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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Russia cuts two frigate programmes

Yaroslav Mudry (Project 11540 - Yastreb)The Russian Federation Navy (RFN) has abandoned plans to acquire two still-incomplete frigates that have languished in a Kaliningrad shipyard since the 1990s, Jane's has learned.

The Neustrashimy-class (Project 1154) frigate Tuman and the Grom-class (Project 1244.1) frigate Borodino will instead be offered for sale overseas.

However, prospects for the equally long-awaited Gepard-class (Project 11661) frigate Dagestan , which was laid down at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard in Tatarstan in 1994, are more promising. The RFN is expected to commission the vessel in 2010 or 2011.

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