Wednesday, March 4, 2009

First Russian-built trimaran

Russian naval architecture bureau Zelendolsk has unveiled a new trimaran design, also to be the first trimaran in Russia.

Project 21632, or ‘Tornado’ will be a 600-tonne displacement ship, and is a further development of project 21630, ‘Buyan’, which has now been commissioned with the Russian Navy’s Caspian Flotilla. ‘Buyan’ is one of the new ships to be designed and commissioned after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like ‘Buyan’, the ‘Tornado’ will have missile complexes with Uran-E or Yanhont missiles.
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