According to the source, a group of ships and submarines will go from the Baltic to the points of permanent deployment in the Far East approximately in May
MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Two submarines of the project 636.3 "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", as well as the corvette of the project 20385 "Gremyashchy", built by St. Petersburg shipbuilders for the Pacific Fleet (TOF), will go to the Far East via the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"Of the several possible routes for the inter-fleet passage of submarines and corvettes, the preference is still given to the Mediterranean," he said.
According to him, a group of ships and submarines of the Pacific Fleet will go from the Baltic to the points of permanent deployment in the Far East approximately in May. It will be accompanied by support vessels-tugs and a tanker.
He recalled that Vietnamese submarines built at the Admiralty Shipyards (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) were delivered to Cam Ranh by Dutch lighters (self-propelled floating docks), two on each. They followed around Africa. Two multi-purpose nuclear submarines "Bratsk" and "Samara" were delivered to the Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka"by lighter, but along the Northern Sea Route.
Submarines and corvettes for the Pacific Fleet
The submarines of the project 636.3 were developed in the Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering "Rubin". The contract for the construction of six diesel-electric submarines of project 636.3 for the Pacific Fleet was signed in September 2016. The first two submarines - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov-were laid down at the Admiralty Shipyards on July 28, 2017.
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was launched on March 28, 2019. After passing the tests on November 25, 2019, the submarine was accepted into the Russian Navy. Volkhov was launched on December 26, 2019, and transferred to the fleet on October 24, 2020.
Earlier, Admiralty Shipyards built a series of submarines of projects 636 and 636M for the Chinese Navy, a series of six submarines of project 636.3 for the Black Sea Fleet, six submarines of project 636.1 for the Vietnamese Navy and four submarines of project 636.1 for the Algerian Navy. Russian submarines are carriers of Kalibr-PL cruise missiles, while foreign submarines carry the Club-S missile system.
The Project 20385 Gremyashchy corvette was built at the Severnaya Verf and delivered to the customer on December 29, 2020. It is the forerunner of the Project 20380 corvettes, which are armed with Uranus anti-ship missiles. "Gremyashchy" is a carrier of cruise missiles "Kalibr-NK" and/or "Onyx", and in the future will receive a hypersonic "Zircon".
