SEVEROMORSK, November 5 (AVN) - The St. Petersburg's Severnaya Verf ship-building plant finishes to repair the Severomorsk large antisubmarine ship (project 1155).
In the middle of 1998 they started to change four gas-turbine plants.
Rear admiral Anatoly Smolyakov, chief of the Northern Fleet technical department told the Military News Agency that China had paid for the destroyer of 956 project it imported and due to this money ship-builders managed to repair Russian antisubmarine ship in short terms.
In 2000 Severnaya Verf will start to repair two more project 1155 large antisubmarine ships, namely the Admiral Levchenko that serves since 1988 and the Admiral Kharlamov, that serves since 1989.
Repairing base that is now being organised in Kronshtadt (the Turborus enterprise) may be used to repair main engines of these ships.
Project 1155 large antisubmarine ships defend ship detachments and search nuclear submarines. The Yantar ship-building plant (Kailiningrad) started to produce them back in 1976.
The Severomorsk large antisubmarine ship (previously the Simferopol) was set afloat in December 1985; in May 1988 she entered the Northern Fleet. Its full load displacement is 7570 tun, full speed is about 30 knots with 5700 mile range and economic speed of 18 knots. The ship is armed with the Rastrub multipurpose antisubmarine complex (eight antisubmarine missiles) the Klinok air-defence missile complex ( eight launchers) and two К-27 helicopters.