Russian Navy

Combat Capabilities of Russian and US Navies in 2010

	Russian Navy	US Navy
Manpower	142000	331682 + in reserve 124000

Types of combatant ships	Russian Navy Amount on the roll	Weight	US Navy Amount on the roll	Weight
Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (weighting factor 0, not supposed to attend conventional war)	16 (5 - under repair)	0	14	0
Nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines (weighting factor 5)	21 (10 - under repair)	105	4 Ohaio + 5 Virginia	45
Nuclear-powered attack submarines (weighting factor 5)	12 (6 – under repair)	60	51 LA + 3 SV (1 – on trials)	270
Diesel-electric submarines (weighting factor 3)	22 (7 - under repair)	66	-	-
Aircraft carriers (weighting factor 6)	1	6	11	66
Guided missile cruisers (weighting factor 4)	7 (3 – under repair)	28	22	88
Guided missile destroyers (weighting factor 3)	12 (6 – under repair) 12 (2 - under repair)	72	57	171
Guided missile frigates (weighting factor 3)	9 (1 - under repair)	27	30	90
Corvettes (weighting factor 1)	74 (13 - under repair)	74	10 + 2 LCS	12
Amphibious ships (weighting factor 2)	24 (5 - under repair)	48	32	64
Mine countermeasures ships / minesweepers (weighting factor 1)	36 (2 - under repair)	36	14	14
Total	246	522	255	820
Proportion	1	1	1,04	1,57

Taking into account conventional units, at almost equal on-the-roll amount of ships Russian Navy yields to US Navy in combat capability by 57% primarily because of misbalance, i.e. insufficient number of nuclear-powered attack submarines and surface ships of basic classes.

REMARKS

1. Combat capability herein is overall index of military parity displaying quantitative and combat power ratio between Russian Navy and US Navy which is the world's largest fleets. Weighting factors are used for comparative assessment of various types of warships.

2. The figures may differ from official (real) quantity. The table does not contain auxiliary ships and was made only on the basis of publicly open sources.

3. As long as amount of ships on the roll is much greater than combat-ready ones, real balance of combat capabilities may differ.

4. Information shown in the table expresses combat capabilities of classes and single ships not in full. Detailed description can be found on Central Navy Portal webpages.

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