Promising destroyer type "Lider" will be created in Russia, roughly, by 2018, the ITAR-TASS referring to the deputy chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission Oleg Bochkareva.
"In iron" the first prototype will be in three years, "- he said.
Bochkarev said that currently work on the project "is at all." Create a draft of a new craft specialists Northern Design Bureau (St. Petersburg).
As previously reported, the development work on advanced destroyers were made to the state defense order in 2014 This is a multi-purpose ship large displacement, equipped with shock weapons and increased autonomy. New destroyer to replace the ships projects 956 and 1155 - the main Russian surface ships of the oceanic zone.