27.06.2012
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Photo: Corvette
Volgodonsk.
The ceremony to be held at the yard will be attended by Russian Navy top-ranking officers and representatives of St. Petersburg City Administration. Few days after hoisting of the St. Andrew's Flag (Russian Navy ensign), corvette
Volgodonsk will be towed to the Caspian Flotilla base via inland waterways.
Recall that acceptance certificate of Project 21630
Buyan corvette
Volgodonsk was signed in Dec 2011 in Baltic Fleet (BF) main base Baltiysk after successfully passed state trials. It is the first batch-produced
Buyan-class corvette built by JSC
Almaz Shipbuilding Firm (St. Petersburg).
Launched in May 2011, corvette
Volgodonsk was for the first time presented to public at the International Maritime Defense Show IMDS-2011 in St. Petersburg. Project 21630
Buyan new-generation corvette was developed by JSC
Zelenodolsk Design Bureau under direction of chief designer Y. Kushir.
General characteristics:
displacement – about 500 tons
length – 62 meters
beam – 9.6 meters
height – 6.57 meters
draft – 2 meters
propulsion plant – CODAD two-shaft diesel
propulsor - 2 water jets
speed – 28 knots
fuel range – up to 1,500 nautical miles
endurance – 10 days
complement – 29-36 men
Armament of Project 21630 Buyan corvette:
navigation aids – radar MR-231, tactical data system
Sigma
radar equipment – radar
Pozitiv, radar 5P-10
Laska for gun mounts and antiaircraft guns
radioelectronics – 2 x 10 launchers of PK-10
Smelyi decoy system
artillery arms – 100-mm gun mount A190-01
Universal, two 14.5-mm machinegun mounts MTPU, 1 x 40 122-mm MLRS A-215
Grad-M
antiaircraft artillery – 2 x 6 30-mm antiaircraft guns AK-306
antiaircraft missile armament – 1 x 4 launcher of 3M47
Gibka with
Igla (
Igla-S) surface-to-air missiles
