It is reported that on November 26, 2022, the Admiral Golovko frigate (factory number 923) of project 22350, built for the Russian Navy by PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation), first left St. Petersburg for factory sea trials in the Baltic Sea. This is the third ship of Project 22350.
The first entry into the factory sea trials of the Admiral Golovko frigate (factory number 923) of project 22350, built for the Russian Navy by PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf. Saint Petersburg, 11/26/2022 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru The frigate Admiral Golovko (factory number 923) was laid down at PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf on February 1, 2012.
The construction was initially carried out in accordance with the contract signed in 2011 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with the Northern Shipyard for the construction of four frigates of project 22350 (with factory numbers from 923 to 926) and eight corvettes of project 20385 for the Russian Navy by 2020, with the initial contract deadline for the frigate with factory number 923 in 2016 - later contract has been revised.
The Admiral Golovko frigate was launched on May 22, 2020. The ship entered the tests with a delay of about a year in relation to the last previously announced deadlines. The delivery of the Navy frigate, apparently, will be made only by the end of 2023.
Admiral Golovko is the first ship of Project 22350 equipped with a fully Russian-made main power plant consisting of two M55R diesel-gas turbine units (supplier - PJSC UEC-Saturn, Rybinsk). Each M55R unit includes an M90FR gas turbine engine manufactured by UEC-Saturn, a 10D49 diesel engine manufactured by Kolomenskoye Zavod JSC and a RO55 gearbox manufactured by Zvezda PJSC (St. Petersburg). The Russian-made M55R diesel-gas turbine units were loaded onto the Admiral Golovko frigate [...] in December 2020.
The lead frigate of project 22350 "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" (factory number 921), built at the Northern Shipyard, was laid down there on February 1, 2006, launched on October 29, 2010, transferred to the Russian Navy on July 28, 2018 and became part of the Northern Fleet.
The second frigate of project 22350 "Admiral of the Kasatonov Fleet" (factory number 922) was laid down at the Northern Shipyard on November 26, 2009, launched on December 12, 2014 and entered factory sea trials on December 21, 2018. The ship was commissioned into the Navy on July 21, 2020, the frigate is also part of the Northern Fleet.
Both of the first ships of project 22350 were equipped with diesel-gas turbine units M55 supplied by the Russian-Ukrainian joint venture CJSC Turborus, created by NPO Saturn and GP NPKG Zorya - Mashproekt (Nikolaev), while GP NPKG Zorya - Mashproekt acted as the actual manufacturer of the M90F gas turbine engine and gearbox RO55.
Five more frigates of Project 22350 are currently being built at the Northern Shipyard - Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov (factory number 924, laid down on November 14, 2013), Admiral Amelko (factory number 925) and Admiral Chichagov (factory number 926, both laid down on the same day on April 23, 2019), and "Admiral Yumashev" (factory number 927) and "Admiral Spiridonov" (factory number 928, both laid down on the same day on July 20, 2020).
On August 25, 2020, at the Army 2020 International Military-Technical Forum, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a state contract with the Northern Shipyard for the construction of two more frigates of project 22350.
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The first entry into the factory sea trials of the Admiral Golovko frigate (factory number 923) of project 22350, built for the Russian Navy by PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf. Saint Petersburg, 11/26/2022 (c) Curious / forums.airbase.ru The first entry into the factory sea trials of the Admiral Golovko frigate (factory number 923) of project 22350, built for the Russian Navy by PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf.
Saint Petersburg, 11/26/2022 (c) Alexey Akentiev (via Telegram channel Dambiev )Video (from) Rus Podplav :
