This Week in Contracts: November 3-9, 2014

Admiralty Shipyards/Admiralteyskiye Verfi (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401665541
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Delivery of 26-ton lift-capacity crane for Project 21180 icebreaker (Factory #02470)
• Time frame: May 2016
• Contract value: RUB 110,275,940

Almaz Central Naval Design Bureau (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401664453
• Contractor: OkeanPribor Concern
• Description: Corrections to design documentation of Minotavr-ISPN-M sonar system with MGK-335EM-03 hull-mounted sonar for Steregushchiy III frigate
• Time frame: upon contract signing - July 2015
• Contract value: RUB 32,121,354

• Number: 31401664535
• Contractor: Gorizont (Rostov-na-Donu)
• Description: Corrections to design documentation of MR-231-3 radar system for Steregushchiy III frigate
• Time frame: upon contract signing - March 2015
• Contract value: RUB 700,000

• Number: 31401664550
• Contractor: Karat Scientific Production Association (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Corrections to design documentation of Sfera-05 electro-optical device for Steregushchiy III frigate
• Time frame: November 15, 2015
• Contract value: RUB 22,014,374

Amur Shipyard/Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod (Komsomolsk-na-Amure)

• Number: 31401660996
• Contractor: Varyag (Vladivostok)
• Description: Delivery of 76P4A8 module for Akula I SSN "INS Chakra"
• Time frame: October 2014
• Contract value: RUB 777,091

Middle Neva Shipyard/Sredne-Nevskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401671188
• Contractor: SberBank of Russia - Northwest Bank (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Bank credit line for construction of Obukhov-class minesweepers at Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard
• Time frame: Now through December 31, 2018
• Contract value: RUB 2,180,062,700

Nerpa Shipyard/Sudoremontnyy Zavod Nerpa (Snezhnogorsk)

• Number: 31401662122
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Towing of "PD-42" floating dry dock from Nerpa Shipyard to Sayda Guba long-term nuclear waste storage facility. "PD-42" will be used to ferry sealed reactor compartments from the following scrapped submarines: Echo II SSN K-131, Oscar II SSGN K-148 (ex "Orenburg"), Victor I SSN K-53, Victor III SSN K-254, Yankee I SSBN K-385, Yankee Notch SSN K-253, Yankee Sidecar SSGN K-420
• Time frame: November 5-11, 2014
• Contract value: RUB 13,507,063

• Number: 31401662153
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Towing of Amguema transport vessel "Yauza" from Zvezdochka Shipyard to Nerpa Shipyard
• Time frame: November 6-30, 2014
• Contract value: not specified

• Number: 31401662931
• Contractor: RIO Draft Design Bureau (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Set-up of K-676-2 antennas on Amguema transport vessel "Yauza"
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 259,412

• Number: 31401663235
• Contractor: LGM (Moscow)
• Description: Delivery of ETsN-25VA II electric pump for Victor III SSN "Tambov"
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 1,496,004

• Number: 31401663449
• Contractor: LGM (Moscow)
• Description: Delivery of NTsKG-4/25R pump for Akula II SSN "Vepr"
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 575,014

Northern Shipyard/Severnaya Verf (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401671586
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Assembly-welding work (10,000 man-hours) on Gorshkov FFG "Admiral Flota Kasatonov"/"Admiral Golovko"/"Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Isakov", Ivanov AGI "Ivan Khurs", Project 23120 ATA "Elbrus"/"MB-75", and Steregushchiy II FFG "Gremyashchiy"/"Provornyy"
• Time frame: December 2014 - December 2015
• Contract value: RUB 4,000,000

Yantar Baltic Shipyard/Pribaltiyskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Yantar (Kaliningrad)

• Number: 31401648904
• Contractor: MorSpetsFlot (Moscow)
• Description: Time charter of "Heather Sea" for use in deep-dive (1,000m) testing of Deep Worker and Dual Deep Worker submersibles in the Black Sea
• Time frame: November 2014
• Contract value: RUB 1,232,500 (per day of operation) + RUB 1,062,500 (per day of transit to/from operations area)

Zvezda Far East Shipyard/Dalnyevostochnyy Zavod Zvezda (Bolshoy Kamen)

• Number: 31300713556
• Contractor: LenTeploPribor (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Delivery of ITsK-BS-01 device for Akula I SSN "Magadan"
• Time frame: November 25, 2013 (original); new date not specified
• Contract value: RUB 1,103,990 (original); RUB 4,296,479 (new amount established April 30, 2014)

• Number: 31401523957
• Contractor: Obukhov Factory (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Delivery of 24 SM-878 launch tubes for Oscar II SSGN "Irkutsk"
• Time frame: 1Q2016 - 1Q2017
• Contract value: RUB 5,604,855,351

• Number: 31401668936
• Contractor: Rubin Central Design Bureau of Naval Technology (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Technical assistance in repairs and modernization of Oscar II SSGN "Irkutsk"
• Time frame: 2013 - 2017
• Contract value: RUB 1,020,769,502

• Number: 31401668962
• Contractor: DalZavod (Vladivostok)
• Description: Repairs of "Pallada" floating dry dock
• Time frame: October 15, 2014 - November 30, 2014
• Contract value: RUB 5,805,259

Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (Severodvinsk)

• Number: 31401666733
• Contractor: Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute of Design Materials (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Technical oversight and assistance during machining of GVSK screw shafts for Severodvinsk SSGNs ("Novosibirsk", "Krasnoyarsk", and Factory #164-166)
• Time frame: March 2019
• Contract value: RUB 3,339,921

XLT+: "Severodvinsk" Emergency Escape Chamber Tested

Severodvinsk SSGN "Severodvinsk" with emergency escape chamber removed (November 2014)
(Image credit: TASS)

        [Translations of RF MOD press release and Russian TV21 news clip + RT video clip + more photos]

NORTHERN FLEET TESTS EMERGENCY ESCAPE CHAMBER FOR NEW "SEVERODVINSK" SUBMARINE
November 10, 2014
http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=11999475@egNews

The Northern Fleet held training of the emergency escape chamber on the lead Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine "Severodvinsk", which joined the Russian Navy in June of this year.

According to Commander of the Northern Fleet Admiral Vladimir Korolev, "for the first time in the Russian period of our Navy's history, we have tested the direct applicability of the emergency escape chamber of a new nuclear-powered submarine with a test team on board."

Admiral Vladimir Korolev emphasized that "test results of the emergency escape chamber once again have confirmed that ships joining the fleet are reliable and well thought out. The careful preparation of the Northern Fleet Submarine Forces Command and the "Severodvinsk" crew for this event ensured safety execution of this highly complex combat training event."

A distinctive feature of this event was that, in the relatively shallow waters of Guba Zapadnaya Litsa, the nuclear-powered submarine, which displaces more than 13,000 tons and is nearly 140 meters long, had to submerge to a depth of 40 meters and become stable at that depth, thus replicating the motionless condition of a simulated distressed submarine on the seabed.

At the same time, the test team consisting of five men practiced steps for evacuating the simulated distressed submarine using the emergency escape chamber. In addition to the test team, inside the escape chamber was ballast that was equal to the total weight of the submarine's crew.

A second technical feature of this event was that after the emergency escape chamber with its positive buoyancy separated and freely floated to the surface, the submarine "became heavy" due to the mass of the escape chamber - and this was several tons. The crew had just a few seconds to stabilize the submarine at the assigned depth and later to safely surface.

After surfacing, the emergency escape chamber was towed to the side of a rescue vessel, and the test crew then climbed on board.

In addition to the "Severodvinsk" submarine crew, joining the training were units of the Northern Fleet's search and rescue service - the rescue vessel "Mikhail Rudnitskiy" and diver specialists.

Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov thanked the Northern Fleet personnel who participated in testing the emergency escape chamber for the courage and professionalism demonstrated during the training event.

All modern Russian Navy nuclear-powered submarines and those currently being built are equipped with emergency escape chambers.

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SUBMARINERS TEST EMERGENCY ESCAPE CHAMBER
November 10, 2014
http://tv21.ru/news/2014/11/10/?chid=13&newsid=74641

The Northern Fleet tested the emergency escape chamber on the lead Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine "Severodvinsk", which joined the Russian Navy in June of this year. Elvira Serga and Konstantin Kabanets went to sea to see how this went.

The operation that the submariners had to perform, which was unique in terms of its complexity: rescuing the crew of a simulated distressed submarine using the emergency escape chamber. This evacuation method was invented 53 years ago. During Soviet times, however, only two such training events were held. And this operation is being held for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy. The "Severodvinsk" nuclear-powered submarine is already heading to the operations area.

In the shallow waters of Guba Zapadnaya Litsa, the nuclear-powered submarine, which displaces 13,000 tons and is nearly 140 meters long, has to submerge to a depth of 40 meters and become stable and motionless at that depth, thus replicating a motionless condition on the seabed.

[Sergey Grishko - Northern Fleet Submarine Forces Deputy Commander for the Electro-Mechanical Service] "For a crew with rather consistent training, this is a complex maneuver. But it's absolutely safe. Considering the support units that have been assembled for this maneuver, I believe everything will be fine."

On "Severodvinsk", the emergency escape chamber is built into the sail. One can only enter and exit the submarine through it. The chamber has the same factory of safety as that of the submarine itself. In essence, it's one more compartment. Inside of it at the moment it separates free will be five men - the test team, and ballast that is equal to the total weight of the crew. The goal is to test the reliability of the rescue system.

Air is removed from the ballast tanks, and the submarine begins to submerge. The first smoke flare indicates that the submarine has reached its position at the designated depth. The second flare is a signal that the chamber has separated.

The completely watertight compartment, a "group parachute" with people inside, freely floats to the surface. At that moment, the submarine, which became heavier due to the mass of the emergency escape chamber, goes deeper due to inertia. The crew's task is to stabilize the submarine at the assigned depth and ensure a safe surfacing maneuver.

The first phase of the operation was a success. Now this gigantic "cork" needs to be pushed to a tug and then moored to the hull for later transport to port. SevMash representatives on board the tug breathed a sign of relief.

[Viktor Pavlov - senior master from SevMash in Severodvinsk] "Of course, it was an unforgettable scene. Everything happened exactly as it was supposed to. Very cool, everything turned out very well, and I'm very pleased!" The next phase - decompressing the escape chamber and evacuating the personnel.

The entire team consisted of five testers: Sergey Balazhigitov, Sergey Melnikov, Aleksandr Dorofeyev, Igor Osaulenko, and Vladimir Serebryakov were transferred to the surface unharmed. Their names have already become part of the history of the Russian Navy.

[Sergey Balazhigitov - communicator] "I feel excellent, exhilarated, and we completed the task. We're ready for the next tasks."

[Sergey Melnikov - chemist] "Oxygen was within maximum allowable concentration limits. At the moment we surfaced, it was 21%, which means that the oxygen reserves in this emergency escape chamber ensure that the assigned tasks can be performed."

[Igor Osaulenko - test group leader] "There were no abnormal sensations - it was like being in an elevator. We rocked a little, and there was a 20 degree list to one side, and we jumped out of the water. That was it. Everything happened literally within 10 seconds, so no one had any time to really think about it."

[Vladimir Serebryakov - damage control commander] "Well, I can now say with confidence that it works, because I tested it myself. The emergency escape chamber is reliable, and it performed its function completely and thoroughly."

The "Severodvinsk" crew also successfully managed its task. Without the escape chamber, the submarine was stabilized, it surfaced unharmed, and it returned to port. Here, too, moored the tug with the escape chamber - the most non-combatant component on the submarine.

[Aleksandr Moiseyev - Northern Fleet Submarine Forces Commander] "This was rather serious training and maneuvers for the submarine. That is, credit goes without doubt to the commanding officer and the personnel who prepared to test this armament. This equipment was tested under factory conditions, but we tested it under conditions at its permanent home port in order to confirm our confidence in the equipment."

[Sergey Mityayev - "Severodvinsk" commanding officer] "We remembered, we read what they wrote about this, we figured it out and then we did it. A crane is now placing it on a special platform that was brought from SevMash, where both the submarine and emergency escape chamber were built. Later, after this, they'll perform specific steps to remove the ballast that was placed in it, and then use a crane to place it in its normal seated position."

After the successful operation, the crew will have a short break, and then the "Severodvinsk" crew will again go back on combat watch.

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RT also released a video of the event. Below are more TASS photos of "Severodvinsk" and its emergency escape chamber.

XLT: "Sviyaga" Transport Dock Launched For GUGI

Project 22570 transport dock "Sviyaga" - November 6, 2014
(Image credit: Russian Public Television)

          [Translation of news clips by Kazan Radio & TV Company and Russian Public Television]

THE LONG VOYAGE: UNIVERSAL VESSEL BUILT IN TATARSTAN
Kazan Radio & TV Company
November 6, 2014
http://kzn.tv/kzntube/v-bolshoe-plavanie-sudno-mirovogo-masshtaba-postroili-v-rt/ 

A new floating transport dock was launched today. It was built in Zelenodolsk, at the Gorkiy Shipyard. The new vessel was named "Sviyaga" in accordance with a long-standing tradition of bestowing ships with names of the locations where they were built. The shipyard is perfectly located on the Volga River, the right-bank tributary of which is the Sviyaga. The dock has strategic importance to the Navy. Diana Makhmutova learns what makes this vessel so remarkable.

It is the first vessel of its type to be built in Russia in the 21st century. And it was built in Tatarstan. "Sviyaga" will be used to repair and service Russian Navy Northern Fleet vessels. And today at midnight the dock will enter the water. The view of it and its size are amazing, aren't they?

It is 14 meters wide and 134 meters long. By comparison, the Kazan-Arena stadium soccer field is 30 meters shorter. This dock will transport ships and vessels along the internal waterway system from the north to the south.

[Aleksey Burilichev - Vice Admiral, Commander of Military Unit № 40056, Hero of Russia] "It was designed to transport Varshavyanka- and Lada-class [7FBTK: KILO SS and Petersburg SS] submarines. It will allow us to freely fulfill tasking and transport ships wherever they are needed."

Freely – that is, in spite of sanctions. Now submarines, without heading into the open ocean, can travel within the country from the White Sea to the Baltic Sea, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, and from there on to the Caspian Sea. This naturally increases the Russian Navy's mobility.

[Ildar Khalikov - Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan] "The Gorkiy Shipyard here in Zelenodolsk in the Republic of Tatarstan is ready for any task. This year you have produced 50% more than was recorded last year. And over a short period, over the past five years, we're talking about a greater than four-fold increase."

When in use, the vessel will submerge up to 10 meters. The entire process is simple: the dock takes on ballast, the submarine enters the dock, then the repair vessel surfaces, and the submarine remains inside. The dock was designed so that it can sail under every bridge in the European portion of Russia. Those who distinguished themselves during the vessel's construction were presented awards by the leading dignitaries of the Republic.

[Anatoliy Yefimov - First Class design engineer, A.M. Gorkiy Zelenodolsk Shipyard] "During the construction of a single unit, there are 5,000 issues that need to be resolved, generally speaking. And sometimes as many as 12,000. It's a universal design into which you pour all of your soul, energy, effort and knowledge... and in the end, you're proud of what you accomplish."

The last distantly comparable vessel, named "Zeya", was built back in 1991, and it's located in the Pacific. The 21st century dock was built using the latest technology.

[Renat Mistakhov – A.M. Gorkiy Zelenodolsk Shipyard general director] "Today, Factory Serial #571, the unit that we are building, is ahead of schedule. According to the schedule, it's supposed to be ready in April 2015, but it's only November 2014. This is all due to your efforts. Our industry achieves such results when there is a secure tomorrow, when there are orders."

"Sviyaga" will depart on its first long voyage in August 2015.

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MODERN FLOATING DOCK LAUNCHED IN TATARSTAN
Russian Public Television
November 6, 2014
http://www.otr-online.ru/news/v-tatarstane-spustili-36633.html

Today shipbuilders in Tatarstan launched the "Sviyaga" floating transport dock.

This is first such vessel built in Russia in the past 12 years. It is intended for use in the Northern Fleet. "Sviyaga" will transport military ships from the north to the south, and they can be repaired in it, as well. Every piece of modern hardware needed is on board.

[Aleksandr Shlyakhtenko – Almaz Central Naval Design Bureau general director] "This is a special dock – for the Directorate of Deep-Sea Research. It will transport special-purpose vehicles. But the most important thing is that this dock can operate with robotic hardware."

The dock is nearly 135 meters long. That is longer than a soccer field. It is 14 meters wide. It will be capable of transporting cargo weighing more than 3,000 tons.

Putin Bringing Big Guns to G20 Summit

Russian Federation President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
(Image credit: TASS)

During next week's Group of 20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, Russian President Vladimir Putin will have something in his back pocket - something few other world leaders (if any) will have: his own naval task group.

In September, it was announced that, despite calls to prevent Putin from attending the G20 Leaders' Summit, the Russian president was expected to participate.

On October 23, a Russian Pacific Fleet surface task group departed Vladivostok for "combat service in southern areas of the Pacific Ocean," according to a naval spokesman. The group consists of Slava-class cruiser "Varyag", Udaloy I-class destroyer "Marshal Shaposhnikov", Baklazhan-class salvage and rescue tug "Fotiy Krylov", and Chilikin-class replenishment oiler "Boris Butoma".

While no press reporting to date has indicated exactly where in the south Pacific these ships will operate, leave it to social media to spill the details. In early November, some family members or loved ones of sailors on a couple of the task group's ships specifically indicated Australia as a future operating area. One source concerned about loosing cellphone contact with her loved one wrote, "There are no shorelines anywhere along the way to Sydney!" Another source reported that the ships would travel to Australia first before commencing a return leg towards Vladivostok.

Russian ships traveling to faraway exotic ports to support presidential visits is not unusual. Udaloy II-class destroyer "Admiral Chabanenko" supported President Dmitriy Medvedev's visit to Venezuela in November 2008, and "Varyag" called in San Francisco in June 2010 to support President Medvedev's visit to California. Even closer to home, Slava-class cruiser "Moskva" was in Sochi this August to support meetings between President Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

What makes this deployment strange is that no one in Canberra has mentioned any port calls by the "Varyag" task group. And if there are no scheduled port calls, why is the task group heading in that direction? How exactly does demonstrating the flag off the coast of Australia support Putin's G20 Summit plans?

XLT: Why NATO Fears Russian Exercises

                                 [Translation of Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper article]

WHY NATO FEARS RUSSIAN EXERCISES
November 3, 2014
By Anton Balagin
http://www.rg.ru/2014/11/03/uchenia-site.html

In peacetime, every military drains its soul in exercises. Moreover, such maneuvers by Russian military forces causes a nervous reaction, more like fear, from NATO. At times, not only are government officials and the press scared, but also professional military troops. We found out why this is happening.

"Sukhoi" versus "Aegis"

The encounter of a Russian bomber with the U.S. Navy destroyer DONALD COOK is worthy of a place in military training manuals as an example of an effective psychological attack. On April 12, an unarmed SU-24, which took off from Shagol (Chelyabinsk) Airbase, was flying over the Black Sea and approached the new American combatant ship, which is armed with cruise missiles and the latest “Aegis” command and control system. After the encounter, DONALD COOK quickly headed to the Romanian port of Constanța where, according to media reports, 27 sailors from the destroyer’s crew requested to be released from service. On April 14, the Pentagon released an emotional statement in which the SU-24 flight was called a violation of military traditions and international agreements.

What really upset the Americans? The Aegis system, with which the destroyer is equipped, is the latest word in technology in terms of detecting and destroying seaborne and airborne targets. It brings together the radars, fire control systems, and missiles of all ships equipped with it into a single network resembling a naval internet. Aegis radars can simultaneously track and target missiles at hundreds of targets located thousands of kilometers away. Altogether, a magnificent system.

But in place of bombs or missiles, the SU-24s approaching DONALD COOK carried a container with a Khibina radio-electronic warfare system. After approaching the ship, the Khibina systems turned off its [the destroyer’s] smart radar, combat control links, and data transfer systems – in a word, the entire Aegis, like we turn off a television with the push of a button on a remote. Afterwards, the fighter-bombers conducted a simulated missile attack on the blind and deaf destroyer. Then another and then... a total of 12 combat approaches.

DONALD COOK never approached Russian waters again. Nor did NATO ships that relieved it in the Black Sea.

The Russians are Coming!

Flying over American ships is a time-honored tradition for our pilots. In Soviet times, TU-95 strategic bombers would sneak up, undetected, to American aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and perform low-level flyovers while photographing their equipment and showing them friendly gestures through the windows. In naval parlance, this is called demonstrating the flag. The encounters occurred in neutral waters and, from the view of international law, were absolutely without reproach.

The U.S. wasn’t taken to court after, in August, Northern Fleet ships detected an American Virginia-class submarine in waters adjacent to the Barents Sea and forced it to leave the area. Everyone trains: when one penetrates, others detect and thwart. Some succeed, others don’t.

Each flight by Russian bombers along U.S. borders and its allies causes a storm of indignation by NATO. Fighters are scrambled to intercept, and then a whirlwind is stirred up in the press. In the end, some important official rises to the NATO pulpit in Brussels to call the incident “another provocation by Russia.” By the way, such flights – near Chinese borders, let’s say – are performed regularly by American bombers. And they conduct large-scale exercises there. And U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion intelligence collection aircraft patrol near Russia’s eastern borders, and our MIG-31s scramble to intercept. And no one objects – everyone trains.

Incidentally, TU-160 flights far from Russia that unnerve the West – they are not just combat training or demonstrating the flag. Intercepting a super-sonic strategic bomber is a very expensive luxury. Whereas super-sonic is cruising speed for a “White Swan” [TU-160], for fighters chasing it such speeds require the exertion of all of their forces – afterburners at a minimum. Which is harmful to the engine’s service life. And for an F-22 Raptor, each such flight turns into repairs of its priceless, in the true sense of the word, stealth coating.

Where are We?

Sometimes there is no need for the Russian military to scare its colleagues from the North Atlantic bloc or western journalists – NATO does that successfully on its own. Not too long ago, residents of the small Polish town of Gruta, 220 kilometers north of Warsaw, were on the brink of panic when they saw foreign military helicopters in a rapeseed field next to the town.

Recalling World War II, elder residents thought that the Germans had again invaded, while younger residents believed that the Russians were coming. Additionally, soldiers in foreign uniforms poured out of the helicopters and began wandering around the town trying to find out from passersby where they had ended up. They asked in English.

They turned out to be American helicopters that had become lost on a return trip from exercises held in Latvia. Six UH-60 Black Hawks were flying to the Polish airbase in Mirosławiec, but fell behind the main group and got lost. Finding a farmer who understood a little English, the pilots unfolded a map and asked him to show where their current location. He did, and the mayor of Gruta presented the Americans with a pamphlet that described the local attractions.

One of the most effective points of that exercise (besides the forced landing of the Black Hawks in the rapeseed field) was the assault landing of 500 troops at the Latvian airport of Lielvārde. “But there, the NATO military personnel at least knew where they had landed,” wrote an El Mundo military affairs reporter.

This Week in Contracts: October 27-November 2, 2014

Admiralty Shipyards/Admiralteyskiye Verfi (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401637582
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Delivery and installation of shaft electric plant for Project 21180 icebreaker (Factory 02470)
• Time frame: January 2016
• Contract value: RUB 247,236,032

• Number: 31401653680
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Assembly of wells for Ananas and Parus-98UP masts/antennas for Kilo diesel submarines ("Krasnodar", "Velikiy Novgorod", "Kolpino")
• Time frame: January 2015 ("Krasnodar"); December 2015 ("Velikiy Novgorod"); February 2016 ("Kolpino")
• Contract value: RUB 3,519,067

Almaz Central Naval Design Bureau (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401654304
• Contractor: Krylov State Science Center (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Experimental research of the sea-handling properties of a Project 20386 frigate model
• Time frame: September 2014-November 2015
• Contract value: RUB 4,100,000

• Number: 31401660430
• Contractor: Pella (Otradnoye)
• Description: Conversion and modernization of a serially-produced Project 11982 research vessel for a "technical resources suite" that is being developed
• Time frame: July 2014 - November 2016
• Contract value: RUB 430,000,000
• 7FBTK remarks: There are two Project 11982 research vessels currently under construction at Pella, but only one ("Ladoga") has been officially laid down; this contract probably pertains to "Ladoga" as it is scheduled to be delivered to the MOD (Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research (GUGI)) in 2016

• Number: 31401660456
• Contractor: N. Ye. Zhukovskiy Central Aerodynamic Institute (Zhukovskiy)
• Description: Determination of air flow parameters over Project 20386 frigate flight deck
• Time frame: by November 2015
• Contract value: RUB 2,700,000

Amur Shipyard/Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod (Komsomolsk-na-Amure)

• Number: 31401640619
• Contractor: SPO Arktika
• Description: Installation of P-409 integrated internal ship communications system on Steregushchiy frigate "Sovershennyy"
• Time frame: October 2014
• Contract value: RUB 4,275,640

Astrakhan Shipyard/Astrakhanskiy Sudoremontnyy Zavod (Astrakhan)

• Number: 31401644995
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Installation of anchor and towing winch on Project 22870 salvage and rescue tug
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 1,042,800 [same amount as 31401645094; possible typo]

• Number: 31401645094
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Installation of M330-3S deck crane on Project 22870 salvage and rescue tug
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 1,042,800 [same amount as 31401644995; possible typo]

• Number: 31401645252
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Technical assistance in the construction of Project 22870 salvage and rescue tug (Factory 007)
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: not specified

• Number: 31401646931
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Set-up of R-782-6-3.1 on Project 22870 salvage and rescue tug SBS-565
• Time frame: 4Q2014
• Contract value: RUB 2,432,442

Maritime Information Systems-Agat Concern/Kontsern MorInformSistema-Agat (Moscow)

• Number: 0473100003814000003
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Delivery of software to support shipboard automation systems for controlling combined use of underwater vehicles
• Time frame: within 60 days of contract signing
• Contract value: RUB 6,998,646
• 7FBTK remarks: [1] SPARC v9 with MTsST-4R/500MHz processor; RAM: 4GB DDR2; VRAM: 16 MB; I/O: Ethernet 10/100/1000, RS232/485, USB 2.0; O/S: MSVS.3.0; [2] software suite will include software programs for controlling unmanned aerial vehicles that will deliver hydrometeorological survey equipment to survey areas, surface vehicles that will measure hydrophysical properties of the ocean, and underwater "robotic manipulators"

• Number: 0473100003814000006
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Delivery of ship-shore communications system (satellite, wired, and VHF radio usage) for VTC, VOIP, text messaging, file sharing
• Time frame: within 80 calendar days of contract signing
• Contract value: RUB 7,443,284

Northern Machine-Building Enterprise/Severnoye Mashinostroitelnoye Predpriyatiye [SevMash] (Severodvinsk)

• Number: 31401646975
• Contractor: Novaya Era (St. Petersburg)
• Description: Delivery of switchboard equipment for Dolgorukiy submarines
• Time frame: before December 31, 2018
• Contract value: RUB 221,806,581

• Number: 31401649913
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Transportation (by vehicle) of large heavy cargo from SevMash to KirovEnergoMash (St. Petersburg)
• Time frame: November 26, 2014 - December 16, 2014
• Contract value: RUB 1,560,000
• 7FBTK remarks: cargo dimensions/weight = 6,180mm x 3,760mm x 3,660mm/36.6MT

• Number: 31401655593
• Contractor: Manometr (Engels)
• Description: Delivery of PDV-120 (model 14202-02; 400kgf/cm2) air pressure converters (x6)
• Time frame: within 270 days of contract signing
• Contract value: RUB 12,804,980
• 7FBTK remarks: possibly for ship/submarine related to MOD's Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research (GUGI)

• Number: 31401660401
• Contractor: ElektroZavod (Moscow)
• Description: Delivery of TSZM-40-OM5 transformers (x5) for Kirov nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov"
• Time frame: within 150 days of contract signing
• Contract value: RUB 1,093,066

Northern Shipyard/Severnaya Verf (St. Petersburg)

• Number: 31401657708
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Assembly-welding work (10,000 man-hours) on Gorshkov FFG "Admiral Flota Kasatonov"/"Admiral Golovko"/"Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Isakov", Ivanov AGI "Ivan Khurs", Project 23120 ATA "Elbrus"/"MB-75"/"Kapitan Shevchenko", and Steregushchiy II FFG "Gremyashchiy"/"Provornyy"
• Time frame: November 2014 - November 2015
• Contract value: RUB 4,000,000

Vympel Shipyard/Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Vympel (Rybinsk)

• Number: 31401642843
• Contractor: not specified
• Description: Delivery of Edge Tech 4200 side-looking sonar for Prut submarine rescue ship "Epron"
• Time frame: not specified
• Contract value: RUB 20,760,687

Zvezda Far East Shipyard/Dalnyevostochnyy Zavod Zvezda (Bolshoy Kamen)

• Number: 31401636932
• Contractor: Elzhibor (Nakhodka)
• Description: Repairs of boiler plant on "Pallada" floating dry dock
• Time frame: September 24, 2014 - November 6, 2014
• Contract value: RUB 1,794,539

• Number: 31401644547
• Contractor: Independent Contractor - Andrey Vladimirovich Dzyubak
• Description: Cleaning of underwater section of "Pallada" floating dry dock
• Time frame: October 10, 2014 - October 24, 2014
• Contract value: RUB 2,188,000 
• 7FBTK remarks: based on description and contract value, this contract probably supersedes 31401614316, which was reported in last week's TWIC

Another SLBM Launch Scheduled for Next Week?

Flight bans (red) and flight route restrictions (green) for possible SLBM launch -- November 5-8, 2014
(Map courtesy of Google Earth)

Several flight bans and flight route restrictions have been announced for November 5-7, 2014:

Flight Bans
G2239/14 - TEMPO DANGER AREAS ACT WI COORD:
.....AREA 1: 693300N 0343200E-693300N 0350000E-692900N 0350000E-693100N 0344000E-693300N 0343200E.
.....AREA 2: 713000N 0345000E-711200N 0374700E-710200N 0374500E-702500N 0371100E-704200N 0342000E-705300N 0342000E-713000N 0345000E.
.....SFC - UNL, DAILY 0200-1200, 05 NOV 02:00 2014 UNTIL 07 NOV 12:00 2014

G2240/14 - TEMPO DANGER AREA ACT WI COORDINATES:
.....825300N 1050800E-823500N 1052500E-813600N 1051200E-813400N 1040900E-811900N 0894600E-813600N 0884800E-823300N 0865600E-823900N 0880700E-825300N 1050800E.
.....SFC - UNL, DAILY 0200-1200, 05 NOV 02:00 2014 UNTIL 07 NOV 12:00 2014.

Flight Restrictions
G2237/14 - ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD:
.....B488 NUTLA - BALUD, B815 EVMUV - LIMUS, B816 ATKUP - LIMUS.
.....SFC - UNL, DAILY 0200-1200, 05 NOV 02:00 2014 UNTIL 07 NOV 12:00 2014.

G2238/14 - FLW ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD:
.....B480 BADRO - BESON, B934 MOTEM - RAVUL, G490 DEVID - KUTET.
.....SFC - UNL, DAILY 0200-1200, 05 NOV 02:00 2014 UNTIL 07 NOV 12:00 2014.

P7768/14 -
.....ATS RTE B240 SEGMENT TILICHIKI NDB (TK) - OKLED CLSD.
.....SFC - UNL, DAILY 0200-1200, 05 NOV 02:00 2014 UNTIL 07 NOV 12:00 2014.

The above depicts the exact same flight restrictions and nearly the same flight ban coordinates used when Delta IV SSBN "Bryansk" launched a single SS-N-23 Skiff SLBM from the Barents Sea on October 30, 2014, which suggests this, too, will be used for an SS-N-23 launch.

The last SS-N-23 launch event occurred on May 8, 2014, when Delta IV SSBN "Tula" launched a single missile from the Barents Sea.