Russia Will Receive A New Directed Corvet In December: Able To Face Warships, Submarines And Amphibious Powering

The creation of the Russian Rezky stealth corvette. (Source: Military Leak)

JAKARTA - Russia's new multipurpose stealth corvette type warship, Rezky, may be handed over to the Pacific Fleet in December, according to a shipbuilding industry source.

"Rezky's transfer of corvette to the Pacific Fleet is now planned for December 2022," he said, launching TASS October 28.

TASS could not officially confirm the information at the time of publication.

The handover of this stealth corvette has been postponed several times before, with the second half of October being the last deadline.

This ship will be the fourth corvette of the 20380 project in the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet. The multirole Project 20380 fourth series of Rezky was built at the Amur Shipyard in 2016. Rezky started testing his shipbuilding in April.

The Korvet Project 20380 is a capable warship to confront submarines, warships and provide fire support for amphibious attacks.

This warship has a maximum speed of up to 23 knots, while its cruising range reaches four thousand miles.

For weaponry, this stealth corvette will be equipped with Uran and Redut anti-ship missiles, 100 mm A-190 artillery shells, and a small-caliber air defense weapon AK-630 30 mm.

In addition, this warship is also equipped with a 324 mm caliber torpedo launcher, helipad, and hangar.

It is known, there are a total of 14 corvettes planned in Project 20380 for the Russian Navy. Eight of them are already on duty, namely Steregushchiy (530), Soobrazitelny (531), Boikiy (532), Sovershennyy (533), Stoikiy (545), Gromkiy (335), Mercury (535) and Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov (339).