MOSCOW, April 15-RIA Novosti. The project of construction of the destroyer "Leader" for the Russian Navy is unlikely to be implemented, said in an interview with RIA Novosti General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.
Initially, the " Leader "was planned to be laid in 2017, but construction has not yet begun. There is also no technical project of the destroyer, the former deputy commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy for armament Viktor Bursuk said that the document should have been developed in 2019-2020.
Admiral Viktor Chirkov, when he was the commander-in-chief of the Navy, stressed that a new-generation destroyer should have a nuclear power plant, its displacement should be about 14 thousand tons.
Later, a number of media outlets reported on the decision to increase the displacement to 19 thousand tons. There were two possible versions of the ship: the first-with a displacement of 10-12 thousand tons with a gas turbine power plant and the second – 18-19 thousand tons with a nuclear power plant.
Currently, the Russian Navy has one surface ship with a nuclear power plant - the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".
