MOSCOW - Due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and Kiev's recent decision to terminate their long-standing defense industrial cooperation agreement, Moscow has been seeking alternative sources for defense products. Russia now plans to begin producing their own gas turbine engines for the Navy by 2018, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
"We will start the production [of gas turbine engines] by the end of 2017, and in 2018 we are launching mass production,"Rogozin said.
Previously, Russia relied on imported gas turbine engines from Ukraine's state-owned Zorya-Mashproekt plant in Nikolayev. However, last April, Kiev imposed an embargo on Russia preventing the sale or delivery of military equipment to the country. Moscow responded by approving a plan in July 2014 to begin substituting Ukrainian-made military products with those made elsewhere. A total of 186 items were on the substitution list, Rogozin confirmed.
The construction of Russia's Krivak IV class (Project 11356M) frigates have been especially affected by the recent changes.
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