22350 class frigate
Posted on 06/09/2015 6:30:00 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – New Russian Navy destroyers, originally intended to be equipped with Ukrainian gas turbine engines (GTE), will receive Russian-made engines exceeding the Ukrainian analogues, a United Shipbuilding Corporation spokesman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
"The first three patrol ships of the project 11356 and the first two ships of the project 22350 are already equipped with GTEs manufactured in Ukraine. Subsequent ships of both projects will be equipped with Russian-made power units with characteristics superior to Ukrainian GTEs," the spokesman said.
He added that the modernization of existing Russian GTEs has begun and will be finished in late 2017 — early 2018.
Russian and Ukrainian defense sectors were deeply integrated following the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council suspended military cooperation with Moscow after Crimea's reunification with Russia in March 2014.
Russia launched an import substitution program to replace foreign components used in the defense industry. The military equipment and arms import substitution plan was finalized December 2014 and will eliminate Russia's dependency on foreign-made defense products.
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22350 class frigate
Guess that’ll show those Ukrainians.
Or something.
I hope those engines work better than those put in their new tanks.
If the Russian engines are better, why did they go with the Ukraine equipment in the first place?
They needed more time to clone them?
If cloning was their intent, they better go to their slanty-eyed friends to the south. The Chinese are past masters of copy, the Ruskis like to add tons of mass while working in bearing/balance vibrations and max-out corrosion.
The only thing the Russians seem to excel at are liking dictatorial rulers and killing civilians.
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