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The shipbuilding enterprise "Severnaya Verf" is currently building 24 ships, including six frigates of project 22350, including a modernized project. This was told by the general director of the Northern Shipyard Igor Orlov.
SSZ Severnaya Verf is building six frigates of project 22350, the ships are at various stages of construction. The first military will receive the Admiral Golovko frigate, then, according to the plan, the transfer of the Admiral Isakov frigate to the fleet, and then the Admiral Amelko and Admiral Chichagov frigates of the modernized project 22350.
The first fleet will receive the frigate Admiral Golovko, the ship will be handed over to the military by the end of the year. Then the Northern Shipyard will hand over the Admiral Isakov, which will be the last ship of the basic configuration of the project 22350. It is planned to transfer it to the fleet in 2024. At the same time, the military should receive the first modernized frigate Admiral Amelko. The transfer of another frigate of the modernized Admiral Chichagov project is planned for 2025.
- TASS quotes the words of the head of the Northern Shipyard.
The ships of project 22350 have a displacement of 5 thousand tons with a length of 135 m and a width of 16 m . The frigate is capable of traveling 4,500 miles, while developing a speed of up to 29 knots. The autonomy of swimming is 30 days. The crew is from 170 people. The frigate is armed with: 130-mm A-192 artillery installation, the Poliment-Redut anti-aircraft missile system; launchers for 16 Onyx or Kalibr anti-ship missiles, the Paket anti-submarine complex, and the Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopter.
The frigates of the upgraded project will receive a larger displacement and enhanced shock armament in the form of 32 vertical universal launchers of the UKSK complex instead of 16, as in the basic version.