The Central Design Bureau (CKB) “Rubin” developed the submersible patrol ship “Guardian”, TASS reports, referring to the CB.
The Bureau noticed that the first such Russian project combines the advantages of the submarine and the surface patrol ship. KB is confident that the “guard” will interest foreign customers who will be offered as Border and Offshore Submersible Sentry (BOSS).
“The immersible ship can be used as a classic submarine – to conduct intelligence and other tasks. The possibilities of studying the shelf from the diving patrol ship will be higher than that of a similar surface”, “said” Ruby “.
In January, the American magazine Forbes wrote that Russian shipyards were still not recovered from the post-Soviet collapse, as a result of which modern Russia is building not big ships, but much smaller frigates and corvetics, as well as submarines.
Thus, the publication commented on the TASS message that appeared in the same month dedicated to the projects of the Nevsky PCB, in particular the universal seabed (UMC) “Varan”, capable of accommodating 24 multipurpose aircraft, six helicopters and up to 20 unmanned aircraft.
Responding to Forbes’s publication, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Navy (Navy) of Russia, Admiral Igor Casatonov said that the lack of building new aircraft carriers in Russia is due to the fact that this is not necessary, and not so that the country Unable to create such ships.