Very high demands concerning reliability, operational characteristics and functioning in full are being put on the modern ship electric drives. More than twenty years of experience in the progressive implementation of switched reluctance electric drives of auxiliary mechanisms on submarines and more powerful drives on the supply ship Victor Konetsky has qualitatively developed technologies for designing and producing the switched reluctance drives, successfully competing with permanent-magnet electric motors. The results of the preliminary design of the switched reluctance drive SRD 1000-1100 with a power of 1000 kW, 1100 rpm are considered in the paper. The basic principle of the electric propulsion system representing sectioning the executive control of the propulsion motor into several independently working parts is proposed. The distinctive features and advantages of the switched reluctance drive in comparison with an asynchronous motor are considered, and the oscillogram of a single-phase failure of the switched drive is also shown. The results of the preliminary design of the 1000 kW switched inductor drive have been illustrated. Besides, the structure of the switched reluctance drive 1000-1100, which is shown as the concept of building a complete electric drive, is considered. This concept includes the following aspects: the complete electric drive is based on the modular equipment, the sections separate control is organized, all intellectual control modules are connected by a common CAN network, etc. The parameters for comparing an asynchronous propulsion motor of Schorch company and switched reluctance drive 1000-1100 are shown in the table. Therefore, for propulsion systems there is a tendency to create the electric drive systems based on the switched reluctance motors.Рассмотрены требования, предъявляемые к современным судовым электроприводам, касающиеся надежности, эксплуатационных характеристик и функционирования в полном объеме. Проанализированы данные, подтвержденные более чем двадцатилетним опытом работы по поступательному внедрению вентильных индукторных электроприводов вспомогательных механизмов на подводных лодках и более мощных приводов на корабле-снабженце «Виктор Конецкий», который качественно развил технологии проектирования и производства вентильно-индукторных двигателей, успешно конкурирующих с электродвигателями с постоянными магнитами. В работе рассматриваются результаты аванпроекта вентиль-