ST. PETERSBURG. July 3 (Interfax) - The Russian Black Sea Fleet will get three more Project 11356 frigates currently being built at Yantar shipyard on Russia's Baltic coast, the Russian Navy's deputy commander, Viktor Bursuk, said.
"The second trio will be completed definitely and also join the Black Sea Fleet," Bursuk said at the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg on Saturday.
Thereafter, this project's ships will be built for foreign customers, he said.
Under two contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, Yantar shipyard was to build six Project 11356 frigates for the Black Sea Fleet. Three were built and handed over to the Fleet, two hulls are still under construction. Because there were no propulsion units for them, at one point there was a discussion whether the submarines could be completed for the Indian Navy.
The Project 11356 frigates are armed with the Kalibr-NK surface ship-launched missile complex with a high-precision cruise missile, 3M-54TE, a multi-channel surface-to-air missile complex Shtil-1, and a combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery weapon complex Palash. The ships are fitted with a combat information-control system, Trebovaniye-M, which was designed and delivered by Research and Production Firm (RPF) Meridian, part of Concern Morinformsystem-Agat.