Russian ship Vasiliy Tatishchev
Vasiliy Tatishchev (former Pelengator) is a Russian SIGINT ship of Vishnya Class (Project 864 Class).
Ship
[edit]The ship was launched in 27 November 1987 and is in operation since 3 July 1988. It was build by Remontowa Shipbuilding SA (formerly Stocznia Północna) in Poland.[1]
SIGINT
[edit]The Vasiliy Tatishchev specializes in signal acquisition, interception of communication and navigation signals, as well as mobile telephone communication. Vasiliy Tatishchev is equiped wit SIGINT and COMINT electronic intelligence via an extensive array of sensors. The data could be transmitted to shore via satellite link by two satellite communications antennae inside radomes.[2][3]
For naval use the vessel has two Volga (Don Kay) navigation radar.
Deployments
[edit]Vasily Tatishchev was deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on 5 October 2015 to monitor the civil war in Syria.
In summer 2022 the vessel was deployed to an russian blockad of NATO ships in the adriatic sea.[4] According to "La Repubblica" Vasiliy Tatishchev task was to study the "electronic reactions" of NATO.[5]
In June 2024, the ship took up position in international waters northwest of the German island of Fehmarn. Its likely mission was to shadow the participants in the large-scale exercise BALTOPS, who were gathering in the Bay of Kiel and preparing to enter the German naval base in Kiel.[3]
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- ^ "ODIN - OE Data Integration Network". odin.tradoc.army.mil. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ a b ES&T Redaktion (2024-06-26). "Bemerkenswerte russische Schiffsbewegungen vor der Haustür". esut.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ "Russian Fleet Faced NATO Battleships in Attempt to Block Adriatic Sea". ALBANIA DAILY NEWS. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ https://en.vijesti.me/world-a/evropa/617695/The-Russian-fleet-blocked-an-American-aircraft-carrier-in-the-Adriatic-Sea-for-the-first-time-since-the-beginning-of-the-war-in-Ukraine