“Russia will sink the US aircraft carrier in the Black Sea in five minutes”
As the American edition of The Wall Street Journal reported, citing its own sources, the US presidential administration intends to initiate a discussion of new rules for navigation and entry of warships into the Black Sea. We are talking about the size of ships passing through the Bosphorus, which is currently limited to 45 thousand tons, and the period of their stay in the Black Sea, which is today, respectively, Montreux, no more than 21 days.
It is precisely because of this legal regulation that the Americans have never sent the main strike force through the Bosphorus – nuclear aircraft carriers with a displacement of 80 thousand tons.
At the same time, the technical aircraft carrier is approaching the dimensions of the Bosphorus – the strait has a width of 700 to 3700 meters and from 33 to 80 meters. This is more than the dimensions of any American air carrier.
“The Montreux Convention on the Status of the Straits of 1936 is a voluntary instrument. The US may initiate its revision. Or just get out. But everything can be solved even easier. First, it is basically written that Turkey, in someone’s jurisdiction in the sphere of the straits, can allow international ships of any country to pass through the Bosphorus if it considers that it is “under strategic jurisdiction.” Secondly, the United States thought that the USSR had withdrawn its aircraft-carrying ships across the strait. And on this basis, on the initiative of a public and legal precedent, aircraft carriers are being introduced into the Black Sea, ”said Maxim Aleshin, specialist in naval law, researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada, to Gazeta.Ru.
There are now three aircraft carriers of NATO countries off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, which are taking part in the exercises “Mission Clemenceau – 2022”.
This is the French Charles de Gaulle, accompanied by a battle group, which includes the nuclear attack submarine Rubis, the American Harry Truman with its squadron, as well as the eastern aircraft ship Camillo Benso Cavour.
As a result, at least one frigate-class ship entered the Black Sea under the cover of carrier-based aircraft. There is no official talk about aircraft carriers yet.
“Aircraft carriers in the Black Sea are absolutely useless and burdensome,” a military expert, captain of the first rank of the reserve, Vasily Dandykin, told Gazeta.Ru. – The water area of the sea is limited by its results and size, which hinders the maneuverability of such a colossus as an aircraft carrier. Secondly, it is constantly in the sight of not only the ship assets of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, but also coastal missile systems. For example, from the berthing thickness in Sevastopol to the base in Romanian Constanta is only about 400 kilometers, to Turkish Istanbul – 540 kilometers, and the range of use of the Bal and Bastion missile systems is 500 and 300 kilometers, respectively, for Caliber – 2500 kilometers. Russia is shooting through the Black Sea.”
The expert also believes that the Zircon supersonic missile can be used against aircraft carriers, which he considers “because of its ability to maneuver at supersonic speed, it is impossible to shoot down state missile defense systems.”
“Whether the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy has hypersonic anti-ship Zircons is unknown, but they have already been tested and manufactured. A hundred-ton aircraft carrier simply will not be able to fight off such a “swarm” of missiles, and if it does not immediately rest on the seashore, it will lose its purpose – to raise aircraft for air strikes. In general, an aircraft carrier in the Black Sea is useless,” says Dandykin.
Retired Rear Admiral of the Navy Mikhail Nelyubin, a former employee of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy, also believes that
from an “applied naval point of view, the passage of an aircraft carrier into the Black Sea does not make sense.”
“Another thing is that it will be a political gesture. US aircraft carrier in the Black Sea, Russia will sink in less than five minutes. But after all, if he enters there, we won’t shoot right away, ”Rear Admiral Nelyubin told Gazeta.Ru.
– And the very fact that this is happening is being discussed in the sense that the United States and meet in this way “marked”. If aircraft carriers are launched with aircraft carriers, this will be discussed twice as strongly. After all, it can even be imagined that Russia was afraid to take on the case against Ukraine precisely because of the American aircraft carrier. It does not matter that there will be no war in Russia. Such an exit will have a powerful political effect.”