Russia to Build a Series of Large Landing Ships Under the Updated Project 11711 - Media

Russia will continue to develop the modernized Project 11711 and build a whole series of large landing ships. At least two of these LSTs will be laid down before the end of 2025 at the Yantar shipyard. This is reported by TASS news agency, citing its sources in the defense industry, and noting that the publication does not yet have official confirmation of this.

Project 11711 in its original version includes two ships. These are the "Ivan Gren" and "Petr Morgunov", which have been serving in the Northern Fleet since 2018 and 2020. Each of them can simultaneously transport up to three hundred marines, 30 cargo or special vehicles, 36 armored personnel carriers or 13 tanks. At the same time, personnel and equipment are landed contactlessly thanks to special ship pontoons to the shore, which work even with waves of 4 points. Also, ships of Project 11711 can be used to transport goods up to 1500 tons.

Later, the project was modernized, and theLST "Vladimir Andreev" and "Vasily Trushin" began to be built at the Yantar shipyards according to the corrected project. Officially, the continuation of the modernized project and its final composition were not announced. But in August of this year, the specialized publication "GlavPaluba", referring to Alexey Rakhmanov, head of the USC, wrote that several new ships are still worth waiting for. Moreover, they will be built not only in Kaliningrad, but also at shipyards throughout the country. The USC has not denied this.