OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2011. St. Petersburg-based Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) will deliver today, October 14, to the Russian Ministry of Defense the Soobrazitelny, the first serial stealth corvette of Project 20380, the shipbuilding firm said Friday.

Today, the official Russian Navy flag hoisting ceremony will be held onboard the ship. "The delivery of the Soobrazitenly is completed in strict accordance with the schedule approved by the Customer - the Ministry of Defense," the shipyard General Director Andrei Fomichev said.

The Project 20380 corvette designed by Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau is a totally new ship for the Russian Navy for its superior performance characteristics and properties similar to those of her class destroyers. The corvette features advanced stealthy technologies, multifunction properties, flexibility, compact size, high level of automation and systems integration.

The project has a significant potential for modernization, the shipyard’s report says. The littoral corvette is designed to destroy enemy surface ships, submarines, aircraft and to provide artillery support for the marines’ landings.

The warship’s main characteristics:
Displacement - about 2,000 tons;
LOA - 105 m;
LWL - 90 m;
Max Speed - 27 knots;
Cruising range - 4,000 nautical miles at 14 knots;
Endurance – 15 days
Crew – 100 (including helicopter maintenance crew) - 100.

The ship is powered by four 16D49 diesel engines of total capacity of 23,320 hp.

The ship is armed with Uran antiship missile system, Kashtan antiaircraft missile / gun system, 100-mm multipurpose gun system AU A-190, 30-mm automatic gun mounts AK-630M and 330-m Paket anti-torpedo defense. The warship carries onboard a KA-27 Helix ASW helicopter.

Currently, Severnaya Verf is building another two corvettes of Project 20380 (Boyky, Stoyky), two frigates of Project 22350, a corvette of Project 20385 and a vessel of communications of Project 18280 for the Russian Navy. According to “State Armament Program until 2020”, the shipyard is to deliver to the Customer, the Ministry of Defense six serial corvettes of Project 20380 and 20385 by 2018 and six frigates of Project 22350 by 2020.

St. Petersburg’s JSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) is a leading shipbuilding company of the Russian defense industry. The firm has been part of Moscow-based United Industrial Corporation since 2004. The shipyard specializes in building cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, patrol vessels and antisubmarine, research and passenger vessels, timber cargo carriers, trawlers, container ships and ro-ro vessels for the Russian Defense Ministry and foreign customers.