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Future of two ships at Yantar shipyard is unclear

Future of two ships at Yantar shipyard is unclear 18.02.2010
Directors of Baltic shipyard Yantar (Kaliningrad, OJSC Western Shipbuilding Center) has no information about the future of uncompleted Project 11540 frigate and training ship Borodino.

Russian Navy command has not made decision on two uncompleted vessels which construction had been frozen, said Sergei Mikhailov, press secretary of Yantar shipyard. "Hopefully, both ships will be included in state defense order", underlined Mikhailov.

According to him, the shipyard has being preserved these hulls in good conditions for quite a long time investing own funds. The third Project 11540 frigate is presently at the shipyard's slip. Yakov Kushnerov, chief designer of the project said in July 2009 that design bureau had already elaborated all documents required for Navy's experts to make final decision. However, Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said in Sept that final decision on this issue had not been made for that time. The question was in the center of multilateral discussion. "We should say plainly that even in case of total upgrade that frigate would be a warship of previous age; so that's a great question whether Russian Navy needs such ship", said the commander.

The hull of training ship Borodino was laid down in 1997 as a Project 1244.1 corvette. The ship was supposed to be delivered to the Navy 2001 but construction was completely closed down. After while it was decided to redesign the project into training ship with code number 1244.1-U. Currently, the hull of Borodino is only 12% completed.

Source: Military Industrial Bulletin , photo: Project 11540 ship (atrinaflot)

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