Two motorboats ordered by Russian Navy to be launched on Oct 15 - Defense Ministry
MOSCOW. Oct 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Two rescue motorboats of Project 23040 ordered by the Russian Navy will be launched on October 15 at the Nizhegorodsky Teplokhod shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod, the Defense Ministry said.
"The shipyard already floated out two motorboats of Project 23040 in September 2013. After dock and sea trials and the state tests the motorboats will join the Russian Black Sea Fleet and be deployed in Novorossiysk," a spokesman for the Russian Navy told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
A state contract on building 16 rescue motorboats of Project 23040 for the Russian Defense Ministry was signed with Nizhegorodsky Teplokhod in late March 2013. The keels of the first four vessels were laid on June 27, 2013.
The shipyard committed to completing the motorboats within three years. The first four motorboats will be stationed in Novorossiysk and attached to the Black Sea Fleet. Three will go to the Caspian Flotilla and nine to the Baltic Fleet (three will be stationed in Kronshtadt and six in Baltiysk).
