The
Indian Navy’s Sindhukesari diesel-electric submarine has been
sent for repair onboard a Dutch float-on/float-off ship to a Russian
defense shipyard, Zvyozdochka, in the city of Severodvinsk, Zvyozdochka’s
spokesman Yevgeny Gladyshev told TASS on Tuesday. |
"The
Rolldock Star multipurpose semi-submersible heavy lift transport vessel
carrying the Sindhukesari submarine left Mumbai for Severodvinsk on
May 6," he said. According to the shipping company, the vessel
is due to its destination on June 12.
As was reported in the press, the Severodvinsk-based shipyard in 2015
landed a contract for the medium repair and overhaul of the Sindhukesari
within 27 months.
The Sindhukesari will be the sixth Russian-built Project 877EKM (NATO
reporting name: Kilo-class) submarine to be upgraded by Zvyozdochka.
Until now, the shipyard, a specialist in nuclear submarine repair and
disposal, has modernized five Indian Navy boats since 1997 - the Sindhuvir,
Sindhuratna, Sindhugosh, Sindhuvijay and Sindhurakshak. The company
also has repaired and upgraded the INS Sindhukirti at her home station,
Vizakhapatnam. The Sindhukesari build by the Leningrad Admiralty Association
(now Admiralty Wharfs) in 1988 will undergo her second medium repair.
Her first upgrade was in St. Petersburg in 1999-2001.
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