MOSCOW, June 27 (AVN) - The Navy permanent committee on vessels commissioning will examine the Mirage class high-speed patrol boat in mid-July, a spokesman for the naval guard department of the Federal Border Guard Service (FBGS) said on Wednesday.
Earlier the committee was supposed to leave for the Crimea on June 18 to 20 to commission the ship that is to be included in the North Caucasus regional border guard department, the Military News Agency reported earlier quartering sources in the Vympel shipyard. The postponment is caused by several technical shortcomings found during the ship's tests, the spokesman told the Agency.
The Mirage is the first ship of Project 14310 developed by the St.Petersburg-based Almaz central naval design bureau. The boat was produced by the Vympel JS located in the town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. Currently the boat is in the Crimean port of Feodosiya where the Vympel shipyard's commissioning base is located. The border guard crew arrived there yet in April.
The new date of the commissioning is set on July 28, the spokesman went on. The boat's flag will be risen on July 29 which is Russian Navy Day. After the ceremony the Mirage will head for the Caspian Sea through the Don and Volga Rivers.