9 photos of Russia’s new stealth frigate, a small warship that’s much better armed than the US Navy’s LCS

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Russian Defense Ministry

The Russian Navy will receive a new stealth frigate in late July, according to TASS, a Russian state-owned media outlet.

The Admiral Gorshkov, the first of the new class of stealth frigates, will be delivered to the Russian Navy on July 28, TASS reported.

Launched in 2010, the Admiral Gorshkov was expected to be delivered in November 2016, but got pushed back to November 2017, due to several technical issues, according to The Diplomat. It then got pushed back again to July 2018.

The second Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate, the Admiral Kasatonov, has been delayed as well. Still, the ship does appear to be well-armed — especially as compared to the US Navy’s littoral combat ships, a class of small surface combatants that has also struggled with delays and propulsion problems.

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First laid down in 2006, the Admiral Gorshkov is named after Sergei Gorshkov, the former commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy.

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