17.01.2012
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Photo: Frigate INS
Teg.
"Frigate INS
Teg left the shipyard's quay and headed for Russia's westernmost port Baltiysk via Kaliningrad seaway canal. The ship is planned to enter the Baltic Sea on Jan 17 to pass final stage of state sea trials", specified Mikhailov.
The spokesman for
Yantar shipyard specified that since Sept 2011 when INS
Teg took the sea for the first time, all shipboard systems and arms have been tested at sea. First launches of Russian-Indian cruise missiles
BrahMos were held successfully as well.
Indian crew will settle on the ship late Jan 2012. Baltic Fleet servicemen who have spend the whole trials on board the ship will conduct appropriate briefing, train their Indian colleagues, and share first experience of the ship's operation. "The next stage will be acceptance process and delivery of the frigate to India", Mikhailov said. As for him, INS
Teg is supposed to join Indian Navy in Apr 2012.
Frigate INS
Teg was laid down at
Yantar shipyard in mid-2007. Other two frigates of that trio – INS
Tarkash and INS
Trikand – have been already launched and are being currently outfitted.
Tarkash and
Teg are to be delivered in 2012, and
Trikand – in 2013.
The $1.6-bln contract for second 3-ship batch for Indian Navy was signed on July 14, 2007 in Delhi. According to the first contract tied in 1997, Russia built and handed over to India three frigates – INS
Tabar, INS
Trishul, and INS
Talwar.
New frigates differ from the previous ones in armament and equipment. In particular, they are armed with supersonic cruise missiles
BrahMos with flight range up to 300 km.
JSC
Yantar Shipyard was established on July 8, 1945 and is specialized in construction of small- and middle-size warships and civil vessels, as well as ship-repair works. Through its history, the yard has built 154 warships and over 500 civil vessels. At present, the government represented by JSC
Western Shipbuilding Center (affiliate of United Shipbuilding Corporation)is major shareholder of JSC
Yantar, reports
ITAR-TASS.
