Russia set to build nuclear-powered destroyer by 2016

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RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED July 01, 2011

Russia will finish in 2016 the construction of a new class destroyer, which will most likely be nuclear powered, commander of the Russian Navy Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Thursday.

"A prototype of an ocean-going class destroyer will be built in 2016 for the country's Navy," Vysotsky said at the 5th International Maritime Defense Show, IMDS-2011, in St. Petersburg.

The admiral added there was a 90 percent probability that the warship would be equipped with a nuclear-powered engine.

President of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation Roman Trotsenko said earlier on Thursday that his company would start designing a new-generation, nuclear-powered destroyer for the Russian Navy this fall.

He said the design phase will take up to two years.

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