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Russia Chooses Indian Shipyard Pipavav for Joint Construction of Upgraded Talwar Class frigates.
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The
upgraded Talwar frigates will be based on the Project 11356 / Admiral
Grigorovich class of the Russian navy. The first ship of the class was
laid down in December 2010. Four more ships of the same class are in various
stages of construction at the shipyard. All six frigates will be delivered
to the Black Sea Fleet between 2014 and 2017 under two contracts with
the Defense Ministry. The Project 11356 frigates, displacing 3,850 tons, are designed for anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare as well as for air defense missions, operating both independently or as part of convoys and naval task forces. In their Russian configuration,the frigates are armed with an eight-cell launcher for Kalibr and Klub (3M54E) anti-ship and surface-to-surface missiles, a 100-mm main gun, Kashtan gun/missile close-in air defense systems, Shtil vertical-launch air defense missile systems, two torpedo tubes, an anti-submarine rocket system and a Ka-28 or Ka-31 helicopter, according to defense industry sites globalsecurity.org and rusnavy.com. |
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 The first in a series of six Project 11356 frigates being built for the Russian navy Black Sea Fleet |
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"The
contract for the new frigates is likely to be in the form of a government-to-government
order with Russia and could be signed this financial year with delivery
expected over the next six to eight years," according to the publication.
Indian Vice-chief of naval staff, Vice-Admiral P. Murugesan, has confirmed
that the sides have been in negotiations on the frigate building technology
transfer. In the period from 2003 to 2013, India has bought from Russia six Talwar class frigates, which were built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad-based Yantar Shipyard. It was announced after that that India was no longer going to buy finished ships and requested Russia to transfer the technology. |
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