United Shipbuilding Corporation (OAK) has created a design bureau as part of a project to develop new serial low-speed engines. This was reported by the OAK press service.
According to the corporation’s plan, the new bureau will in a short time make it possible to begin developing a low-speed engine and prepare the industrial base for moving to serial production.
As part of the implementation of the first stage of the project, OAK engaged the Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant (KMZ), together with which it has already completed a package of pre-project preparation work, noted the corporation’s Deputy Director General Sergey Bondarenko.
The successful completion of the first stage of the project to create a domestic low-speed engine allows OAK to complete cooperation with KMZ in this area. In this regard, the corporation is exiting KMZ’s capital and returning it to its previous owners.
OAK added that the next stage of work on creating low-speed engines will be the development of the technical design, a set of working design documentation for the main parts and assemblies, as well as the selection of the manufacturing enterprise. The new technological partner will be the Kronstadt Engineering Center
The manufacture of the first low-speed engine for the domestic fleet, testing, and certification is planned for 2027-2028.
Earlier it became known that KMZ left OAK. The parties expect to continue cooperation as partners.
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