabrovo – An-2, An-12, An-24, An-26, Be-12, Mi-8.
  • The fleet's aviation units were equipped with a total of 23 Su-27, 26 Su-24, 14 An-12/24/26, 2 An-12 Cub (MR/EW), 11 Mi-24 Hind, 19 Ka-28 Helix, 8 Ka-29 Helix assault helicopters, and 17 Mi-8 Hip transport helicopters in 2007, according to the IISS.

• Ground and Coastal Forces of the Baltic Fleet
  • In the late 1990s the 336th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and the remnant of the 11th Guards Army of the Baltic Military District were subordinated to a single command named the Ground and Coastal Forces of the Baltic Fleet under a deputy fleet commander. The 11th Guards Army remnant included the 7th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade and 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division, plus several Bases for Storage of Weapons and Equipment, holding enough vehicles and weaponry for a division but only having a few hundred men assigned to maintain the equipment and guard the bases.
  • In 2011 two divisions of new S-400 Ground-to-Air Missile systems will be raised for the force.