What are the odds of this actually happening.

Russian officials on Thursday said that the country will be completing the construction of a new class nuclear-powered destroyer by 2016.

 

Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky told RIA Novosti that the prototype of the new class destroyer, which is designed to be used at sea, would be finished in around five years, adding that the warship had a 90 percent chance of being powered by nuclear energy.

 

 

Vysotsky spoke at the 5th International Maritime Defense Show, IMDS-2011, in St. Petersburg, Russia, after Roman Trotsenko, President of United Shipbuilding Corporation, had previously stated that the company was beginning the design for a new nuclear-powered destroyer.

 

Trotesenko said the design phase alone, which is expected to begin this fall, would last around two years, and that it would be constructed for the Russian Navy.

I expect to see nuclear powered destroyers being built in Russia right after those aircraft carriers expected to start construction in 2015 get going. Unlikely. Russia does have the infrastructure to build nuclear powered ships, but those ships are icebreakers, not destroyers.

 

I guess I am just very skeptical. I don't see this as mission impossible for Russia, rather mission "highly unlikely."

 

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I guess I am just very skeptical. I don't see this as mission impossible for Russia, rather mission "highly unlikely."

 

Agreed.

There is, quite frankly, more chance of Maria Sharapova crash-landing a MiG-29K in my street than of the Russians completing a DDGN by 2016.

There is, quite frankly, more chance of Maria Sharapova crash-landing a MiG-29K in my street than of the Russians completing a DDGN by 2016.

 

I know which I'd be hoping for.