The Russian Navy's combat capabilities could seriously decrease by 2015 due to a large-scale decommissioning of ocean-going warships, a former commander of the Northern Fleet has warned."If the current situation [with shipbuilding] remains unchanged, we will face a grand-scale removal of ocean-going warships from service with the Russian Navy by 2015 and, as a result, a sharp decrease in its combat capabilities," Adm. Vyacheslav Popov said in the article "The Navy and Russia's national security" published in the "Russia's Security-2010" almanac on Thursday.
Popov, who is the chairman of the committee on national maritime policies in the upper house of parliament, said the main cause of the looming crisis was lack of financing allocated for construction of new ocean-faring ships.
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