 The Buyan-M Corvette "Uglich" launches a 3M-54 Kalibr anti-ship missile during maneuvers in the Caspian Sea. |
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The Russian defense ministry has ordered a total of
nine Project 21631 (Buyan-M) corvettes for the navy, with at least six
vessels to be assigned to the Caspian Flotilla. The first two Buyan-M
corvettes, the Grad Sviyazhsk and the Uglich, entered service with the
flotilla earlier this year, Chirkov said.
The Zelenodolsk shipyard, based in Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, began construction of the sixth corvette in the series, the Vyshny Volochek, in August last year. A Buyan-M corvette has a displacement of 949 tons and a maximum speed of 25 knots. It is armed with Kalibr (SS-N-27) anti-ship missiles, 100-mm and 30-mm guns, as well as Igla-1M air defense missiles. |
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Video:
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The 3M-54 is a surface and submarine-launched anti-ship
missile developed by the Novator Design Bureau. The missile is a modular
system with five different variants: two anti-shipping types, one for
land attack, and two with an anti-submarine role. The Russian domestic
variant (3M-54) and export variants (3M-54E/3M-54TE) fly at sub-sonic
speeds while achieving supersonic speed as they near their target. They
are also believed to be able to perform very high angled defensive maneuvers
in contrast to the common linear flight path of other anti-ship cruise
missiles. To
learn more, watch our coverage of the system during IMDS 2013.
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Russian Navy Buyan-M corvette test fired 3M-54 Kalibr anti-ship missile
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