via Naval Show. ru
On January, 18th the ceremony of a keel-laying of the first serial air cushion amphibious assault landing craft "Denis Davidov" of the project 21820 a class of "Dugon" is laid down on "Yaroslavl shipyard" JSC.The head boat of this project "Ataman Platov" has been laid down on February, 2006 and since 2009 carries out missions as a part of one of connections of the surface ships of Caspian fleet. The project of a landing boat is designed by the "R.E. Alexeev's Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau" (Nizhny Novgorod).The full displacement of air cushion amphibious assault landing craft of a class "Dugon" is 280 tons, the length - 45 m, the width - 8,6 m, the full speed - 35 knots. The ship is equipped with two diesel engines M507A-2D with a capacity of 9 thousand h.p. each. Load-carrying capacity - 140 tons, crew - six persons. It is possible to place on the boat three tanks or 5 armored transport vehicles .According to the Central Naval Portal, two more landing boats of the project 21820 will be laid down this year on "Yaroslavl shipyard".The building contract of a series of boats of this project has been signed by the Ministry of Defense and "Yaroslavl shipyard" JSC on June, 23rd, 2011I don't quite get this. The display ship doesn't look air cushion but who knows.
