From: "George Sherwood" 

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:54:47 +0100, Adam wrote:

> http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/01/stealthwarship.shtml
>
> "A modern stealth gunboat was supplied to the Russian Navy in St.
> Petersburg Friday, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
>
> Built at St. Petersburgƒ’s Almaz shipyard, the Astrakhan will be the
> first in the navy warship to have stealth capabilities and can be armed
> with various artillery systems previously used only on destroyers.
>
> ƒ“Our country is still capable of building combat ships without outside
> assistance and there is no doubt it will be in the future,ƒ” Navy
> Commander Vladimir Masorin said.
>
> Astrakhan would operate in the Caspian Flotilla, commander added.
>
> Almaz is one of Northwest Russiaƒ’s leading shipyards. It was established
> in 1901 and has built more than 1,000 missile and patrol boats for the
> Russian Navy and Coast Guard and foreign clients since then. Sales in
> 2005 were more than 1.7 bln rubles ($61.46 million)."
>
>
>
> NB:
>
> "Astrakhan would operate in the Caspian Flotilla, commander added."

Interesting to see how it looks.  I am still not as impressed with Russian
kit as you.  I see many claims and few facts.  Probably one of the best
Navy's tied up to the piers that exists.  But hard to control the
seas from there.

George

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