TASS:
SEVASTOPOL, December 10. /TASS/. The Russian Navy has launched its rearmament with warships designated for their operation in long-distance maritime and oceanic zones and is set to get such large displacement vessels in the next five years, Navy Shipbuilding Chief Rear Admiral Vladimir Tryapichnikov said on Monday.
“It [the naval shipbuilding program] is being implemented stage by stage. Currently, the serial construction of new-generation green-water warships has been launched and simultaneously blue-water warships are being designed. In the immediate future, the serial construction of blue-water large-displacement surface combatants will be launched,” the Navy shipbuilding chief said at the ceremony of accepting the missile corvette Orekhovo-Zuyevo for service in the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
In the next five years, the Russian Navy will be accepting frigates of the Admiral Gorshkov class and also large amphibious assault ships similar to the Ivan Gren type (Project 11711), he said, without specifying the timeframe for other categories of warships.
