Russian Navy Black Sea & Baltic Fleet to receive 2 Project 20360M Armament Support Ships by 2020

: Posted On Monday, 11 April 2016 09:40

Naval Forces News - Russia

Russian Navy Black Sea & Baltic Fleet to receive 2 Project 20360M Armament Support Ships by 2020

The Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk in central Russia will build two Project 20360M armament support ships for the Russian Defense Ministry before 2020, shipyard spokeswoman Tatyana Gerasimova told TASS on Friday. "Two Project 20360M armament support ships have received factory numbers No. 01551 and 01552. They are expected to be delivered to the customer in 2019 and 2020, respectively," the spokeswoman said.

CGI of Project 20360M armament support ships. Picture: Vympel Shipyard

"The lead ship will join Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The armament support ship with factory number No. 01552 will be delivered to the Baltic Fleet," she added.

The Project 20360M armament support ship’s hull will be ice-reinforced, i.e. it will have the double bottom and double sides. The ship will be also equipped with a bow steering propeller.

The Project 20360M armament support ship will have two cargo holds, a compartment for cargo in containers, a crane with a load-carrying capacity of 20 tons and a helicopter pad.

The armament support ship is designed to load special cargoes at berths and transport them to vessels at bases and in open roadsteads.

The armament support ship will have a length of 77 meters and a width of 15.8 meters. As the spokeswoman said, the shipyard has not built such big vessels before.

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