Russian shipbuilding no longer depends on Ukraine, but serious problems remain
Russian military shipbuilding was able to eliminate almost 100% dependence on imported components. However, in the civilian sector the situation is not so optimistic.
The general director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexey Rakhmanov, stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we are talking about warships, then the share of domestic components is close to one hundred percent. If anything remains, it is somewhere from the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union.
If we take civilian orders, then, of course, the situation there is very different. The same theme with “fishermen” (fishing vessels - author) suggests that the share of imported components is prevalent, that is, significantly more than 70 percent.
This, of course, cannot but worry us, since we would really like for Russia’s economic and technological independence to be ensured in the civil fleet segment too,” Rakhmanov said.
Let us recall that after the events of 2014, Ukraine imposed an embargo on the supply of gas turbines for warships in Russia. Since Soviet times, turbines have been produced only at Ukrainian enterprises.
By the time Ukraine imposed sanctions, construction of a series of frigates to renew the fleet had begun at shipyards in Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. Before the embargo, Russia only managed to receive five installations, which delayed the introduction of new ships into the Navy for a long time.
However, Russia was subsequently able to establish its own production of turbines. Thus, Ukraine lost income from the sale of installations, as well as their subsequent maintenance.
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