The Russian Federation Navy (RFN) is to place the Northern Fleet's Project 1155 Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Kharlamov into reserve in the face of delayed funding for a planned overhaul and upgrade programme.
As a result, the RFN has decided that it is no longer safe to operate the ship - one of the latest destroyers, commissioned in 1989 - in active service and mothballed it, although the navy is adamant it has not been retired.
The apparent failure to fund the overhaul and upgrade the Admiral Kharlamov may be of concern to navy chiefs who have long argued for increased funding for the surface fleet.
According to the navy, the deadline for immediate repairs and replacement of Admiral Kharlamov's main engines has passed and repairs - along with much needed modernisation - will not now take place until 2007-08.
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