Shipbuilding news for August 2007

• DEFENCE NEWS IN BRIEF
  The news review is here
  

  
  

• Russia won’t refuse from making own elementary base
  Russian policy makers do not agree to use imported stuff
  

  
  

• Who reforms Russian military industry?
  The role of ROE in terms of influencing the processes taking place in the defense industry of Russia goes far beyond those of a state intermediary in arms export
  

  
  

• Deck aviation will get own training center
  A new training center NITKA will be constructed near Yeysk on the sea of Azov
  

  
  

• Privatization of the sea based strategic missiles
  Five defense enterprises of the Chelyabinsk region will be converted into JSCs by the end of 2007
  

  
  

• Boreis will get Bulava next year
  Missile will be finished in 2008
  

  
  

• The government is dividing posts
  Until very recently everybody thought that the First Vice-Premier Sergey Ivanov would take personal responsibility for the fate of the reforms in the shipbuilding
  

  
  

• Quality of the defense
  Trade and Industry Chamber together with the Federal Service on the Defense Order signed the agreement
  

  
  

• President Putin pins hopes on nano-technologies
  The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the federal law «On Russian Corporation of Nano-Technologies»
  

  
  

• Nizhegorodsky Teplohod resumes making floating cranes
  According to the press release of the company first it plans to make fully rotated cranes with the capacity 5-16 tons
  

  
  

• Yantar launched the Indian project
  Kaliningrad based shipyard Yantar, part of the Concern for Medium and Small Tonnage Shipbuilding, laid down the head project 1135.6 frigate for Navy of India