Two frigates of the second series of the project 11356 will finish building for India

August 23, 2017 at 15:18

Two frigates of the second series of the project 11356, laid in the Yantar Shipyard, originally for the Black Sea Fleet, will be completed, but for the Indian Navy. About itTASS Said Igor Ponomarev, vice president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation for Military Shipbuilding, during the military-technical forum "Army-2017".

"Two ships will be built for the Indian side, and one frigate will be built for the Russian Navy with new gas turbine engines," he said, stressing that the fate of the second three frigates of Project 11356, being built at the Baltic Yantar plant, is defined by the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and India .

"We expect that after the completion of the completion of three ships on the Yantar, the Russian Navy will make a decision to order at least two more frigates for this project," said USC Vice President. 

At the end of June, during the International Naval Salon in St. Petersburg, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for Armament, Vice Admiral Viktor Bursuk, told FlotProm that the second three frigates of Project 11356 - Admiral Istomin, Admiral Butakov and Admiral Kornilov - The Russian Navy. 

Six frigates of project 11356 of the Ministry of Defense ordered for two contracts concluded in 2010-2011 for a total of 80 billion rubles. The project implied the use of gas turbine power plants produced by the Ukrainian enterprise Zorya-Mashproekt. 

The first three ships received engines on time. "Zorya-Mashproekt" produced engines for the second three, but because of the conflict in Donbass, which broke out in 2014, Ukraine refused to transfer them to Russia. After that, the fate of the remaining two corps ("Admiral Istomin" and "Admiral Butakov", "Admiral Kornilov" was not formally laid) was discussed for several years. 

Viktor Bursuk's statement about the prospects for completing the frigates for the Navy was voiced after reports that the Rybinsk NPO Saturn has made significant progress in creating its own gas turbine engines for Russian ships. 

The third military-technical forum "Army" takes place from August 22 to August 27 at the "Patriot" congress and exhibition center, As well as at the Alabino training ground, Kubinka airfield, military districts and the Northern Fleet. More than 1200 Russian and foreign companies take part in the exhibition. According to the organizers of the forum, the exposition in the open air occupies 500 thousand square meters. Meters, and in pavilions - more than 100 thousand square meters. Meters. 

Information about the products that the country's defense enterprises brought to the exhibition is published in the thematic section of the site Military.RF " Forum Army ".

Translated by Google – Source: flotprom.ru

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