Source: Navy Recognition
A project plan of a new Leader-class destroyer will be ready by 2022. A keel-laying ceremony will take place after that, Viktor Bursuk, the Russian Navy deputy commander-in-chief, said.
“As for the Leader destroyer, we are going to launch a project plan in 2019-2020. It will be finished approximately in 2022. The ship will be lain down after that,” Bursuk said.
He noted that funds had been allocated for the ship’s construction. “A shipbuilding program provides for this ship’s construction. So all the budgets will be implemented,” the deputy commander-in-chief said.
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