The repair dates of the Admiral Chabanenko BOD have been shifted again

The Admiral Chabanenko large anti-submarine ship (BOD) will not complete repairs this year as planned, several sources familiar with the situation told Izvestia. The deadlines for the completion of work and the launch of the BOD for testing are unknown, the interlocutors said.

They will be put against the wall: the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will be mothballed

In the future, the ship will either be sold or disposed of.

Izvestia sent a request to the United Shipbuilding Corporation twice, but there was no response at the time of publication.

The ship was built in the second half of the 90s, and the project began to be developed back in the 80s, and many technologies were lost, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

"It is possible that the fate of Kuznetsov may await Chabanenko. It all depends on how the navy decides. Conservation is definitely a write—off after a few years. Then no one will deal with it anymore. On the other hand, there is an example of the Vice Admiral Kulakov BOD, which has been under repair for two decades. As a result, it was repaired, and it sails the seas. If we modernize Admiral Chabanenko, it will be a good ship. Anyway, no large ships are expected for the Northern Fleet in the coming years. Therefore, it is better to finish its repair," the expert explained.

According to Ilya Kramnik, an employee of the IMEMO RAS Center for Strategic Planning Studies, there is a possibility that Chabanenko may be mothballed.

"Of course, there is such a possibility, because the 35th plant is such a place, a graveyard of ships, work deadlines are regularly disrupted there, and there are examples of criminal cases. I would not be particularly optimistic in this case, but let's hope that the bad premonitions will not be justified," the expert concluded.

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