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Russian Shipbuilders to Launch Sixth Project 636.3 Submarine Kolpino on May 31st
Russian Shipbuilders to Launch Sixth Project 636.3 Submarine Kolpino on May 31st
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Russian Shipbuilders to Launch Sixth Project 636.3 Submarine Kolpino
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May 31st
The
sixth Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarine Kolpino designed
for the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be put afloat in St. Petersburg
in northwest Russia on May 31, a source in the Russian Navy Main Command
told TASS on Thursday. "The submarine Kolpino is planned to
be floated out on May 31," the source said.
The fifth Project 636.3 conventional submarine Veliky Novgorod
As Russia’s United Ship-Building Corporation
told TASS, the diesel-electric submarine Kolpino is expected to be put
afloat in May. However, the Corporation did not specify the exact date.
In all, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is expected to receive six Project
636.3 diesel-electric submarines. The submarines developed by the Rubin
Design Bureau are under construction at the Admiralty Wharves Shipyard
in St. Petersburg.
The fifth Project 636.3 submarine Veliky Novgorod designed for the Black
Sea Fleet was floated out on March 18.
Like the submarine Kolpino, the submarine Veliky Novgorod is expected
to be delivered to the Russian Navy before the end of 2016.
As of today, the Russian Navy operates four Project 636.3 submarines.
The Russian Navy received the first two submarines, the Novorossiysk
and the Rostov-on-Don, in 2014 and the other two, the Stary Oskol and
the Krasnodar, in 2015.
In late 2015, the submarine Rostov-on-Don launched Kalibr cruise missiles
from the Mediterranean Sea to destroy facilities of the Islamic State
terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in Syria.