MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The second submarine Ho Chi Minh - out of the six export diesel electric submarines of the project 636 ordered by Vietnam to Russia's Admiralty Shipyards, which is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - will be delivered to Vietnamese navy in February and the third one will be supplied in late 2014, United Shipbuilding Company (OSK) Vice President for state defense order and military and technical cooperation, Igor Ponomaryov, said.
"The next Vietnamese submarine will be delivered in February 2014 and another one in late 2014. We should supply Vietnam with two submarines this year," Ponomaryov said.
An agreement to supply six submarines has been concluded with Vietnam and the first submarine Hanoi was delivered in November 2013, Ponomaryov said.
As to military and technical cooperation with Algeria, Rosoboronexport is holding talks on the construction of two more diesel electric submarines of the project 636 and price parameters are being accorded, Ponomaryov said.
"Transfer and acceptance tests of the second order have been completed successfully" recently at the Admiralty Shipyards, a Russian shipbuilding sector source has told Interfax-AVN. The third export submarine was launched on August 28, the source said.
The agreement to supply Vietnam with six submarines was signed in 2009 during the visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to Moscow. The contract also stipulates the training of Vietnamese crews and the supply of the required equipment and technical means.
A training center has been established in Cam Ranh with the assistance of St. Petersburg's Aurora Concern in order to train the Vietnamese submarine crews.
Diesel electric submarines of the project 636 are the third generation of a submarine with good potential for modernization allowing for the integration of new weapons on them, in particular the Club anti-ship rocket complex, which expands the area of target damage.