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Russia’s Second Gorshkov-class Frigate Completes Acceptance Trials
The second Gorshkov-class frigate (Project 22350), “Admiral Kasatonov “, completed sea acceptance trials and returned to Severnaya verf Shipyard.
9 June 2020
The second Gorshkov-class frigate (Project 22350), “Admiral Kasatonov “, completed sea acceptance trials and returned to Severnaya verf Shipyard.
Russian frigates of project 22350 will be upgraded. The Admiral Gorshkov is the first warship to get upgraded radars and electronic warfare systems.
Russia’s Sevmash Shipyard has officially handed over the first Borei-A-class submarine to the Russian Navy. The acceptance act for the ‘Knyaz Vladimir’, the first Project 955A SSBN was signed in Severodvinsk, the Defense Ministry said.
Fifteen new warships and supply vessels will operate in the Far East by the end of 2020. They include the Gremyashchy corvette of project 20385, the Pertropavlovsk-Kamchatsky diesel-electric submarine of project 636.3, the Yakov Balyaev minesweeper of project 12700, a Raptor-class countersubversion boat of project 03160, the Andrey Stepanov sea tug and two rescue boats of project 23040.
The ‘Petr Morginov’ big amphibious assault ship of project 11711 built by Yantar Shipyard began the final stage of running trials, the enterprise said.
The Baltic Shipyard laid the “Yakutia”, the fourth nuclear-powered icebreaker of project 22220, the enterprise said.
Yantar Shipyard is restoring the technical readiness of the Yantar oceanographic research vessel of project 22010, the enterprise said.
According to TASS news agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch for the construction of the first two Russian universal landing ships (UDC) or LHD for a total amount of about 100 billion rubles on May 22, 2020. This was reported to TASS by a defense industry source.
The St. Petersburg-based Severnaya Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) floated out the Project 22350 third-built and second serial-produced frigate ‘Admiral Golovko’, the Shipyard told TASS on Friday 22.
The Project 955A Borei-A class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Knyaz Vladimir (NATO reporting name: Dolgorukiy-class) has completed its sea trials and arrived in Severodvinsk in north Russia, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
