Yantar Shipyard Completes Two Frigates for Indian Navy Under New Hull Numbers
Yantar Shipyard (Kaliningrad, Russia) holds on completion of two Project 11356 Burevestnik-class ships. The yard reports on the web public procurement portal that the matter is outfitting work on two frigates, hull numbers 01457 and 01458.Being interviewed on March 24, the shipyard’s CEO Eduard Efimov announced the entry of an export contract for 2 ships into force. He said the works thereon contract were ongoing , and therefore the funding schedules had been already approved. along side construction of two Project 11711 landing ships of the second series, this order is that the Yantar’s primary income source. Chronology Upon settlement of variety of discords, within the fall of 2018 Moscow and New Delhi signed a set of shipbuilding contracts regarding four Project 11356 frigates. On November 23, the president of United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexey Rakhmanov stated that the corporate was getting to meet the 36-month deadline. In February 2020, Federal Service for Military & Technical Cooperation reported about the plans to provide India with two frigates [initially keel-laid under names of Admiral Butakov and Admiral Istomin – editor’s remark] within the primary half 2014. India’s Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) will build other two ships under a technology transfer agreement. All four frigates are going to be powered by Ukrainian-made engines. The GSL’s official Mahesh Malkarnekar told Mil.Press at the Army-2019 forum that the Indian shipyard would lay down the 2 ships in 2020, roughly half a year apart. When the contract is completed, the fleet of India-operated Burevestnik-class frigates will amount to 10 hulls. In the Russian Navy, Project 11356 frigates are going to be replaced by Project 20386 corvettes, Vladimir Tryapichnikov heading the Russian Navy’s Shipbuilding, Weaponry & Operation Dept shared with Mil.Press in May 2019. For reference Displacement of Project 11356 frigates (in Indian Navy, missile frigates) is 4,000 tons, max speed is 30 knots, endurance is 30 days. Onboard weapons include: 100-mm artillery mount A-190, defense artillery/missile systems, torpedo and ASW warfare facilities, and long-range cruise missiles Caliber-NK (for Indian Navy, BrahMos). Each frigate accommodates one Ka-27 or Ka-31 helicopter.
