Third Project 20380 Steregushchy Class Corvette to Begin Russian State Trials

The Boyky, the third Project 20380 Steregushchy class corvette, is to begin state trials in March. The ship was build at the Severnaya Verf shipyard and designed by the Almaz naval design bureau to have a reduced radar and infrared signature.

The Boyky with pennant number 532 will join its two predecessors, the Steregushchy and Soobrazitelnyy, in the Baltic Fleet. All diesel powered ships have:

• a length of 104.5 m
• a beam of 11.6 m
• a displacement of 2100 tons
• a maximum speed of 27 kn 
• a hangar for Ka-27 helicopter
• one 100 mm Arsenal A-190 gun
• eight 3M24 / Kh-35 Uran (SS-N-25) anti-ship missiles 
• two AK-630M 6-barrel 30 mm gun

The first ship was equipped with a Kashtan/Kortik Close-In Weapon System, which was replaced by a 12 cell Redut Vertical Launch System (VLS) with 40 km range 9M96 surface-to-air missiles in subsequent vessels.

Two modified vessels of the class have been exported to Algeria with the designation Project 20382 Tigr. The Project 20380 served as a basis for an even more advanced and larger Project 20385 Gremyashchy class corvette.

The Project 20385 ships, of which the first has already been laid down, will come with an 8 cell UKSK VLS, which can fire the 3M54 Klub/Kalibr (SS-N-27) or 3M55 Oniks (SS-N-26) missiles and a 16 cell Redut VLS.


http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130204/179225148/Russias-New-Stealth-Corvette-to-Start-Trials-in-March.html

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Brazil Wants to Buy Russian Pantsir-S1 SPAAG and Igla-S MANPADS

According to Russian sources, General Jose Carlos De Nardi, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Brazilian Armed Forces, is to discuss the acquisition of 3 batteries of Pantsir-S1 / SA-22 Greyhound systems and 2 batteries of 9K338 Igla-S / SA-24 Grinch Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS).

The Igla-S is the latest version of the 9K38 Igla, weighs 19 kg with a 2.5 kg warhead and comes with a two-color infrared seeker to engage targets at a distance of up to 6 km.

The Pantsir-S1 is a combined gun-missile Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun (SPAAG) system from Russia's KBP Design Bureau and designed to succeed the Tunguska-M1 for short to medium range air defense.

The system is usually mounted on a 8 x 8 wheeled truck, but can be modified according to customer needs. A naval version also exists.

The Pantsir-S1 can detect targets at up to 36 km and normally comes with both a search and tracking radar. Targets can also be engaged through electro-optical means.

The Pantsir-S1 can engage targets at up to range of 20 km and an altitude of 15 km with 2 x 6 57E6 surface-to-air missiles guided by radio command. It can also engage targets at a maximum range of 4 km and a maximum altitude of 3 km with two dual 2A38M 30 mm guns.

The Pantsir-S1 has previously been exported to the United Arab Emirates, Algeria and Syria.


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