Steregushchy class corvette

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Class overview
Steregushchy class corvette
General characteristics
Type:	Project 2038.0
Displacement:	1900 tons
Length:	93.9 meters
Beam:	13 meters
Draught:	9.4 meters
Propulsion:	2 shaft CODAG, 2 Zorya - Mashproektgas M70 turbines 10,000 kw, 2 diesels 3650 kw, power supply AC 380/220V, 50 Hz, 4x630 kw diesel genset
Speed:	26-27 knots
Range:	4000 nm at 14 knots, 15 days endurance
Complement:	117
Sensors and processing systems:	Air search radar: Salyut Positiv-MAE radar Surface search radar: Granit Central Scientific Institute Garpun-B/3Ts-25E/PLANK SHAVE radar Fire control radar: Ametist 5P-10E Puma for A-190 HOT FLASH radar Sonar: Zarya-ME suite Navigation: GORIZONT-25 integrated navigation system
Electronic warfare and decoys:	TK-25E-5 ECM, PK-10 decoy
Armament:	1 x Arsenal A-190 100mm 2 x MTPU pedestal machine gun 14.5 mm 2 x Kashtan CIWS 6 x 3M54 Klub or 8 x 3M24 Uran 4 x 400mm torpedo tubes SS-N-29 / RPK-9 Medvedka-VE anti-submarine rockets
Aircraft carried:	Helipad for Ka-27 Helicopter
Notes:	Ships in class include: F-530 Steregushchy F-531 Soobrazitelniy F-532 Boikiy F-533 Stoikiy

The Steregushchy class corvette was designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design bureau and 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, commissioned on 14 November 2007.
Soobrazitelniy (Smart; intelligent) - second ship, under construction.
Boikiy (Quick)- third ship in the series, almost completed.
Stoikiy (Firm) - fourth ship, laid down 10.11.2006

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

However, only one has been launched and three more laid down since the programme started. Given the evidence of long delays explained in Kommersant^[1], and the stunted state of Russian shipbuilding since the fall of the Soviet Union, it is believed that the planned twenty vessels will never enter service. Indonesian navy have plan to acquired 4 of these corvettes as replacement of their old dutch-built fatahillah class corvette.

According to Jane's Naval Forces News, the first vessel was commissioned on 14 November 2007.^[2]