Karakurt-class corvette
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Project 22800, codename Karakurt |
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| Operators: |
 Russian Navy
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| Preceded by: | Buyan-M class corvette |
| Subclasses: | Project 22800 |
| Cost: | approx. 2 billion rubles (2017) |
| Built: | 2015–present |
| In service: | 2017–present |
| Building: | 5 |
| Planned: | 18 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Corvette |
| Displacement: | 800 tons |
| Length: | 65 m (213 ft) |
| Beam: | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Draught: | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Draft: | 2 m (7 ft) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range: | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) |
| Endurance: | 15 days |
| Armament: | |
The Project 22800 corvettes, codenamed Karakurt (Russian: малые ракетные корабли проекта 22800, шифр «Каракурт») is a new missile corvette class under construction for the Russian Navy. The term каракурт, translit. karakurt literally means Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, the European black widow spider.
The new class is intended to be a more seaworthy, blue water complement to the Buyan-M class corvettes, which had been designed for the littoral zone and are currently serving in Russia's Caspian Flotilla and Black Sea Fleet. The first two ships were laid down on 24 December 2015, and as of July 2016, four are under construction. In August 2016, it was reported that a total of seven ships have been ordered from the Pella shipyard (at least one of which will be built at More in Crimea), and that five further ships of the class have been ordered from the Zelenodolsk shipyard. The first ship is to join the navy in 2018. On July 30 2017 the Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov announched that 6 additional corvettes will be orderd for the Russian Pacific Fleet in 2018.
The Karakurt-class corvettes are to be armed with the Kalibr-NK long range cruise missile and the P-800 Onyx medium-range anti-ship missile and have an endurance of 15 days.
Project 22800 was first publicly presented by Almaz in 2015. Project 22800 derives from Project 12300 Skorpion, a proposed 1990s Almaz design for a 500 ton displacement missile boat, and was also heavily influenced by Project 21631, the Buyan-M corvette. The Karakurts have a stealth shaped superstructure with an integrated mast carrying four phased array radar panels. The primary armament consists of Kalibr-NK cruise missiles or P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship missiles carried in eight UKSK vertical launching system cells in the rear part of the superstructure, behind the bridge. The corvettes built for the Russian Navy will be equipped with a 76.2 mm AK-176MA automatic dual-purpose gun, a modernized version of the AK-176. A proposed export version may carry the Italian OTO Melara 76 mm gun. For anti-missile defense, the first two ships will only carry a pair of AK-630M gun-based CIWS. Starting from the third ship, the Karakurts will be equipped with Pantsir-M, a navalized version of the Pantsir surface-to-air missile system. The Karakurts are not designed for anti-submarine warfare.
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