Moscow. November 14th. INTERFAX - The next serial mine defense ship of the 12700 project "Anatoly Shlemov" is to be launched on November 26, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
"It is planned that on November 26 in St. Petersburg at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, the next serial mine defense ship of the 12700 project "Anatoly Shlemov" will be launched. The ship, after completion work and all stages of testing, will subsequently replenish the minesweeping forces of the Pacific Fleet," Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, said following a working meeting where issues of surface shipbuilding were considered.
On November 11, shipbuilders of the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) took the ship of the Anatoly Shlemov PMO out of the workshop.
Specialists of the shipyard have completed work on the formation of the hull and part of the superstructure of the ship, saturating them with systems and mechanisms. Further completion work will be carried out outside the workshop. The factory workers will have to complete the formation of the superstructure of the minesweeper, carry out the installation of a tower-mast device, antenna equipment and ship-wide systems, the department reports.
The ship of the PMO "Anatoly Shlemov" was laid down in July 2019. It became the seventh ship of the project 12700 line, the construction of which the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard is commissioned by the Russian Navy. The ship is named in honor of the honored shipbuilder who worked in various positions in the Main Directorate of Shipbuilding of the Navy, as well as the director of the State Defense Order Department of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Vice Admiral Anatoly Fedorovich Shlemov.
The 12700 project was developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) for the Russian Navy. These ships belong to a new generation of minesweeping forces and are designed to combat sea mines, which new PMO ships can detect both in the water of marine waters and in the sea soil without entering the danger zone. To combat mines, ships can use various types of trawls, as well as remote-controlled and autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles.
During the construction of such ships at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, the latest Russian technologies are used, which have no analogues in the world shipbuilding. The ships of this project have a unique, the world's largest hull made of monolithic fiberglass formed by vacuum infusion. The mass of such a case is significantly lower compared to a metal one, while its strength increases significantly. The case is not afraid of corrosion, and the service life, subject to the norms of operation, is unlimited.