ST. PETERSBURG. July 1 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia remains a leader amongst global exporters of naval hardware, with the book of orders exceeding $5 billion, head of the Rosoboronexport delegation to International Maritime Defense Show (IMDS) 2015, Deputy General Director Igor Sevastyanov has said.
"Currently, Rosoboronexport's book of orders for Russian naval hardware comprises of contracts with foreign partners to a total sum exceeding $5 billion," a report of the company press service seen by Interfax-AVN has quoted Sevastyanov as saying.
In his words, the share of naval products in gross Rosoboronexport exports stood at approximately 15% in recent years, which generally complied with global trends on the arms market.
The company deputy head underlined that present-day capacities of the Russian defense sector enabled Rosoboronexport to comprehensively implement even the most technologically complicated and daring projects in any place of the globe.
"Besides, Russia not only supplies naval end-products but also shares specific military technologies with partners for starting joint production of ships and naval systems," Sevastyanov added.
The company press service reported that Rosoboronexport was planned to give a detailed account of advantages of Russia's all-inclusive approach to the development and equipment of modern naval forces at IMDS 2015, in particular, to hold about 40 meetings with members of delegations from countries of the Asia Pacific region, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and even the European Union. The Russian company will present to guests and exhibitors over 200 types of naval products promoted in the current period.
The company press service said that Rosoboronexport linked good prospects of the promotion of Russian naval hardware on global markets to the high level of competitiveness of a large number of products, for example, submarines of Project 636 and Amur 1650, frigates of Project 11356 and Gepard-3.9, Molniya-class missile ships, Svetlyak and Mirazh-class patrol boats, coastal defense missile systems Bal-E and Bastion, artillery system A-190 and others.
The press service reported that in the 15 years of Rosoboronexport's existence, the department on exports of special-purpose naval property and services to foreign partners has delivered Russian naval hardware and rendered hardware maintenance services to a sum exceeding $21 billion. A significant part of the deliveries falls on warships. In all, more than 40 pieces of hardware have been supplied, a third of them submarines and the rest are surface ships and hovercraft.
Rosoboronexport deems as the most significant naval contracts executed by Rosoboronexport in the period since 2000 the delivery of destroyers of Projects 956E and 956EM and submarines of Project 636 to China, the delivery of the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya of Project 11430 and patrol ships of Project 11356 to India, the delivery of amphibious hovercraft of Project 12322 Zurb to Greece and a patrol boat of Project 10412 Svetlyak to Slovenia (contracts with NATO member countries), and the delivery of Russian landing hovercraft of Project 12061E Murena-E to South Korea.
Rosoboronexport is Russia's only state-owned company exporting the entire range of military and dual-use products, services and technologies. It is a unit of state corporation Rostec. The company accounts for over 85% of exports of Russian armaments and military hardware. Rosoboronexport interacts with more than 700 enterprises and organizations of the Russian defense sector. Russia maintains military-technological cooperation with over 70 countries.