KALININGRAD. Aug 5 (Interfax-AVN) - The crew of the newly built Boyky corvette of the Russian Baltic Fleet is preparing for departure to its permanent base, Baltiysk, under the supervision of Lieut. Capt. Alexei Suslov.
The preparations are practically complete, the Baltic Fleet press service reported. The crew will take aboard supplies and leave Kronstadt soon.
The corvette artillery will practice shooting at airborne and seaborne targets and the crew will practice narrow-channel shipping, survivability and air and anti-submarine defense in the K-2 tests to be taken during the voyage.
Baltic Fleet sailors take K-2 tests to prove their combat readiness. The test evaluates the preparedness of sailors and their ship for missions and solo operations under diverse operative and tactical circumstances.
The Boyky was transferred to the Russian Navy at the St. Petersburg Severnaya Verf shipyard in May 2013. The Baltic Fleet welcomed the new corvette into it.
The Boyky is the second mass product of Project 20380 with superior tactical, technical and combat characteristics in the corvette class. These are multirole, flexible, compact and stealthy ships with a high level of automation and integration of their systems. The corvettes have a significant potential for modernization.
The corvette of Project 20380 has a displacement of 2,200 tons, a speed of up to 27 knots, and a range of operation of 4,000 miles. The ships are armed with 100-millimeter universal artillery systems, air defense missile and artillery complexes, supersonic missiles and automatic artillery guns. A Kamov Ka-27PL helicopter is stationed aboard each corvette.