Last time, the
Russian Navy received the same number of submarines in 1992.
MOSCOW, August 23.
/TASS/. The Russian Navy will receive six submarines, including four
nuclear-powered subs in 2020 for the first time over the past 28 years, a
source in the domestic defense industry told TASS on Friday.
Last time, the Russian
Navy received the same number of submarines in 1992. After that, domestic
shipbuilders delivered two-three subs to the Russian Navy a year while in
1997-2012, Russia’s subsurface force could get one submarine a year at best or
no sub at all. Since 2013, new submarines have been regularly arriving for the
Russian Navy. Specifically, four submarines joined the Russian Navy in 2014.
"Under the
contracts, the Sevmash [Shipyard] is due to deliver the first Project 955A
serial-produced submarine Knyaz Oleg [Prince Oleg] and the first Project 885M
serial-produced sub Novosibirsk to the Navy in 2020. Also, the Sevmash will
deliver the Project 885M lead submarine Kazan and the Project 09852
special-purpose nuclear-powered submarine Belgorod to the Navy," the
source said.
The submarine
Belgorod will enter service with the Defense Ministry’s Deep-Water Research
Department without Poseidon underwater drones since their trials are still
underway, the source specified.
In turn, the
Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia will deliver two
diesel-electric submarines to the Navy: the Project 636.3 submarine Volkhov and
the first Project 677 serial-produced sub Kronshtadt, although with a standard
rather than an air-independent propulsion power plant, the source said.
Responding to a TASS
request to comment on the information provided by the source, Russia’s United
Shipbuilding Corporation noted that "the corporation delivers all the
vessels to the state customer in compliance with the agreed schedules."
Plans for 2019
Russian shipbuilders
are set to deliver two submarines to the Navy by the end of this year. Sevmash
CEO Mikhail Budnichenko said in June that the Navy would get the Project 955A
lead submarine Knyaz Vladimir (Prince Vladimir) by the end of 2019. In March this
year, Admiralty Shipyard Head Alexander Buzakov said that the shipbuilders
would deliver the first Project 636.3 submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the
Pacific Fleet this year.
Russian Defense
Minister Sergei Shoigu earlier stated that one diesel-electric sub and two
nuclear-powered submarines would arrive for the Navy by the end of this year.
As another source told TASS, "the sub Kazan was expected to be one of such
nuclear-powered submarines but its delivery was re-scheduled for 2020."
During the Soviet
period, shipbuilders delivered more than 10 submarines to the Navy in some
years. Specifically, in 1971, the Soviet Navy received 12 various
nuclear-powered submarines alone from the defense industry.
Source: ITAR-TASS
23-08-2019
