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Yantar shipyard prepares new Indian frigate for mooring trials

Yantar shipyard prepares new Indian frigate for mooring trials 08.12.2010
Text: Vesti.Ru
Photo: Frigate built for Indian Navy. vesti.ru
Shipwrights of Yantar shipyard (Kaliningrad) prepare the next Indian frigate for mooring trials. Wood paneling of the frigate's interior compartments have been already started. Even the state-of-the-art frigate can't do without that.

Smell of freshly sawed wood and the ship built under stealth technology seem incompatible. Really, this time-proved construction material is widely used in defense shipbuilding now.

Viktor Lubnin is ship carpenter. There are only 15 such specialists in Yantar shipyard. Today he is planking the walls of provision store with pinewood boards. The wood is treated with special incombustible mixture, so Indian fire control inspectors will have nothing to cavil. Other compartments will be also wood-planked.

However, what shipwrights are stuck in at the second Indian frigate is laying of feeder cable. The work is humming both in command station, in machinery compartment, and in living quarters. It is warm and even homely inside the metal hull. The construction work did not stop even in frosty weather – they were held inside the ship.

Assembling of electronic equipment is being performed simultaneously with cable-laying works. These operations must be completed till late April or early May of 2011. After that the ship will be supplied with electric power.

In fact, that will mean the beginning of mooring trials. By the way, use of standard ventilation and air conditioning systems will make the shipwrights' work more comfortable. They still recall last summer when most of works were done in nighttime because of abnormal hot weather.

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