The Yantar Shipyard in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has been selected to build the first three frigates for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, shipyard spokesman Sergei Mikhailov has said.
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“The construction of the frigates for the Russian Navy will be carried out in parallel with the construction of same-type frigates for the Indian Navy,” he said.
The new frigates will be equipped with eight BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, a 100mm gun, a Shtil surface-to-air missile system, two Kashtan air-defence gun / missile systems, two twin 533mm torpedo launchers, and an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.
Yantar is also currently building three frigates for the Indian Navy under a $1.6bn contract signed in 2007, according to RIA Novosti.
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