The keel-laying ceremony for the large landing ship (LLS) of the modernized Project 11711 "Sergey Kabanov" took place at the "Yantar" shipyard in Kaliningrad.
The "Sergey Kabanov" LLS is being built by Kaliningrad shipbuilders under contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. The ship will join the Northern Fleet.
This will be the fifth LLS of Project 11711 being built at the "Yantar" shipyard. Currently, the "Ivan Gren" and "Petr Morgunov" are part of the Russian Navy. The "Vasily Trushin" and "Vladimir Andreev" are being built in parallel.
This trio of LLSs is being created by shipbuilders according to the revised project of PAO "Nevskoe Design Bureau".
The company expects that the series will continue up to 10 ships.
The LLS of Project 11711 is designed to transport about 15 tanks or about 35 APCs/IFVs, or up to a battalion of marines. The ship is armed with AK-630 and AK-630M-2 artillery mounts. A Ka-27 search and rescue helicopter or a Ka-29 combat helicopter can be accommodated on the deck.
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