Novorossiysk | submarines with cruise missiles – Russian Newspaper

Novorossiysk | submarines with cruise missiles – Russian Newspaper

On the Novorossiysk naval base Russian Black Sea Fleet will be deployed submarines equipped with missiles with a range over 1.5 thousand kilometers. Today reported by President Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to Novorossiysk, Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Alexander Vitko.

He said the head of state on the construction of Novorossiysk point of Black Sea Fleet.

– With the return of the Crimea to the Russian Federation the relevance of this point home is not diminished by the fact that NATO ships are constantly present in the Black Sea, and is planned to establish a naval base in the Black Sea – said Witco. – Submarines, which will be based here, have a long-range cruise missiles – more than a thousand kilometers – and secrecy of their exit points based in Novorossiysk on the order of magnitude higher than in Sevastopol. Pirsovaya area accommodates eight submarines of underwater vessels are scheduled to have seven submarines.

According to the admiral, at the Black Sea fleet today is 173 ship. 2020 is planned to flow into service more than 80 ships. The President asked, when will be completed for the construction of the naval base for military vessels in Novorossiysk. “At the end of 2016 all will be fully completed,” – said Vitko.

As previously reported, Vladimir Putin today holds Novorossiysk meeting on the development of the ports of the Azov-Black Sea region, as well as a video listen to the report of the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu on the teachings of “Vostok-2014″.