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Navy was always the worst of in our Armed Forces, probably because we are a land power.

Currently our Navy is built around the core of 7 major surface combatants (3 Slavas, 3 Kirovs and 1 Kuznetsov), 11 older destroyers (Sovremeny and Udaloy series) and the submarine force - 22 SSKs (1 Lada and 21 Kilos of various vintages) 17 SSNs (10 Akulas, 4 Sierras and 3 Victor-IVs) and 9 SSGNs (8 Oscar-IIs and 1 Yasen class).

Open source estimate of the current force (excluding minor combatants) can be found here:

 

While the GPV2015 and GPV2020 did begin rearmament and revitilisation of the Navy, with some programs going very well (for example procurement of replacement Kilo class submarines) the surface warfare major combatant construction did suffer delays and now the engine problems. The major armament procurement programs are:

1. Borei and Borei-A class SSBN procurement.
2. Yasen and Yasen-M class SSN procurement.
3. Stop gap emergency program for the Black Sea Fleet - 6 Kilo class SSKs and 6 Grigorovich class FFGs, Grigorovich program would be probably cut early, as it makes more sense to build better desighns when the Russian made powerplants become availiable.
4. Construction of the minor surface combatants - the Buyan small missile ships with the UKSK launcher (capable of launching Kalibrs and Yahont/Oniks) and other such designs.
5. Steregushy corvette program for the Baltic Fleet and the Northern/Pacific Fleets.
6. Gorshkov class FFG program - this program suffered delays due to the new weapons systems and now the powerplant problems. Updated Gorshkov is the most likely candidate in my opinion for the large scale procurement after the powerplant problem is resolved.
7. SSN/SSGN modernisation - the Akulas, Sierras are being upgraded with new electornics, sensors and weapons. Upgraded Oscar-IIs would also receive proper UUVs.
8. Surface combatant modernisation - with the exceptions of Kirovs this is limited to minor refits of electronics and sensors even though there were reports regarding massive modernisation programs for Udaloy class for example.

One open source estimate of ships under construction (but excluding minor combatants) can be found here:

 

But now all is bad. Even if we have problems and delays with procurment there are some very positive developments. One of them would be an improvement in readiness of existing ships, an example of such improvement you can see here with the Akula series:

 

Morever it appears that we have began power plant production for the surface combatants in Russia, meaning that the affected programs would get a new life soon.


Another important topic is the supporting infrastructure for the Russian Navy. Currently we are constructing new deep diving submarines for special missions, as well as refitting mothership submarines to carry those around. In addition to this we are begining deployment of a new survalance ssytem, with spaceborne components (for detection and communications), new deployable and stationary sonar sensors (in Arctic), with stationary infrastructure using autonomous nuclear generation modules.