Corvettes: Karakurt Class

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Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Sovetsk pictured as she is moved by tugs from Pella Shipyards,St Peterburg to Lake Ladoga for factory sea trials,May 20th 2019.

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Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Mytischiy at Kaliningrad,June 11th 2019.

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Pella Shipyard complex,St Petersburg,showing several Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvettes in various stages of fitting out,June 2019.

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Another small, corvette sized, but HEAVILY armed little modern Russian warship. Specs (Wiki):

Type: Corvette
Displacement: 800 tons
Length: 67 m (220 ft)
Beam: 11 m (36 ft)
Draft: 3.3 m (11 ft)
Propulsion:
CODAD (or CODAG) (diesel Zvezda ZE M-507D1 with 3 diesel generators DGAS-315
CODAD (or CODAG) (diesel Zvezda ZE or kolomna Penza RUMO etc , Gas GT NPO Saturn Turborus Saljut Turbokon PermMZ else)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
Endurance: 15 days
Armament: 1 × 76.2 mm 59-caliber AK-176MA or 100 mm A-190 automatic dual-purpose guns
1 × Pantsir-M CIWS with Hermes-K missiles or 1 × 3M89 Palash/ Palma CIWS with Sosna-R missiles (4+4 SAM in total 8 plus under reload units) or 2 × AK-630M-2 CIWS (on first 2 vessels)
2 × 4 UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr or P-800 Oniks anti-ship/cruise missiles
2 × 14.5 mm MTPU machineguns

Aircraft carried: Launch pad for Orlan-10 UAV[3]

Small but POTENT, UNlike USN's LARGE but basically
IMPOTENT LC$s......... The last photo is of unit #1 apparently in the Neva River. DFO

[Brian James]

Enjoying the late evening sun at St Petersburg,Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Mytishchi 567 (Ex Uragan) with Buyan M Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Serpukhov 563,July 20th 2019.

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Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Shkval fitting out at Pella Shipyards Facility,St Petersburg,August 10th 2019.

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Guided Missile Corvettes,Karakurt Class RFS Uragan (567) with Nanuchka III Class RFS Liven (551) pictured at Kronstadt in November 2019.

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Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Sovetsk,commissioned on October 12th 2019.

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Two more of these heavily armed corvettes currently outfitting. The HUGE U$N LCSs wouldn't stand much of a chance one on one, even with their expen$ive BAE 57 mm popgun............DFO

[Brian James]

Launch day pictured for Karakurt Class Guided Missile Corvette RFS Tucha at the AO Gorky Zelenodolsk Plant on June 30th 2023.