Frigates of the Navy instead of the Ukrainian engines will have improved Russian
Russian frigates of project 11356 and 22350, which are expected to equip Ukrainian gas turbine engines (GTE), will receive the Russian power plant, surpassing Ukrainian counterparts, told Last news on the first day of the week, the press service of the United shipbuilding Corporation.
"The first 3 frigates of project 11356 and the First two ships of project 22350 is already equipped with GTE Ukrainian production. Subsequent frigates of both projects will be equipped with power units of Russian production with characteristics superior to Ukrainian analogues ", - told the press service.
Work under the direction deployed Rybinsk NPO " Saturn ", which in cooperation with several Russian industrial enterprises already started the revision of existing Russian projects GTE. The production of the first Russian engines of this type is planned for late 2017 - early 2018, spoke at USC.
It is also stated that there are "real solutions" on imports of gears for propulsion systems with GTE at the facilities of the St. Petersburg company " Zvezda ".