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Russia's Defense Ministry to Order Eight Project 23560 Leader-class Nuclear-Powered Destroyers.
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Scale model showing the Project 23560E "Shkval-class" Destroyer
(export variant of Leader-class) at Army 2016 exhibition. Twelve ships
of the 10,000t "Leader class" are planned to enter service from
2023-25, split between the Northern and Pacific Fleets. They will all
be nuclear powered. They will be fitted with the ABM-capable S-500 SAM
and Kalibr (SS-N-27) cruise missile. |
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According
to him, the Severnoye Design Bureau is to complete the destroyer’s
preliminary design in the fourth quarter of 2017, after which the military
will place a contract for a series of Leaders with the United Shipbuilding
Corporation. "The building of the lead ship is to begin in early 2018 and end by late 2022, i.e. it will take five years," the source said. |
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Scale model showing the Project 23560E "Shkval-class" Destroyer
(export variant of Leader-class) at Army 2016 exhibition. Twelve ships
of the 10,000t "Leader class" are planned to enter service from
2023-25, split between the Northern and Pacific Fleets. They will all
be nuclear powered. They will be fitted with the ABM-capable S-500 SAM
and Kalibr (SS-N-27) cruise missile. |
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"Initially,
a 12-ship series had been planned for the Navy, but later the number was
reduced to eight - four destroyers for the Northern Fleet and four for
the Pacific one. There will be no Leader destroyers in the inventories
of the Baltic and Black Sea fleets," the source added. He said the Leader would carry the Kalibr (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler) and Oniks (SS-N-26 Strobile) missile systems, S-500 Premetei and Poliment-Redut surface-to-air missile systems (the latter is in trials on board the lead ship of the Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov series) and Pantsir-M (SA-22 Greyhound) air defense gun/missile system. TASS has no official confirmation of the information. © Copyright 2016 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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