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Indian Navy Urgently Needs New MCM Vessels
The Indian Navy (IN) urgently needs new blue-water mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels, according to local media and experts.
19 February 2020
The Indian Navy (IN) urgently needs new blue-water mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels, according to local media and experts.
The Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvette Odintsovo built by the Pella Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia has started dock trials to check the operation of some life support, radio navigation and communication systems and the main powerplant, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
All Nanuchka III-class small missile ships (corvettes) of project 1234 of the 114th brigade of the Pacific fleet will be upgraded. They will get new arms and radars, communications, and economical and powerful diesel engines.
The Admiral Golovko frigate of project 22350 with a completely Russian-made power plant will be launched by July 1, Severnaya verf Shipyard CEO Igor Ponomarev told TASS.
The overhaul of the Tiger (K-154 Tigr) nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) of project 971 (Akula-class) is to be completed by the end of 2023. The SSN has not made any sorties since 2010s. Three years ago, it was towed to the shipyard in Snezhnogorsk. The overhaul will increase its might due to Kalibr missiles, the Izvestia daily writes.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard floated the Yakov Balyaev Alexandrite-class minesweeper of project 12700, the enterprise said.
Sevmash Shipyard held a ceremony to float the Novosibirsk K-573 first serial SSGN of Yasen-M-class project 885M on December 25, 2019.
The Amur Shipyard laid the third Karakurt-class corvette of project 22800. The Navy commander-in-chief ruled to call it the Ussuriisk, the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said.
The Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia is planning to deliver four nuclear-powered submarines to the Navy in 2020, Shipyard CEO Mikhail Budnichenko told TASS.
The Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov will be taken out of the dock in 2020, CEO of the Sevmash Shipyard Mikhail Budnichenko told TASS.
