From: Adam 

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. Petersburg’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.

“Our country is still capable of building combat ships without outside
assistance and there is no doubt it will be in the future,” Navy Commander
Vladimir Masorin said.

Astrakhan would operate in the Caspian Flotilla, commander added.

Almaz is one of Northwest Russia’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."


Adam

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