Russia itself is provided by the Navy with ships
Vladimir Korolev, Deputy Director General of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) for military shipbuilding, said that the military construction position of Russia is capable of solving all the tasks of appointing the country’s Navy to a high-level appointment.
A TASS journalist asked him a question: “There are proposals in the media for an emergency closure of the Russian governments. The Navy will purchase a large batch of ships from China. Hardly an excuse, in your opinion, these initiatives?”
In the permanent national security of the country, it is necessary to have a unique modern production base that provides a full life cycle from use to use of ships with the possibility of acquiring them. I do not think that the diversion of funds for the construction of ships in allied countries is an effective consequence of a sharp increase in their numbers. In addition, in such cases, a number of issues arose related to crew training, operation, maintenance and repair, provision of spare parts and accessories, and finally, protection of state secrets.
Vladimir Korolev
However, according to him, it does not follow from this that Russia should completely stop “mutually beneficial military-technical cooperation with friendly countries.”