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Monday, September 10, 2007

Russian Navy on the Fast Track

The Russian Navy is expanding its hardware and capabilities to levels reminiscent of the Cold War. Thanks to a surplus of cash afforded by high energy commodity prices, Moscow is fast-tracking its fleet and feeding its navy so many rubles that it could reach its ambitious goal of becoming the world’s number-two naval power within a generation.

“We are already building practically as many ships as we did in Soviet times,” Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said. “The problem now is not lack of money, but how to optimize production ….”

On the fleet’s wish list are six aircraft carriers, 40 frigates, a new large-tonnage shipbuilding dock near Severodvinsk, numerous upgrades for its more outdated branches, and a series of Yasen-class multipurpose nuclear attack submarines.

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1 comment:

  1. M. Simon11/9/07 16:00

    “The problem now is not lack of money, but how to optimize production ….”

    In other words they have the same quality issues they have always had.

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