As per the State Armament Programme 2013, the Caspian Fleet will include five surface ships and boats as well as two auxiliary ships. In summer, Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant will provide two new small missile ships (Uglich and Grad Sviyazhsk). The plant also buils a high-speed manoeuvreable bark anti-saboteur boat Grachonok. In addition, in spring, Volga Shipyard, Nizhny Novgorod, will deliver three air-cavern landing boats (Type Serna) to the Caspian Fleet. Apart from warships, auxiliary ships are being renewed. Various shipbuilding plants will provide one floating crane, one harbour tug and two sea tugs. In 2013, the Fleet will receive a floating crane (Type 20360). For the search and rescue activity, the Astrakhan branch of Zvezdochka Shiprepair Centre is being built a rescue and salvage ship (Type 22870).
Motovilikha Plants will equip the Russian Navy with a new gun mount. The Universal shipborne gun mount manufactured by Motovilikha Plants passed the state trials, as reports Kommersant. The gun mount having a code name A190-01KCh, is a single-barreled turret-type 100-calibre mount, with a range of fire over 20 km. The gun mount may be used against all kinds of enemy interference. It is designed to be installed on board ships with displacement of over 500 tons.
