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The “Thundering” corvette will be handed over to the Navy in August

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Корвет "Гремящий" передадут ВМФ в августе - РИА Новости, 12.06.2020

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Corvette "Thundering". Archive photo


ST. PETERSBURG, June 12 - RIA Novosti. The Severnaya Verf shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) plans to transfer the corvette of project 20385 Gremyashchy to the Russian Navy at the end of August 2020, the director general of the plant, Igor Ponomarev , told RIA Novosti .

"Thundering" will come to the factory next week. It will undergo minor improvements, and in early July he will go to complete the state tests, after which he will return to the factory. And at the end of August we plan to transfer it to the Navy, "he said.

According to him, the ship for 9 months of testing showed good performance.

“There wasn’t a single malfunction either in the Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov’s frigate or in the“ Gremyashchy ”corvette during the test period. The only question is a more thorough check by the Ministry of Defense of all the technical characteristics of weapons systems, energy, and so on. I believe that the plant will fulfill its obligations on these two ships, "said Ponomarev.

The corvette project 20385 was developed by TsMKB Almaz. The multi-purpose corvettes of this project are designed to detect and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, to ensure landing, guard the coastal zone, and escort other ships. The ships are equipped with artillery, missile, anti-submarine, sonar and radar systems. Thanks to the original architecture and the use of composite materials in combination with special coatings, as well as rocket armaments and antenna posts built into the hull, corvettes significantly reduced radar, acoustic and optical visibility.

Project 20385 corvettes have a displacement of more than 2 thousand tons, a length of 104 meters, a width of 13 meters, and a speed of up to 27 knots. Cruising range - about 4 thousand nautical miles, crew - 99 people. The ships of this project are armed with the Caliber-NK universal missile system , the Redut anti-aircraft missile system, the A-190-01 100 mm artillery mount, two 30-mm AK-630M anti-aircraft guns, and the Package anti-submarine system. Ka-27PL (Ka-27PS) anti-submarine helicopter can be based on the corvette .


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