It is expected that the rescue vessel will be in dock for two months. During this period except for sonar equipment, other components will also be installed, such as diving bell well, outboard fittings, as well as shell plating will be painted. At the same time all the outfitting works and certification will be conducted.
One more RB-401 tugboat, serial No. 939 of Type 90600 to be delivered in 2013 was launched. It is expected to deliver the tugboat to the port Baltiysk till the end of this year where it will be put into service for the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation, as reported by the press office of Pella Leningrad Shipyard.
Specifications:
- LOA: 25.4 m
- BOA: 8.8 m
- Draught: 4.2 m
- Speed: 11.8 knots
- Class notation: КМ Arc4 R3 Aut3 Tug (classified by the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping)
- Propulsion system: US 155 steerable rudder propeller unit by Rolls-Royce, shrouded fixed blade propeller
- Capacity: 2х746 kW at 1800 rounds/min, Caterpillar С32.
On 24 September ZNT Yard launched the second serial inshore boat for integrated search-and-rescue support of Type 23040, as reported by the press office of the Yard. The boat of Type 23040 is a modified vessel of ten diving boats of Type А160 (serial No. 801-810) built by ZNT Yard from 2010 to 2012 for the Russian Federal Security Service as well as of the Pelican diving boat (Type ZT28D) designed by the design department of the Yard.
Specifications:
- LOA: 28.09 m
- BOA: 5.56 m
- Depth in the bow: 3.4 m
- Mean draught: 1.5 m
- Displacement, total: approx. 118 t
- Main motor: 2х441 kW
- Diesel-generator: 2х80 kW
- Emergency-harbour diesel-generator: 1х20 kW
- Speed: approx. 13.7±0.3 knots
- Crew: 3 in number
- Divers: 5 in number
In the end of this year India is going to issue a tender (Project 75(I)) for purchasing six conventional submarines for the Navy. The tender cost will be about 12 billion dollars. Russia is also interested in this tender showing the Amur-1650 submarine to Indian experts. It will compete with Scorpene, France; Type-214, Germany; and S-80, Spain submarines . Within the tender preparation, Russia notified India on the fact that the Amur-1650 diesel-electric submarines would be equipped with advanced air-independent propulsion system after 2016.
According to Kommersant , the details of new strategy for developing the United Shipbuilding Corporation till 2030 became known. Important changes will be made in the structure of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Thus, the facilities of Baltic and Admiralty Shipyards will be closed or transferred and the existing enterprises will be divided in production departments instead of regional subholdings. The investment programme of the United Shipbuilding Corporation till 2030 is one trillion roubles and 20 per cent of this amount will be provided by the state but only if the corporation gets profit of 500 billion roubles per year.
