Moscow. July 7. INTERFAX-Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov checked at the Sevmash plant (Severodvinsk) the course of modernization of the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" and said that the military expects to receive the nuclear submarines planned for delivery this year.
"On the Sevmash, the commander - in-chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, checked the progress of the repair and modernization of the Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear missile cruiser, "the information department of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
"I am confident that the 2021 delivery program for nuclear submarines of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects will be fully implemented. We are closely cooperating on this program with the United Shipbuilding Corporation and the management of Sevmash, " Yevmenov said after the meeting in Severodvinsk.
The cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is currently undergoing a deep modernization. The ship should return to the Russian Navy at the end of 2022, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said in December 2020.
The Defense Ministry said that the Admiral Nakhimov will become the most modern cruiser of the Russian Navy. In particular, it will be armed with "Zircons "(a new Russian hypersonic missile, being tested, the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation, KTRV) and" Calibers "(a family of cruise missiles developed by the Novator Design Bureau, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region).
On June 10, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax that he expects to transfer two new nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy this year - the strategic submarine of the Borey-A project" Prince Oleg "and the multi-purpose project" Yasen-M ""Novosibirsk".
"We are doing everything to ensure that they are handed over this year," Rakhmanov said.
A series of nuclear-powered submarines of the fourth generation of the Borey and Borey-A project, armed with Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, will become the basis of naval strategic nuclear forces for the coming decades, the Russian military said.
The fourth generation includes multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project 885M-carriers of Onyx and/or Kalibr cruise missiles. It was reported about plans to arm them with hypersonic missiles "Zircon".
On May 7, the Kazan multi-purpose submarine, which is the main one in the Yasen-M project, was accepted into the combat structure of the Russian Navy. "Kazan" was launched in 2017, the deadline for completing its tests was repeatedly postponed.
In December 2020, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko announced that the production capacities of the Sevmash plant are fully loaded with orders of the Ministry of Defense until 2027. Sevmash will annually transfer one nuclear submarine of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects to the Russian Navy. "It is planned to build 14 submarines," Boreyev "and" Ash", " Krivoruchko said then.
