Project 22800: "Karakurt" class missile ship

Small missile ships “Okhotsk” and "Vikhr" (serial numbers 255 and 256) towed for completion at the Pella plant



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Russia’s Baltic Fleet to receive 4 ships with Kalibr missiles and Pantsir systems

The Pantsir-M close-in weapon systems will soon undergo testing on the Odintsovo corvette

MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. The Baltic Fleet will receive a batch of six Project 22800 missile corvettes, armed with the Kalibr cruise missiles; four of them will also be armed with the Pantsir-M close-in weapon systems, which will soon undergo testing on the Odintsovo corvette, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Yevmenov announced Monday.

"Soon, the surface part of the Baltic Fleet will be reinforced with a batch of six Project 22800 missile corvettes. Four of them will carry a naval version of the Pantsir system. Odintsovo will become the first one, the Pantsir system will undergo testing on this ship," the Commander’s congratulatory telegram to the sailors, dedicated to the Fleet’s 317th anniversary, says, according to the Fleet press service.

The Odintsovo corvette was initially laid down under Shkval name at the Saint Petersburg’s Pella shipyard on July 29, 2016; it was commissioned on May 5, 2018. The corvette is the first ship to be equipped with the naval version of the Pantsir system.

The Project 22800 corvettes are equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles, modern control, radio, navigation, electronic warfare systems, counter-diversion armaments, man-portable air-defense systems. The ships are designed to act either as part of naval groups or on their own.

https://tass.com/defense/1157495

Caspian fleet has enough ships. No big threats there to justify more of them. If they want more UKSK just put the container kalibr launchers on civilian ships.

All the other fleets needs more ships.

Container Kalibrs don't exist so can we please stop with fanboying already?

It exists but not deployed/bought.

Caspian Sea is perfect location for Byans, you hold entire Middle East/Central Asia in range from there

Once other fleets get new boats they should relocate several Buyans there (bring them back in other words)

Nato/Turley is a bigger concern for Russia. Middle east isn't Russia's problem and the Caspian neighbours are too weak to put in danger Russia.

They don't get that much new ships to allow relocating of Buyans and that's more true with the operation in Mediteranean that takes away half of the black sea fleet there constantly. That won't change for the next 15 years and conflicts like Syria will multiply recquiring more of the other fleet's ships.

Caspian sea isn't a priority for sure.

JohninMK wrote:

Isos wrote:

Caspian sea isn't a priority for sure.

Now that missiles are getting longer ranges the Caspian is a pretty good place to keep assets safely out of harms way. Much of what they would be tasked with in the Black Sea they could surely do from there?

The opposite is actually half true. If you need to send reinforcement in the Med you needs to send ships from the black sea. They also cover the middle east with kalibr but not as much as from the Caspian sea because they are not that close to each other.

The naval threat in the caspian doesn't exist. In the black sea it exists and a ship is not only kalibr missiles but also radar and gun.

"Odintsovo", built at the Pella shipyard for the Baltic Fleet, went to factory sea trials



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I doubt that it was the plan to send all ships to one fleet. The task of the small missile ships is not only to engage enemy ships, but to enhance the precision strike capabilities of a fleet. By putting all ships into one area, lets say the Black Sea, the pacific area or the arctic would gain nothing.

In the end there could be 18 MRK´s per fleet (Buyan-M´s + Karakurts). 30 are already ordered. There are 3 or even 4 yards building them. There are rumours that more Buyan-M´s will be ordered and we already seen a possible modernised, enlarged version of Karakurt. If all yards receive a new order of 6 ships each that would take the toll to 60 units. Not far from the numbers you need to equip the four fleets with 18 ships.

The Project 22800 (Karakurt-class) first small missile ship armed with the Pantsyr-M surface-to-air missile system entered state trials, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Monday.

https://tass.com/defense/1175183