After Repairs, Destroyer Heads For Horn Of Africa

January 22 2009

Russia

The Russian destroyer Admiral Chabanenko has completed urgent repairs this week at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad and is now headed for the Horn of Africa, reports Interfax-AVN.

Work was done on all of the ship's pipelines and ventilations systems, partial repairs to the boiler and realignment of the refrigerant compressor.

The repairs were completed in four days because the destroyer was needed for operations near the Horn of Africa, said an unnamed Baltic Fleet source. ...

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