SOCHI. Nov 28 (Interfax) - The Russian Navy should adopt up to eight strategic submarines by 2020, President Vladimir Putin has said.
"Last January the Navy already adopted the strategic submarine Yury Dolgoruky. Next year, in the nearest future two more submarines should arrive - Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh. And by 2020 up to eight nuclear-propelled strategic submarines should be adopted by our Navy," he said at a conference on the advancement of the Russian nuclear submarine force.
The president pointed out to such issues as timing and prices and the synchronization of construction and modernization efforts with "work related to armaments."
"The armaments should be supplied simultaneously with the appearance of the carriers, the submarines," Putin said.
Coastal infrastructure problems formed another subject that the president singled out.
"There is no need to say how the naval part of the nuclear deterrence triad is important for us. Our Armed Forces, including the nuclear strategic deterrence force, should be balanced, therefore we intend to and will pay attention to the Navy as a whole and to its strategic part in particular," Putin said.