New subs, new missile cruiser
Several submarines and a heavy missile cruiser are among the new construction orders of the Sevmash yard.
During his visit to Severodvinsk Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed seven contracts on the development and construction of new Navy vessels. Among them is a contract on the serial production of the multi-purpose project 885 M “Yasen” class sub, a government press release informs.
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The yard will also develop a new socalled “light-version” of the missile cruiser of the project 1144.2, the same class as the Northern Fleet’s “Peter the Great“.
The contracts also includes the development of a new 955A “Borey” class strategic sub, as well as an upgrade of the “Novomoskovsk” Delta-IV sub, a press release from the Government confirms. The contracts signed in Severodvinsk this week have a total cost frame of 280 billion RUB (€6.72 billion) and are part of the 4.7 trillion RUB (€110 billion) investments in new Navy hardware which is planned for the period 2011-2020, Putin said in Severodvinsk.
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-I am confident that the implementation of this unprecedented program, both in terms of tasks and allocated resources will allow us to make a full-fledged rearmament of the Army and the Fleet, in a substantial way renew the material and technical base of the Navy, create a group of strategic marine nuclear forces of fourth generation submarines, acquire modern surface vessels, modernize and repair the current technical base”, Putin underlined in his meeting with yard and Navy representatives.
He also confirmed that the Ministry of Defence will allow the yard to have a 30 – and even up to 35 percent – profitability in the construction orders.
As BarentsObserver has reported, the Ministry of Defence has long negotiated with the navy yards over conditions on the new major construction orders.
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