Russia intends to stay the leading seller of patrol caters and landing ships

Today Russia has the first place among the suppliers of new caters and the landing ships (29 units worth over 1 billion $). It also has a growing package of orders: in 2001-2005 it exported 10 ships (227 million $), in 2005-2010 this parameter will reach 19 units (776 million $). In 2011-2015 Russia will still strengthen its position in the market. Russian portfolio of orders for these 5 years already makes 21 units (760 million $). Recently Russia undertook a number of measures aimed at strengthening the positions in this segment in the market, especially in a number of the most perspective countries. In particular, in February, 2001 Vietnamese Navy began tests of the first patrol boat PS-500 (displacement 530t) built by Ho Chi Minh shipyard with the assistance of Russia. In the further it was planned to continue the work on this series with the purpose of their improving and attributing to them the functions of small corvettes. At the order of Vietnam Russian designed corvette of the type SKR-2100.