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Russian Navy Faced with Major Delays in Submarines and Surface Vessels Deliveries.
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K-84 Yekaterinburg at CS Zvezdochka, summer 2014. Picture: Zvezdochka shipyard |
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In
2015 the defense ministry again listed four submarines which have been
allegedly supplied to the Navy. Besides Stary Oskol and Krasnodar,
it might have listed multipurpose nuclear subs Gepard of project
971 and Pskov of project 945A which underwent maintenance, as
well as Vladikavkaz diesel-electric sub of project 877. In this
case there must be five submarines, Mozgovoi said. As for warships, it is difficult to say how two more vessels originated. Last year the Russian Navy received also cargo ships Dvinitsa-50, Vologda-50, Kyzyl-50 bought from Turkish ship owners, as well as Kazan-60, a former Ukrainian vessel received through a Mongolian broker. They all have a long service life and are designated to carry military cargoes from Russian Black Sea ports to the Syrian port of Tartus to provide logistical supplies to the Russian airbase in Hmeymim. Shipbuilders in Sevastopol said former Turkish freighters are in a poor technical state. They have to be repaired before and after every voyage. Some are even towed back home. The Russian Navy received quite a few tugboats, rescue, diving, hydrographic ships, bunkers and floating cranes in the past years. In 2015 there were 20 such vessels. Six warships remained at shipyards or did not complete test trials by the middle of March 2016. They are frigates Admiral Essen of project 11356 and Admiral of the Soviet Fleet Gorshkov of project 22350, corvette Sovershenny of project 20380, large landing ship Ivan Gren of project 11711, coastal minesweeper Alexander Obukhov of project 12700 and combat logistics ship Elbrus of project 23120. |
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The Admiral Grigorovich was delivered almost two years late. Picture: Yantar Shipyard |
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Lead
frigate Admiral Grigorovich of project 11356 was handed over
to the Navy on March 10, 2016 although initially it had to be delivered
yet in 2014. Nuclear submarine Kuzbass of project 971 completed maintenance in the second half of March although it had to be returned to the Pacific fleet before the end of last December. This information contradicts official data, Mozgovoi said. According to Deputy Defense Minister Borisov, besides 6-8 warships the Russian armed forces did not receive from producers 15 aircraft, 17 automatic control systems, three Rokot missile carriers and one Breeze booster, 253 various designation missiles, and 240 pieces of armored hardware and equipment. © Copyright 2015 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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