Russia Lays down New Warship at Baltic Shipyard
KALININGRAD, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
Construction of a Project 11356 frigate was launched at the Yantar shipyard in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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The Krivak IV class Admiral Makarov frigate is the last in a series of three frigates the shipyard is building under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry.
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The ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who said that Russia “must have a powerful navy.”
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The first two ships in the series, the Admiral Grigorovich and the Admiral Essen, are at different stages of completion.
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All three warships are expected to be delivered to the Russian Navy in 2013-2014.
In 2011, the Yantar shipyard received a new order for another three Krivak IV class frigates.
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A Krivak IV class frigate carries a 100-mm gun, a Shtil medium-range air defense system, Club-N supersonic anti-ship missiles, two Kashtan point defense systems, two twin 533-mm torpedo launchers, and an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.
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