Ministry of Defense reported the start of construction of the 22800 project for the Pacific Fleet
At the Amur GCC, construction of the 22800 RTO project begins in the interests of the Pacific Fleet. Two RTOs will be laid in mid-June, two more by the end of the year. The construction will be carried out within the framework of the contract concluded by the 22 Ministry of Defense in August 2018 for the construction of six small rocket ships for the Pacific Fleet. The agreement provides for the construction of four IRCs at the Amur GCC and two more at the Eastern Shipyard in Vladivostok. The last MRK of the Amur series should be commissioned before 2026, the Vladivostok-to 2023.
RTOs, which will be built on the Amur GCC, have already received their names in honor of the Russian cities: Pavlovsk, Rzhev, Udomlya, and Ussuriysk.
Small rocket ships of the 22800 project (cipher "Karakurt") - the Russian series of multi-purpose rocket and artillery ships of the near-sea zone (small corvettes). They are designed to conduct combat operations in the near-sea zone and participate in the fulfillment of tasks in peacetime and wartime, independently and as part of ship groups.
Main characteristics: length - 67 meters, width - 11 meters, draft - 4 meters, displacement - about 800 tons, cruising range - up to 2500 miles, autonomy - 15 days. The main armament is one PU UKKS (universal ship complex) 3С14 RK Caliber, one 76-mm gun mount AK-176МA, two 30-mm gun guns AK-630М or CIRCED Armor-M, two 14.5-mm or 12,7-mm MTPU machine-gun installations.
The construction of the RTOs of this project is also being carried out at the Pella CVP and Zelenodolsk CVD. Terms of delivery of ships repeatedly shifted to the right due to problems with the supply of diesel engines MNNUMX production of the St. Petersburg factory "Zvezda".
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