The
Russian Navy will get over 50 new warships by 2016, including strategic
nuclear submarines and special operations support vessels, the Defense
Ministry reported on Thursday.
“By 2016, the combat strength of the Navy will be replenished
with 18 surface warships of various ranks and designation, and also
30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels. It is also planned
to put 6 multi-purpose and strategic submarines into operation,”
the ministry said in a statement. |
The quality
of new generations of surface warships and submarines being built for
the Russian Navy will improve with stronger state acceptance control
at the shipyards involved in the Navy’s shipbuilding program,
the statement said.
“The implementation of the shipbuilding program envisages serial
construction along with the introduction of new technical and modernization
solutions into each subsequently built warship,” the statement
said.
Russia is currently in the middle of a huge rearmament program, with
$659 billion to be spent on arms procurement by 2020, according to the
Defense Ministry.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday unprecedented
naval drills in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in late January with
the involvement of warships from the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and
Pacific Fleets.
“The Russian Navy’s drills of this scope will be held for
the first time over the past few decades and are designed to improve
control, ensure and practice multiservice force interaction of the fleets
in the far-off maritime zones,” the ministry’s press office
said.
The drills will be held in line with the Russian Armed Forces’
2013 combat training plan and will aim to “practice the issues
of establishing a multiservice grouping of forces (troops) outside Russia,
planning its use and conducting joint actions as part of a united naval
grouping based on a common plan,” the press office said. |
