20380 Stereguschyy
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Active ships: 0
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Inactive ships / In construction ships
Table 1. Inactive/pending commission ships.
SHIP YARD COMMISSION FLEET
STOIKY #190 Severnaya Pending
Stereguschyy V. Keel laid down on Nov 10, 2006.
BOIKYY #190 Severnaya Pending
Stereguschyy III. Keel laid down on Jul 27, 2005.
SOOBRAZITEL'NYY #190 Severnaya Pending
Stereguschyy II. Keel laid down on May, 2003.
STEREGUSCHYY #190 Severnaya Pending
Stereguschyy I. Keel laid down on Dec 21, 2001. Planned 19+. Launched on May 16, 2006. Undergoing sea trials. Planned to enter NOR.
SOVERSHENNYY Amurskyy SSZ Pending
Stereguschyy IV. Keel laid down on Jun 30, 2006.
Length overall 93.9 m
Length at WL 84.6 m
Beam at deck 13.0 m
Depth at the fore 9.4 m
Depth amidships 7.8 m
Depth at transom 7.8 m
Full displacement ab.1900 t
Maximum speed 26-27 kn
Range at 14 kn cruise speed with full fuel stores 4000 nm
Endurance with maximum fresh water and provision stores 15 days
Crew, including helo team 90
PROPULSION SYSTEM
Twin shaft CODOG system, comprising:
......2x10,000 kW gasturbines
......2x3650 kW diesel engines
ELECTRIC SYSTEM
Basic power supply AC 380/220V, 50 Hz.
4x630 kw diesel gensets.
ARMAMENT
8xYAKHONT anti ship missiles in 2 vertical launchers
6xMEDVEDKA-VE anisubmarine missiles in one vertical launcher
A190 gun mount 100mm caliber
2xKASHTAN-M close-in AA missile-artillery system
2xMTPU pedstal mashine gun 14.5 mm caliber
SENSORS
Observation and target designation Radar system
Attack missile target designation Radar system
Artillery fire control Radar system
Two optronic fire control systems for AA close-in weapons
ECM Radar system
Chaff and decoy launcher system with four launchers
CO's electronic commamd console
Sonar system with hull mounted and towed arrays
Anti diver sonar system
NAVIGATION AIDS
Integrated navigated system, compring gyro, magnetic compass, echosounder, log, radio direction finder, satellite system. The details of navaids complement could be specified on Customer choice.
COMMUNICATION
The complement of communication system is provided under Customer specifications.
OTHER EQUIPMENT
Active roll motions damper
Helicopter, hangar, flight deck
Launching/retrieving device for a towed sonar
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Laid down: Dec 24, 2001
Planned: 19+
First Russian stealth technology ship: internal missile launchers, monoblock architecture build with composite materials, ESR decreased in 3 times etc.
Contractors: CCB Almaz (Design),
CNII Akademic Krylov,
Severnaya Verf' (St. Petersburg)
Alexander Mozgovoi · Military Parade staff correspondent
Indeed, the St. Petersburg-based Severnaya Verf shipyard had never seen so many eminent guests as on December 21 last year when the Steregushchy corvette (Project 20380) was laid down for the Russian Navy. The ceremony was attended by Mikhail Kasyanov, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; Ilya Klebanov, Deputy Prime Minister; Victor Cherkessov, Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the Northwest Federal District; Vladimir Yakovlev, Governor of St. Petersburg; Sergei Frank, Minister of Transport; Vladimir Pospelov, Director General of the Russian Shipbuilding Agency; Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy; and other officials.
The broad attendance of high-rank officials emphasized the significance of the event: the Russian Navy had not ordered large surface ships for years. «Today we begin the construction of a series of combat ships,» Mikhail Kasyanov announced at the meeting held to mark the laying-down of the corvette. «The Navy is one of the the state’s primary concerns,» he stressed. This idea was highlighted by all other speakers.
«The mechanism of implementing Russia’s Marine Doctrine is coming into operation,» said Boris Kuzyk, Director General of the New Projects and Concepts industrial holding company which comprises the Severnaya Verf shipyard. «The construction of Project 20380 corvettes is part of the plan to restore Russia’s naval power.»
Why are corvettes to give rise to the renewal of the surface ship fleet? In answer to this question Rear-Admiral Anatoly Shlemov, Head of the Shipbuilding Department of the Russian Navy, pointed out that according to Russia’s official classification Steregushchy is a «multipurpose patrol ship of the coastal waters.» The number of such ships in the Russian Navy has dramatically dropped in recent years while the demand for them is strong.
Frankly speaking, the Navy has no such ships left. Projects 1124 and 1331M small antisubmarine ships (Grisha and Parchim II according to NATO classification), as well as Project 1234 small missile ships (Nanuchka according to NATO classification) which ranked as corvettes abroad, were designed for a limited range of missions — antisubmarine and antiship, respectively. Only Project 50 patrol boats (Riga according to NATO classification) can be regarded as Steregushchy’s direct forerunners. These patrol boats built in the 1950s in a series of 68 units were truly multipurpose craft. With a total displacement of 1,200 tons and a cruising speed of 29 knots, these craft were fitted with three 100mm multipurpose gun mounts, two twin-barrel guns, torpedo tubes, depth charges, conventional and rocket-assisted bomb-throwers, and were able to carry up to 26 mines. (In China, patrol boats of this class built under the Soviet license were additionally equipped with the Hai Ying 2 antiship missiles.) Project 50 patrol boats were «workhorses» in the Soviet Navy as well as in the navies of Bulgaria, East Germany, China, Indonesia and Finland: participating in exercises they waged antisubmarine warfare, fought against surface ships of the potential enemy, provided fire support for landing forces, etc. By the early 1990s, Project 50 patrol ships had by far exceeded their service lives and become obsolete. Eventually they were discarded, but the Navy had no vessels to replace them.
Igor Ivanov is General Designer of Project 20380 corvette.
It does not mean though that the concept of Project 50 ships as multipurpose patrol boats of the coastal waters was abandoned: it fully meets the present-day requirements for corvette-class ships. And there is a lot of logic in this. In Britain, corvettes, having slow-speed whale-boats as their prototypes, were reborn during WWII exclusively as anti-submarine ships intended to protect convoys from German «wolf packs.» In Russia, the history of patrol boats goes back to torpedo-boats — high-speed ships equipped primarily with offensive weapons. It has not always been justified. Today, however, it is such ships — comparably inexpensive and universally armed — that are sought for. This can be easily explained by the western navies’ adherence to the concept of littoral war which implies that a country is prepared to wage active see warfare against another country in the latter’s littoral zone. The name of the American version of this trendy concept speaks for itself: «Forward... from Sea.» Obviously, Russia cannot ignore such plans of western strategists. So there are good grounds to believe that Project 20380 corvettes will become basic means of protection of Russia’s adjacent littoral waters.