Posted on 09/11/2009 7:39:05 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Russia to call tender for foreign helicopter carrier
11/09/2009
KALININGRAD, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia plans to hold an international tender for the purchase of a helicopter carrier, involving France, Spain and the Netherlands, the country's Navy chief said on Friday.
"I can confirm that negotiations are being held, but there is likely to be a tender," Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said, adding that other countries could also be involved.
He said there were no negotiations with the United States - "for understandable reasons," adding that the U.S. authorities were "highly sensitive" about the transfer of new technology, especially dual-purpose technology.
The admiral stressed, however, that technology transfer was a key condition for buying a helicopter carrier abroad.
He said the Russian Navy needed a new warship to enhance its combat effectiveness.
"Take, for example, last August, Georgia. Everything that we did in the space of 26 hours at the time, this ship will do within 40 minutes," Vysotsky said.
He said the new warship would require appropriate port infrastructure, which had yet to be built.
The Navy chief also denied reports that Russia had plans to buy submarines in Germany.
"There is no question of buying [German] submarines. Actually, the Germans do not make diesel-electric submarines," he said.
However, he added that Russia might be interested in acquiring advanced submarine engine technology, but it was not necessarily German.
This story makes no sense. The Krauts make excellent subs, and the CVV guidelines are out there for anyone who wants them, and i’d bet dollars to doughnuts that the Russians could design and build a CVH that would put the Principe de Asturias to shame with on eye closed.
Whatever happened to the Moskva class helicopter carriers?
Sees like they could build a bigger, better one of those for their VTOL carrier.
It goes with the Sov, er, Russki philosophy - part cruiser, part carrier.
As with Clinton and China?
God help us.
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Interesting.
And you’re right. The Germans make such good subs that I think we should be buying some from them.
As for why they aren’t buying the ship from a Russian yard, well, iven the state of the Gorshkov and the hassles the Indians are going through with getting it fixed, that part is more understandable.
The Moskva class was not a good design. Top heavy, not good in higher sea states. I suspect the call to other shipyards may highlight another problem - many shipyard workers in the Soviet Union had vodka as a significant part of their diet, and that may still be the case. The engineering is sound, the fabrication in the USSR stabk (sort of “the State pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work”).
There is always the Kiev class... Russians seem to like “Aviation Cruisers” for some reason. I think it just gets in the way of the ship’s main purpose. And mixing missiles and AVGAS seems a bit risky, too.
Its kind of a pity when a nation like the USSR, er, Russia has to go abroad for development and fabrication.
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