Project 677: Lada class submarine

"Saturn" completed the first stage of development work on the creation of three marine gas turbine engines M-90FR, DKVP unit and M-70FRU reverse, which must be equipped with a completely new Russian warships.

"We expect that by the end of December this year," Saturn "will report to us on the implementation and the second phase of this work, - said the director of the Department of Shipbuilding Industry of Maxim Kochetkov. - By the beginning of 2017 all gas turbine engines have to be designed and manufactured the first prototypes, which are sent to the test. A 2018 scheduled delivery of these units on the ships for our navy. " This project has the highest priority in the program of import substitution in the domestic defense industry, and his success literally depends on the readiness of at least a half dozen under construction and projected frigates, corvettes, cruisers and amphibious ships.

Militarov wrote:"The Rubin Design Bureau and Krylov State Research Center will start developing a prototype submarine air-independent propulsion (AIP) plant and an associated floating test bench, Igor Landgraf, deputy director/chief designer of Krylov’s affiliate TsNII SET said. According to Landgraf, the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry is considering Rubin and Krylov’s proposal for the Development of an AIP Plant Prototype and an Associated Floating Test Bench development work. The proposal had resulted from a resolution by the September 12, 2015 governmental meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The proposal was approved by the Russian Navy’s leading research institute. The work is designed for four years from 2016. Given the scale and urgency of the task assigned, the financing requested under the program totals several billion rubles.

"We are waiting for the proposal to be approved and the financing hashed out," the deputy director said, "and the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry was tasked with getting the money to pay for the program. Therefore, I think it will take place." Rubin, which completed the research into the land-based AIP plant prototype in December 2014, will be prime contractor, while Krylov’s TsNII SET affiliate is to develop, manufacture and supply an electrochemical generator with a capacity of several hundred kilowatt for the in-development AIP plant prototype, with the generator to "consist of polyethylene fuel cell-based stacks with a unit power of 50kW."



The prototype of the afore-said BTE-50K fuel cell-based stack was designed, made, tested and submitted to the customer, the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry, under the Krylov-performed AIP Plant with Oxidation Product Disposal development work in 2011-2015. The acceptance trials of the BTE-50K - the most effective Russian-made fuel cell-based stack - were completed with success in March 2015, and the customer accepted the example. To display Krylov’s progress in hydrogen power generation and fuel cells, a BTE-50K analog designed for commercial applications was exhibited at several shows and got good press," Landgraf said. "Now, Rubin and we have a clear-eyed understanding of the way to follow to develop a highly effective AIP plant as soon as possible," the chief designer stressed. "We also realize that advanced diesel-electric submarines are plain inconceivable unless equipped with AIP plants. AIP plants are needed both by the Russian Navy and the navies of many countries, with which we maintain partnership relations and that are our potential customers."

According to Landgraf’s estimates, if the financing starts in 2016, the AIP plant’s test on the floating test bench will start in 2018 at the earliest. Krylov’s Executive Director Mikhail Zagorodnikov, in turn, said the lack of AIP plants onboard Russian diesel-electric submarines might deny them demand on the global naval arms market. "China and the Republic of Korea build diesel-electric AIP submarines. India is beginning to make [such] boats of its own in cooperation with the French. We will miss the market, unless we develop an AIP plant," Zagorodnikov stressed."

Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3343

SEVERODVINSK, 18 Jul — RIA Novosti. Sea tests AiP (anaerobic) power plant will start in 2016 in the Baltic sea, said Friday the General Director of CDB "Rubin" Igor Vilinet.
"We have completed a full cycle of ground tests, and preparations are under way for sea trials that are a mandatory step, they will begin in 2016 in the Baltic sea," said Vilinet.
According to him, anaerobic power plant is modular and can be installed including submarines, currently under construction.


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At the present time in the interests of the Russian Navy at Admiralty shipyards built two diesel submarines of project "Lada" — "Kronstadt" and "Great Luke".
"The terms of construction are on schedule and the delivery of these submarines will happen in a timely manner," said Vilinet journalists.
He added that the third submarine of the Lada project is now at the Contracting stage.
In November, Navy commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said that the diesel submarines of project 677 "Lada" will have significantly improved characteristics.


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"Similarly, for non-nuclear fleet is now under-construction project "Lada", and the next a certain number of ships with improved properties will be based on, for example, the project "Lada", — said Vilinet.

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