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Few surface combattants and have lost 3 Grigorovich ( for India ) and Gorchkov more long than planned in fact only Corvettes.

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Russian shipbuilding: 2016, a year of transition

The year 2015 was characterized by few admissions to active duty and barely more stakes, which contrasted after a much better year 2014. In addition to this pitfall were added the repercussions of the Ukrainian crisis which led to the breakdown of military-technical cooperation between Russia and Ukraine, as well as uncertainties linked to the deterioration of the economic situation. While industrial and budgetary questions remain, 2016 will nevertheless see a slight rebound in the tempo of the Russian shipyards. Will this relative improvement be sustainable?

Even though improvements can be seen in relation to the decade 2000, it is nevertheless true that the pace of construction and delivery of the units remains too irregular. Although there are exceptions (SSK of Project 0636.3), there are still too many delays, especially for surface ships and certain submarine programs (SSGN of Project 885 in particular). This has recently led the Russian Defense Minister to demand that OSK (the Russian shipbuilding consortium) comply with all its contractual commitments. Russia's shipbuilding industry is still struggling to meet its import substitution targets, especially in the high-tech sector. Two approaches are currently being considered to offset the closure of western shipbuilding sources: to include Rostek in the ship design and construction cycle, and to increase the share of civilian buildings in the worksite load schedule. The integration of the Russian conglomerate for high technology would thus aim to promote the attraction of foreign technologies and know-how in shipbuilding by creating synergies. The second track has a double interest: through the construction of civilian ships of high tonnage, the shipyards gain experience while being able to import the technologies necessary to honor the contracts. Sevmash (Severodvinsk) recently announced that it wants to raise the civil contract rate from 10% currently to 50% by 2030. Sevmash, whose load plan is filled until 2025, probably anticipates a better breakdown Of state orders on other construction centers. Finally, Russian industrialists seem to have succeeded in overcoming the challenges of maintaining and repairing Ukrainian gas turbines (without having developed a native gas turbine). We had an article on this subject in March 2016; Frigate Yaroslav Mudriy (Project 11540, Baltic Fleet), after having undergone long repairs on its propulsion system, took off last October for a long cruise which led to the waters of the Baltic Sea. Caribbean. The repairs, carried out by the industrialists Novik (Moscow) and Kuznetsov (Samara) seem to have held.

Cargo holds and active service admissions in 2016

Submarines

In 2016, Russian shipyards will have delivered 2 submarines. SSK B-268 Velikiy Novgorod and B-271 Kolpino (Project 0636.3) were delivered by the Admiralty Shipyard (St. Petersburg) on 26 October and 24 November 2016. The B-271 Shipyard to close the command of 6 SSK passed by the Russian Mindef for the Black Sea Fleet. The long-term completion of this order confirms the good health of the Russian shipbuilding sector in submarines. The batch of 6 submersibles was built with an average of just over 31 months per unit (the "record" being held by the construction time of B-265 Krasnodar: 21 months). The outlook for the Admiralty Shipyard is good as it will be responsible for the construction of an additional 6 SSKs for the Pacific Fleet. The first lay-off must take place in autumn 2017 with SAAs scheduled for the period 2019-2021.
Two nuclear submarines have been laid down by Sevmash (Severodvinsk) this year: SNLE Kniaz Pojarsky (Project 955A, scheduled for 23.12) and SSGN Perm (Project 885A, 31.07.2016). The Yasen series (Project 885) is still experiencing so many delays: the launch of the second, the K-561 Kazan, announced in December 2016, will take place instead in 2017. On the other hand, Better, although there are also delays. The launch of the Kniaz Pojarsky - the 8th and final submarine of the BLEI-type SNLE series ordered to date - was scheduled to take place in December 2015 with an ASA planned in 2020. The calendar has now slipped from Less) one year.

Outlook for 2017:
- the launching of the SNLE Kniaz Vladimir, the first modernized Boreï (Project 955A).
- launch of the K-561 Kazan and possibly that of the 3rd Yasen unit, K-573 Novosibirsk.
- hypothetical launch of the Khabarovsk nuclear submarine (unknown project).
- the start of the construction of the 6 Kilo type SSK for the Pacific fleet.

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Surface

To date, the Russian shipyards have delivered 3 surface vessels to the Ministry of Defense: 2 Project 11356M frigates, Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen, both built by Yantar (Kaliningrad), and the minesweeper Alexander Oboukhov (Project 12700), built by Pontonny (Srednie Nevsky). This last building has a hull made of fiberglass composite materials, which will contribute to its lifespan while decreasing its displacement. The frigate Admiral Grigorovich this year had his "baptism of fire", since she was engaged in Russian operations in Syria and fired Kalibr missiles from the eastern Mediterranean.
In the last days of 2016, there are uncertainties about the delivery of 4 units announced for this year (after some postponements): the frigates Amiral Makarov (Project 11356M, Yantar) and Admiral Gorchkov (Project 22350, shipyard St. Petersburg), the large landing craft Ivan Gren (Project 11711, Yantar), and the corvette Sovershenny (Project 20380, Amor Shipyard, Komsomolsk s / Amour). In the latter case, it would seem that the delivery was still postponed (!). It has been under construction for more than 10 years (June 2006). There is every reason to believe that the first 3 units will be admitted to active service in 2017.
Nearly eight surface ships were stowed in 2016 by the Russian shipyards: the Rezkiy corvettes (Project 20380, the Amour shipyard) and Derzhkiy (Project 20386, Northern shipyard), the patrollers of Project 22160 Pavel Derzhavin, Sergei Kotov and Viktor Velikiy (all scheduled for the Black Sea Fleet), and 3 small missile launchers of Project 22800 (Shtorm, Shkval and Bouria). The Bouria is to be put on hold on 24.12 by the shipyard Pella (St. Petersburg) where the Shtorm and two other units are built. The Shkval is built by More (Féodossia, Crimea). The Ivan Khurs, the second unit of Project 18280 (Information Collector Ship), launched the shipyard in October. The pace of construction of these small units seems relatively satisfactory (except for the appalling case of the shipyard of Amour where one is in the framework of an operation to keep building capacities through a few contracts) . These buildings are equipped with Russian diesel turbines. Only the missile corvettes of Project 21631 and those of Project 20385 were equipped with turbines purchased from the German MTU, which is no longer the case. In the case of Project 21631, the first contract is nearing completion and a second set of buildings is expected to be started in 2017.
The Russian shipyards will therefore have no frigates in 2016, due in part to the uncertainty surrounding the development of indigenous gas turbines instead of Ukrainian turbines. That said, the excuse of the turbine, while very real, also makes it possible to achieve valuable savings. The 4th frigate of Project 22350, Admiral Yumachev was due to be started this year: it was not. With respect to the last 3 units of Project 11356M, the two existing ones (Admiral Boutakov and Admiral Istomin) could either be resold to India or kept pending delivery of appropriate turbines by the Russian Saturn. The 6th could be started under an Indian contract.
Outlook for 2017:
- an increase in the number of small heavily armed fighting units instead of fewer first-tier units due to the absence of gas turbines.
- the development by Saturn of a Russian gas turbine model
- the construction of the second series of missile launcher corvettes of Project 21631
- the Indian project frigate contract 11356M
- the continuation of the program of modernization of the large surface ex-Soviet buildings (Projects 1164, 1144, 1155) to compensate for the lack of offshore capacities

Conclusion

The year 2016 will thus have been a year of transition for the Russian naval industry. Transition because the Russian industrialists absorbed the double shock that broke the cooperation with Ukraine and that of the economic crisis. The 2018-2025 armaments program is expected to be a little more precise in the light of the stabilization of the economic situation and the approach of the electoral 2018. We will come back to this in the coming months. Many challenges remain, however: the gas turbines, the still problematic integration of the systems on the hulls, the repeated delays, the resurrection of the Crimean construction capacities ... However, the first results are also there: The Black Sea fleet now has its submarine of 6 SSK while its physiognomy has evolved significantly in the last 24 months with the ASA of new surface platforms. Beyond the balance of the year 2016, in recent years are also those of the rebound after the terrible double decade 1990-2000.

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We're getting a bit OT. I just quote from an article in Atimes by Ambassador Bhadrakumar:

At the end of the day, therefore, to a foreign observer, all this looks most curious. America’s political class is fighting among themselves with tooth and claw over an issue that is commonplace in the contemporary world, and in that process, their country, the ‘lone superpower’, becomes the laughing stock of the world community.

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We're getting a bit OT. I just quote from an article in Atimes by Ambassador Bhadrakumar:

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Not for you delft but Yes and they are not posts for this military thread some play...
as say recently Jeff we have others threads for various facts etc...

Without arrogant i try catch interestings things true military things... by ex the chart and it is not a good way.

So this time i report.

The Kutz will be retuning shortly to Severomorsk after her Syrian campaign and most probably begin her major refit right afterward. It will likely take many years for it to complete. Russia will be w/o an aircraft carrier for a while for the first time in many decades.

no news but an amazing view from below of the cylinders of the Fort:
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Anyone got news on the Nakhimov 11442 battlecruiser?