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Facing India READ INSIDE: NORTHERN HEART «LESSONS WE OF VIKRAMADITYA LEARNED...» Phases of an unprecedented Frigates for India: experience project to overcome difficulties FEATURE ONE: FACING INDIA 1(9) 2012 On March, 1988, state company “Sudoexport”is founded on the basis of the foreign trade arm of the Shipbuilding Industry Ministry of the USSR established in 1968 (Minsudprom). In accordance with Presidential Order No. 696 of June 9, 2010 “On the development of “United Shipbuilding Corporation’’, “Sudoexport” is integrated in United Shipbuilding Corporation. The order specifies that foreign trade operations on exporting and importing ships and other vessels, ship and other equipment, parts and materials, and leasing, are designated as priority areas. “Sudoexport” acts as a middleman for the Russian shipbuilding industry working with foreign clients and works on importing equipment and parts for shipbuilding enterprises, as well as implementing in Russia advanced foreign and domestic technologies for the shipbuilding industry. In its many years of experience, “Sudoexport” has earned a reputation as a reliable partner for many successful shipbuilding and repair factories, as well as for shipping companies from India, Germany, Norway, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Egypt, and other countries. We aim to maintain harmonious relations with our clients, keeping them as transparent and as reliable as possible. 11, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya 123242, Moscow, Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 727 30 52 Fax: +7 (495) 727 30 53 E-mail: info sudoexport.ru @ www.sudoexport.com Dear readers! This issue of the corporate magazine of the United Ship- building Corporation (USC) is mostly focused on the themes of Russian-Indian cooperation in the naval sphere. It is symbolic that it is issued on the eve of an important event — 50th anni- versary of the beginning of the military and technical coopera- tion between India and the USSR — which throughout decades became a major factor of not only the world arms market, but also of the global politics. Fruitful military and technical cooperation of our countries that had time and again played an important role in preventing threats and effective resolution of armed conflicts acquired a new quality in early ХХI century. A high degree of mutual un- derstanding that had formed during years of close partnership, on the working level, too, and mutual trust allow Russia and India to change the previous cooperation in the format buyer- seller, customer-manufacturer in favour of joint development of advanced weapons and military equipment. This particular format of modern privileged partnership gives our countries the synergy able to provide a breakthrough to the leading positions in a number of areas of military and technical cooperation, including joint design and production of effective naval hardware, in order to meet the requirements of the national armed forces, as well as for successful competition on the world market. We at USC are sure that further development of the strategic partnership relations between our nations, including the naval shipbuilding sphere, will make it possible to protect the national sovereignty and implement national interests of India and Rus- sia in the ХХI century in the most efficient and mutually ben- eficially manner. Roman Trotsenko President, United Shipbuilding Corporation CONTENT 14 48 40 34 4_ NEWS 27_ FORECAST: NO CALM 48_ THUNDERBOLTS FOR THE COUNTRY 10_ SHARING THE SAME GOALS 34_ NORTHERN HEART OF GODS OF VIKRAMADITYA 14_INDISSOLUBLE UNION 52_ LOOKING DEEP 37_ SCHOOL 20_ «LESSONS WE LEARNED...» OF THE SEA WOLF 26_ SUDOEXPORT — INDIA: 40_ PARTNERSHIP RELIABLE partnership FOR FRIENDSHIP’S SAKE «USC. STRENGTH Address e-mail: [email protected] AND POWER AT SEA» magazine 11/1 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, website: www.oaoosk.ru №1(9) 2012 Moscow,123242 Russia Published by USC JSС Tel.: +7 (495) 617-33 00 Fax: +7 (495) 617-34 00 President Roman Trotsenko NEWS USC AND MMK SPAIN LOBBYING St. Petersburg, the following documents were signed in the this involved their license construction at one of the domes- BECAME PARTNERS WARSHIP DELIVERY presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: tic shipyards. The details of the signed contract have not yet been dis- MOSCOW, 29 November 2011. JSC United Shipbuilding TO BRAZIL — a contract to build a 25-MW ice-breaker (completion date: closed. Corporation (USC) and JSC Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel 29 November 2011 (CAWAT). Executive director of Spanish October 2015); The delivery of the frigates is the biggest joint project be- Works (MMK) signed a memorandum of strategic shipbuilder Navantia Louis Cacho completed his visit to Bra- — contracts to build three 16-MW ice-breakers (completion tween Russia and Vietnam in the segment of major surface cooperation. zil, during which he held talks with the Ministry of Defense, dates: May, August and October 2015); ships. In 2006, Rosoboronexport signed a US$ 350 million Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navy and defense industry of- — a subcontract to build a 25-MW ice-breaker with the contract with the Vietnamese Navy to supply two Project The parties agreed to cooperate in ficials of the largest South American state to support the pro- completion date set at October 2015; 11661 Gepard-3.9 frigates. The developer of the project is the science and technology on the existing posal in the framework of PROSUPER (Programa de Obtencao — an agreement on preparations for the construction of a Zelenodolsk PKB Design Bureau, while the manufacturing and new types of products in ship- de Meios de Superficie) program. series of 60-MW nuclear-powered ice-breakers; contractor is JSC Zelenodolsk Shipyard. building, as well as optimize the chains — an agreement on the use of Baltic Shipyard’s capacities to The modified version of the Project 11661 Gepard-3.9 has de- to supply steel products from the MMK In addition, the CEO of Navantia met with the Spanish Ambas- build the floating hull parts for two Mistral assault landing rived from the Tatarstan patrol ship. The Vietnamese Gepard site to USC enterprises. sador to Brazil to coordinate the efforts supporting the com- ships. ship incorporates stealth technology. It is armed with the «As you know, the shipbuilding indus- pany’s proposals with the diplomatic mission. Palma-SU missile/gun air defense system with a new elec- try is perhaps the most metal-intensive It should be recalled that in the first phase of the PROSUPER tro-optical guidance system and the Uran missile system. sector. In this regard, the United Ship- program, Brazil seeking to increase the capabilities to protect RUSSIAN-BUILT FRIGATE By now, both the Project 11661 Gepard-3.9 frigates have been building Corporation believes that the its offshore oil fields plans to acquire 11 combatant ships — FOR INDIAN NAVY delivered to the Vietnamese Navy. strategic cooperation between Russian shipbuilders and the five 6000-ton frigates, five 1800-ton offshore patrol vessels and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works will promote healthy com- one replenishment oiler (AOR) to be built by the winner of the COMPLETED TRIALS petition in the domestic ship’s steel market, which is espe- tender in the country in conjunction with Brazilian companies. MOSCOW, 7 December 2011 (RIA Novosti). The first of the cially important in conditions when shipbuilding orders have According to Navantia, its proposal features two major ben- three frigates ordered by the Indian Navy has successfully been steadily growing in Russia,» - said Roman Trotsenko, efits: the availability of proven projects for the three classes passed the final trials before its handover to the Indian side. President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. In turn, of ships (frigate, POV and AOR ship) required for the Brazilian Boris Dubrovsky, Director General of Magnitogorsk Iron & Navy, as well as vast experience in transfer of the construc- «In fact, the final testing phase of the Project 11356 frigate Teg Steel Works, said, «Possessing the most modern plate roll- tion technologies to a number of countries, including Australia, (Saber) has finished. Next, the process of delivery and accept- ing processes at its Mill 5000 facility, MMK intends to devel- India and Norway. ance of the first of three frigates by the Indian side will be- op the delivery market for shipbuilders. Such an opportunity Navantia has already secured the full support of the project gin,»- said Sergei Mikhailov, spokesman for the Yantar Baltic is available now, and we are pleased with the agreements from Spain’s Government, Ministry of Defense, and Navy. The Shipyard. According to him, the frigate is to be handed over to reached with USC. MMK is able to fully meet the needs of obligations of the parties were fixed in the Memorandum of the Indian Navy in April next year. the Russian shipbuilding industry, which will soon become Understanding signed in December 2010 by the Brazilian and The contract to build the second batch of the three frigates the locomotive of the domestic economy.” Spanish Ministries of Defense. was signed on 14 July 2007 in New Delhi. Under the first con- Project 11661 frigates are designed to search, detect tract signed in 1997, frigates Tabar (Hatchet), Trishul (Trident) and destroy surface, underwater and air targets, as well and Talvar (Sword) were constructed and handed over to the as handle escort and patrol missions. INDIA: A NEW STAGE Indian Navy. The displacement of the ships is 2100 tons, speed — 28 IN SHIPBUILDING The frigates under construction at Yantar will almost not dif- knots, sea crossing endurance — 20 days. Their arma- fer in their basic characteristics from those received by India ment suite includes two Uran-E quad ASM launchers, a DEVELOPMENT earlier. Only the armament mix of the ships was modified. In 76mm AK-176M artillery gun, two 30mm AK-630M CIWS NEW DELHI, 30 November 2011 (ARMS-TASS). India is particular, they will be armed with the Brahmos supersonic systems and 533mm torpedo tubes.
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