On June 27, 2014, Shipbuilding Company Almaz OJSC launched two coast guard ships of project 22460 (building numbers 506, 508) and held a flag-raising ceremony for the coast guard ship (building number 504), the shipyard’s press center says.
The coast guard ship of project 22460 was designed by the Severnoye Design Bureau (Saint-Petersburg) and intended for controlling of the state border and territorial sea as well as for fighting terrorists and pirates.
The ship’s displacement is 630 tonnes, speed - 30 knots, cruising range 3,500 miles, endurance - 30 days, length – 62.5 m.
The boat is outfitted with modern navigation and communications systems and carries onboard a helicopter.
The coast guard ship of project 22460 (building number 505) is to be delivered in October 2014, a year before the contract term.
Shipbuilding Company Almaz was founded in 1933 as a shipbuilding unit of USSR Coast Guard. Today Almaz is a modern manufacturer of the state-of-the-art military equipment. The company specializes in the construction of JHSV and high-speed interception / patrol boats, large and small ships, of high-specification air-cushion vehicles (ACV), civil boats and yachts for domestic customers and for export. Technical base of the enterprise enables to conduct all sorts of ship repair and modernisation simultaneously with shipbuilding. Ship are launched and hosted with the help of two floating docks of 3,000 and 2,500 t payload capacity. Docks are used to hoist and roll ships to horizontal building berths which have more than ten building places.
Over its history, Almaz has built over 1,000 different ships including more than 500 ships for Russia’s Border Guard.