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sndef888 said:

Also, anybody knows what Russian combat ship numbers will be like by around 2030? Not sure if numbers will drop judging by how many gorshkov frigates and corvettes the russian navy is building

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I would say about 6-8 Admiral Gorshkov class frigates by 2030. It could be more but I think 8 will be the maximum available by then.
If there are no issues and they increased the production rate, or added another shipyard to the production of this ship, it could be like 12 ships. But I would not count on it at all. There is only one thing the Russian shipbuilding industry has produced so far and it is disappointment. The amount of corvettes depends on a lot of factors.

sndef888 said:

Also, I recently read that Russia apparently has inland waterways that connect the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Baltic Sea and Murmansk.
Will these waterways be used in war to transport warships? Has the Russian Navy been using these waterways or are they purely commercial?

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Yes the waterways can be used by the smaller corvette type ships like the Buyan-M and Karakurt. These are shallow draft vessels.
These corvettes have eight UKSK VLS cells each and so can fire the Kalibr, Oniks missiles and likely the Zircon once it is available.
If they are part of an integrated combat system which can provide them with target data they can be quite dangerous to other ships.

sndef888 said:

Anyone have a breakdown of the aircraft? 257 seems like a lot

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some of the 257 will be modernized like MIG-31/Su-25. but they are not much left.

they already producing more than 12 upgraded engines for Tu-160M per year and production will be increased further.
and there is another engine coming for new bomber. since they are increasing longest range aircraft seems they are sufficient with fighter production.

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UEC-Kuznetsov expanded production capacity​

The Samara enterprise of the United Engine Corporation Rostec is expanding the capacity of test benches for aircraft engines - in the first year of deliveries alone, more than a dozen upgraded NK-32 engines were shipped. A new fuel supply system was put into operation.

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Further in his speech, Alexey Sobolev mentioned another important program - the Perspective Aviation Complex of Long-Range Aviation. In its interests, Samara specialists have developed a new product on the basis of the NK-32-02 gas generator - it has been assigned the “RF” index. “The first engine in iron has been manufactured, it is being assembled, and by the end of the year it will be assembled to start bench tests,” Sobolev said.

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Anybody knows what's the deal with the Amur/Lada submarines? Heard a lot about it a few years ago but seems not much has happened. And russia is still producing upgraded kilos, so I assume the new programme has stalled?

The second one in sea trials. high degree of automation reduced crew to 35.

seem next version of IL-96 ready and is designed provision for PD-35. seem the engine is built for over 100K lbs thrust.

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Russian aerospace developers intend to use the Ilyushin Il-96 as a testbed for the high-thrust Aviadvigatel PD-35 engine
Deputy trade and industry minister Oleg Bocharov, speaking during a 20 January visit to Voronezh’s VASO aircraft plant, said the Il-96’s wing will enable the aircraft to be used as a “flying laboratory” for testing the PD-35, which will have a thrust range of 235-490kN.
Bocharov says the latest version of the four-engined widebody, the Il-96-400M, would carry out its first flight by the end of this year.
Russia’s government has approved a programme of orders for domestically-built aircraft to 2030, he adds, providing for the supply of 583 airframes. Mishustin says he expects civil aircraft construction over the next five years will exceed the rate of 100 aircraft per year.

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Finnish shipyard contracted to build Russia's first LNG powered ice breaker. What? Isn't the Russians legendary for their nuclear powered ice breakers? But its not hard to understand this. LNG is Russia's latest hottest export product and it makes sense to use whatever they have bountiful resources of, and promote anyway it can for the shipping industry to shift to LNG.

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Finnish shipyard contracted to build Russia's first LNG powered ice breaker. What? Isn't the Russians legendary for their nuclear powered ice breakers? But its not hard to understand this. LNG is Russia's latest hottest export product and it makes sense to use whatever they have bountiful resources of, and promote anyway it can for the shipping industry to shift to LNG.

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They haven't got spare capacity.

At the moment there are countles nuclear ice breaker, floating nuclear power plant, naval submairnes and surface ships and so on in the pipeline at the shipyards.

This is for the Yamal nat gas project most likelly.


And at the end of the day Russia has a big pile of euro/dollar that sitting in the bank, better to throw same of them onto the Finnish to occipy themselves with somethign that can make value for the natural gas export projects.

"There is no formal and written reply from the United States and NATO to our proposals yet. If this reply is disappointing, we will have to make serious political decisions, about which our president warned the opponents from the other side, including publicly," the senior Russian diplomat said.

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Anlsvrthng said:

They haven't got spare capacity.

At the moment there are countles nuclear ice breaker, floating nuclear power plant, naval submairnes and surface ships and so on in the pipeline at the shipyards.

This is for the Yamal nat gas project most likelly.


And at the end of the day Russia has a big pile of euro/dollar that sitting in the bank, better to throw same of them onto the Finnish to occipy themselves with somethign that can make value for the natural gas export projects.

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Yes. As explained in this video.


Gas is gold. Gas is life.