Launches Six New Warships Of The Russian Navy, President Putin: His Weapons Are Tested In Syria

Illustration of a Russian submarine. (Wikimedia Commons/Russia RIA Novosti archive image #895550/Mikhail Fomichev)

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the launch of six warships for the Navy at three separate shipyards, Monday local time.

Citing TASS on August 23, President Putin launched six warships at once at the shipyard located in Severodvinsk, St. Petersburg, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The launch took place from Patriot Park, in Kubinka outside Moscow, where President Putin attended the opening of the Army International Military-Technical Forum.

Two strategic nuclear-powered underwater cruisers were launched at the Sevmash Shipyard in northwestern Russia, two corvettes at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant in the Russian Far East, and two Varshavyanka-class conventional submarines at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg (everything is integrated into the Russian Shipbuilding Company).

Laying plaques have been installed on the nuclear-powered underwater cruisers Dmitry Donskoi and Knyaz Potyomkin at the Sevmash Shipyard, the submarines Mozhaisk and Yakutsk (the fifth and sixth in a series of six Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarines for Russia) for the Fleet. Pacific at the Admiralty Shipyard and the corvettes Grozny and Buiniy at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant.

President Putin said he would continue to develop the potential of the national navy, equipping the Russian fleet with cutting-edge weapons and technology, while laying down the names of warships and submarines virtually.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Wikimedia Commons/Пресс-служба езидента оссийской едерации)

"We will continue to increase the potential of the Russian navy, improve the base system and naval infrastructure, install the most advanced weapons and equipment on ships, train for difficult tasks in exercises and in long-distance shipping, and display the Russian flag in areas of strategic importance. in the world's oceans," he said.

Such an ambitious and important task, continued President Vladimir Putin, is determined by Russia's geopolitical situation and its role in global affairs.

President Putin said Russia was preserving the "great tradition of the national fleet" and strengthening the continuity of the country's inseparable history for a thousand years.

"That is why the two new nuclear-powered underwater cruisers will bear the names Dmitry Donskoi and Knyaz Potyomkin as a sign of deep respect for the memory and achievements of our illustrious ancestors," said President Putin.

While two large diesel-electric submarines have been named in honor of the Russian cities of Mozhaisk and Yakutsk, two other ships have been given the traditional names for the Russian Fleet: Grozny and Buiniy.

"Advanced precision weapons and the latest control and communication equipment will be installed on all new warships. The efficiency of most of these weapons has been proven in combat operations in Syria," he concluded.