The exact dates of laying down the latest warships have not been defined yet, according to the source.
MOSCOW, April 27.
/TASS/. Russian shipbuilders will celebrate Victory Day on May 9 by laying down
six warships and submarines, a source in the domestic shipbuilding industry
told TASS on Tuesday.
"In early May,
two Project 955A Borei-A-class strategic nuclear-powered missile-carrying
underwater cruisers, two Project 20380 corvettes and two Project 636.3
submarines will be laid down," the source specified.
Two strategic
underwater cruisers will be laid down at the Sevmash Shipyard, two corvettes at
the Amur Shipbuilding Plant and two Varshavyanka-class conventional subs at the
Admiralty Shipyard (all these enterprises are part of Russia’s United
Shipbuilding Corporation). The exact dates of laying down the latest warships
have not been defined yet, the source said.
The Sevmash Shipyard
will lay the keels of the strategic underwater cruisers Dmitry Donskoi and
Knyaz Potyomkin while the Admiralty Shipyard will lay down the submarines
Mozhaisk and Yakutsk (the 5th and 6th vessels in a series of six Project 636.3
subs for the Russian Pacific Fleet). The corvettes expected to be laid down at
the Amur Shipbuilding Plant have not received their names yet, the source said.
The press offices of
the United Shipbuilding Corporation and its subordinate enterprises declined to
comment on this information.
This year, Russia’s
Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 76th anniversary of the
Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War
will involve over 12,000 troops, about 190 combat vehicles and 76 aircraft: 53
planes and 23 helicopters.
Source: ITAR-TASS
27-04-2021
