The delay with the
delivery of the lead ship has shifted the delivery of the second ship by about
eight months.
MOSCOW,
July 4. /TASS/. Shipbuilders intend to deliver the second (the first
serial-produced) Project 22350 frigate Admiral Kasatonov to the Russian Navy in
the autumn of 2019, Head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei
Rakhmanov told TASS on Wednesday.
"The second
warship of this series, the Admiral Kasatonov, was due to have been delivered
this year but considering that the ceremony of hoisting the flag aboard the
[Admiral] Gorshkov has been postponed, we simply won’t be physically able to
prepare the next ship. The delay with the delivery of the lead ship always
automatically shifts the delivery of the second ship by about eight months. So,
it turns out that we are now planning this for October-November 2019," he
said.
The head of the
United Shipbuilding Corporation said he hoped that Russian propulsion units
produced by Saturn Company would be mounted on the next warships of this series
and "delays due to engine problems will recede into the past."
Russian Navy
Shipbuilding Directorate Head Vladimir Tryapichnikov said earlier that the Navy
expected to get the Admiral Kasatonov in 2018. The frigate’s sea trials were
planned to begin in the summer of this year.
Frigate Admiral
Kasatonov
The frigate Fleet
Admiral Kasatonov is the second (the first serial-produced) Project 22350
warship. The Project was developed by the Severnoye Design Bureau. The lead
warship of this series, the Admiral Gorshkov, is expected to be delivered to
the Navy this year and the construction of two more frigates (the Admiral
Golovko and the Admiral Isakov) continues at the slipways of the Severnaya Verf
Shipyard in St. Petersburg.
Project 22350
frigates are expected to become the Russian Navy’s most advanced warships in
their class. These frigates displace 4,500 tonnes and can develop a speed of 29
knots. They are armed with Oniks and Kalibr missiles and the Poliment-Redut air
defense missile system.
Source: ITAR-TASS
04-07-2018
