Russia’s Pacific Fleet may get all-new corvettes in December

Russia’s new multi-purpose stealth corvette, the Rezky, may be handed over to the Pacific Fleet in December, a shipbuilding industry source has told TASS.

"The transfer of the Rezky corvette to the Pacific Fleet is now planned to take place in December 2022," he said.

TASS has been unable to confirm the information at the time of the publication officially.

The handover was postponed a few times in the past, with the second half of October being the latest deadline. She will be the fourth corvette of project 20380 in the Pacific fleet.

The fourth serial Project 20380 multirole corvette Rezky was laid down at the Amur Shipyard in 2016. The Rezky began its shipbuilder’s running trials in April.

Project 20380 corvettes are brown-water warships that fight submarines and warships and provide fire support to amphibious assaults. The total displacement is 2.2 thousand tons and the speed is 23 knots. The cruising range is four thousand miles. The corvettes are armed with Uran and Redut antiship and antiaircraft missiles, A-190 100 mm artillery gun, and AK-630 30 mm small-calibre air defence weapons. They also carry 324 mm Paket torpedo launchers, a helipad and a hangar.