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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project

Project 22220 nuclear icebreakerSt. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” universal-use nuclear icebreakers in a $2.3 billion windfall for the Unified Shipbuilding Corporation owned conglomerate.

As evidenced by the trumpet call of official Russian media, the finalization who will build the ships is one more important flagstone in Russia’s path to dominance in the Arctic, and was cast in terms of a victorious battle against foreign influence and Russia’s indomitable declaration that it will not be marginalized in waters it considers its birthright.

The project to build the new generation icebreakers has been dubbed “Project 22220.”

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