St. PETERSBURG, April 28-RIA Novosti. The mine defense ship "Pyotr Ilyichev" of the project 12700 was launched at the Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports.
"The ships of this project have already proved themselves well at sea, they are well managed, have great survivability. The series will continue... I hope that the ships will be delivered on time with high quality, " Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Evmenov said at the launch ceremony.
According to him, when creating the project 12700, the most advanced technologies were used, and these ships have no analogues in the world.
He added that the flag on the " Pyotr Ilyichev "will be raised this year-earlier than planned.
According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Georgy Poltavchenko, the ship was delivered on time and without compromising quality despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The Pyotr Ilyichev mine defense ship was laid down in July 2018. It became the sixth ship of the line of the project 12700 "Alexandrite", the construction of which is carried out by the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard on the order of the Russian Navy. Earlier, the plant handed over to the customer four ships of this project. Four more are at the plant in varying degrees of readiness.
According to the plans of the Russian Navy, the ships of this project in the future will become the basis of the minesweeping forces of the fleets, significantly increasing the efficiency of the tasks.
The Project 12700 mine defense ship was designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and is a new generation of mine defense ships. It is designed to search for and destroy mines in the waters of naval bases at a safe distance for a minesweeper. The ship's displacement is 890 tons, length-62 meters, width-10 meters, speed at full displacement-about 16 knots, crew-44 people.
The ship is equipped with the latest means of search and detection of mines, has high maneuverability and seaworthiness. This is a unique minesweeper with the world's largest hull made of monolithic fiberglass, formed by vacuum infusion. The advantage of such a case is a higher strength in comparison with steel. The service life of the monolithic fiberglass housing is longer than that of the low-magnetic steel housing, and the weight is significantly less.
