Karakurt-class corvette

Class overview
Name: Project 22800, codename Karakurt
Builders:
Operators:  Russian Navy
Preceded by: Buyan-M class corvette
Subclasses: Project 22800
In service: 2018-
Building: 4
Planned: 18
General characteristics
Type: Corvette
Displacement: 800 tons
Length: 65 m (213 ft)
Beam: 10 m (33 ft)
Draught: 4 m (13 ft)
Draft: 2 m (7 ft)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
Endurance: 15 days
Armament:

The Project 22800 corvettes, codenamed Karakurt (Russian: малые ракетные корабли проекта 22800, шифр «Каракурт») is a new missile corvette class under construction for the Russian Navy.

The new class is intended to be a more seaworthy, blue water complement to the Buyan-M class corvettes, which had been designed for the littoral zone and are currently serving in Russia's Caspian Flotilla and Black Sea Fleet.[1] The first two ships were laid down on 24 December 2015, and as of July 2016, four are under construction. In August 2016, it was reported that a total of seven ships have been ordered from the Pella shipyard (at least one of which will be built at More in Crimea), and that five further ships of the class have been ordered from the Zelenodolsk shipyard.[2] The first ship is to join the navy in 2018.[3][4]

The Karakurts are to be armed with the Kalibr-NK long range cruise missile and the P-800 Onyx medium-range anti-ship missile and have an endurance of 15 days.[5]

Ships

Italics indicate estimates

Name Hull No. Project Builders Laid down Launched Commissioned Fleet Note
Uragan 22800 Pella Shipyard,
St. Petersburg
24 Dec 2015 2017 Black Sea Fleet
Typhoon 22800 Pella Shipyard,
St. Petersburg
24 Dec 2015 2018 Black Sea Fleet
Storm 22800 PO More Shipbuilding Yard
Feodosiya, Crimea
11 May 2016[6]
Shkval 22800 Pella Shipyard,
St. Petersburg
29 July 2016[7]

References

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