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The newest naval armament transport "Gennady Dmitriev" of the 20360M project, built at the Vimpel shipbuilding enterprise in Rybinsk, has been sent to Sevastopol for completion. This is reported by the press service of the company.
The transport is the largest vessel built on the "Pennant" in its entire history. It was laid down on May 5, 2017 under a contract with the Ministry of Defense in 2016. She was taken out of the boathouse on March 19, 2021, launched on June 1, 2021 and was being completed afloat. After the completion of work on the "Pennant", it was sent to the delivery base in Sevastopol, where it will be retrofitted and further tested. After the transfer to the customer, "Gennady Dmitriev" will become part of the Black Sea Fleet with a deployment in Sevastopol.
The transport was named in honor of the captain of the 1st rank Gennady Dmitriev, who went from the commander of the navigational part of a small anti-submarine ship to the head of the department of state acceptance of ships of the Main Command of the Russian Navy.
The 20360M naval armament transport was developed by the Vimpel Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod) on the basis of the Dubnyak 20360 project, taking into account the requirements of the Ministry of Defense. The vessel has an ice-reinforced hull, double bottom and double sides, two cargo holds, a platform for transporting cargo in containers, a crane with a lifting capacity of 20 tons and a bow helicopter landing pad. There is a bow thruster.
The purpose is to receive ammunition from berths and transfer it to surface ships and submarines at their bases and on the high seas. The displacement is standard - 3205 tons, full - 3627 tons. The maximum length is 77.8 meters, the maximum width is 15.8 meters, the draft is 4 meters. The economic speed is 12 knots. The cruising range is 3,000 miles. Autonomy (in terms of provisions) - 30 days.
The second transport of this project for the Baltic Fleet, Vladimir Pyalov, was laid down on March 15, 2018 at the Nobel Brothers Shipyard in Rybinsk.
