Steregushchy class corvette

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Designated Project 2038.0 (or 20380) by the Russian Government. This is the newest corvette of the Russian Navy.

[edit] Programme

The ships are being built by Severnaya Verf shipyard in St.Petersburg

Steregushchy (Watchful) - Lead ship, scheduled to be delivered in the winter of 2007.
Boikiy (Sharp (intelligent))- second ship in the series, almost completed.
Soobrazitelniy(Smart (intelligent)) - third ship, under construction.

In total, the Russian Navy have publicly announced that they expect to buy at least 20 of these ships.

However, only one has been launched and three more laid down since the programme started. Given the evidence of long delays explained in Kommersant - - here, and the stunted state of Russian shipbuilding since the fall of the Soviet Union, it seems unlikely that anything like twenty vessels will ever enter service.

[edit] General characteristics

from Warfare.ru

Displacement: 1900 tons
Length: 93.9m
Beam: 13 m
Draft: 9.4 m
Machinery: 2 shaft CODOG, 2 gas turbines 10,000 kw, 2 diesels 3650 kw
Speed: 26-27 knots
Range: 4000 nm at 14 knots, 15 days endurance
Armament:
- 1 x 100mm gun
- 2 Kashtan SAM/gun CIWS
- 8 SS-N-26 Yakhont SSM
- 4 400mm torpedo tubes
- helipad for Ka-27 Helicopter
Crew:117