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Russia
delivers 2 missile boats for Turkmenistan Navy
Turkmen
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov visited a mooring of a Turkmen
naval unit, where two newly built missile boats had recently anchored.
The missile boats are built at the Sredne-Nevsky shipbuilding plant
within Russian-Turkmen military-technical cooperation.
“Turkmenistan as any country with the entry to the sea needs the
warships for patrolling its maritime border, ensuring security and combating
terrorism, poaching and drug trafficking,” the president told
naval sailors. “The Caspian Sea will always be the sea of friendship
and accord, which Turkmenistan’s policy of neutrality, openness
and good neighborliness pursues for,” Berdymukhamedov pointed
out.
The missile
boats during assembly.
The Project 1241.8 Molniya corvettes carry Kh-35 Uran-E antiship missile,
a 76mm gun, two AK-630 30mm CIWS mounts and one Igla SAM launcher.
(source: internet)
President Berdymukhamedov
stated about his decision to build a modern naval fleet on the Caspian
Sea in August 2009 at a meeting of the Turkmen Security Council. The Naval
Institute of the Turkmen Defence Ministry was founded already in 2010.
The program to develop the Navy for the period until 2015 was developed
and approved under the main provisions of the Military Doctrine of Turkmenistan.
“The approval
of this document heralds the beginning of important and responsible work
to form domestic naval forces in the Defence Ministry that should protect
the interests of our country in the Caspian Sea,” the president
remarked on Sunday.
The Sunday event “points to the permanent upgrading of the domestic
fleet, which is systematically replenished with advanced military hardware,”
the president underlined.
Source: Itar-Tass
The missile
boats during assembly.
