USC Design Bureaus Can Meet Foreign Customers' Cost Efficiency Wishes
Quick Look
Andrey Puchkov, CEO of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), stated that USC's design bureaus can tailor export naval projects to foreign customers' cost efficiency requirements, offering various configurations and weapon system options for a single platform.
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Why It Matters
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is a Russian state-owned company that designs and builds ships. The International Maritime Defense Show Fleet-2026 is an event showcasing naval defense technologies. CEO Andrey Puchkov is commenting on USC's export capabilities.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 11. /TASS/. The design bureaus of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are able to meet the wishes of foreign customers according to the cost efficiency criterion. CEO Andrey Puchkov told TASS at the International Maritime Defense Show Fleet-2026.
"A distinctive feature of forming competitive configurations of the proposed projects for export deliveries is the ability to meet the wishes of the customer as much as possible according to the cost efficiency criterion. The project can have several options from relatively cheap to the most equipped. Providing for such an option, already at the design stage, the USC design bureaus offer several options for replacing weapons and weapons systems on the basis of a single platform," Puchkov said.
As an example of such projects in the USC's portfolio of proposals, he cited the frigate 22356, corvette 20382 and small corvette 22800E, which were explored in terms of the deployment of a wide range of missiles, artillery, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-submarine and other weapons and armament, as well as types of main power plants.
TASS is a strategic media partner of the Fleet 2026 maritime defense show.
Open Questions
- Which specific foreign customers are being targeted?
- What are the price ranges for the different configuration options?
- What is the current demand for these specific naval platforms in the international market?
- What are the geopolitical implications of these export capabilities?
