Sevmash to start construction of 8th Project Borei strategic missile carrying sub in 2016 - general director
MOSCOW. Dec 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The Sevmash shipbuilding company, based in Severodvinsk, is due to start the construction of the eighth strategic nuclear submarine of Project Borei in 2016, the enterprise's general director Mikhail Budnichenko told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
"The construction of the eighth Project Borei nuclear submarine is expected to begin in December 2016," he said.
"This submarine will be transferred to the Navy in accordance with the schedule confirmed by the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation," Budnichenko said.
The eighth Borei submarine will be built as part of the modernized Borei-A project.
Strategic submarines of Projects Borei and Borei-A are equipped with Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Sevmash, which is a member of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation, has already handed over three Project Borei submarines to the Russian Navy. The submarine Yury Dolgoruky serves within the Northern Fleet. The Alexander Nevsky has recently arrived at its Pacific Fleet base in Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka. And the third Project Borei submarine - the Vladimir Monomakh - has also joined the Pacific Fleet, but currently remains in northern Russia.
Sevmash is presently building another three missile carrying submarines of the modernized Borei-A project. They are the Knyaz Vladimir, the Knyaz Oleg and the Generalissimo Suvorov.
