VLADIVOSTOK. Nov 26 (Interfax) - Russia's newly-built Gromky corvette, which is supposed to join the Pacific Fleet soon, for the first time fired an Uran cruise missile upon a target based in the Sea of Japan in line with a program of factory sea trials and state trials.
"The cruise missile successfully destroyed a drifting surface target at a distance of 40 kilometers from the warship in due time," the Pacific Fleet press service reported on Monday.
Up to ten warships and support vessels plus a number of naval aircraft of the Pacific Fleet were engaged in the exercise.
It had been reported earlier that the Gromky had been delivered to Vladivostok from the Amur Shipbuilding Plant at the end of August to undergo the final stage of the trials.
The Gromky is the second Project 20380 corvette built under a rearmament program specifically for Russia's Pacific Fleet.
The corvette is 104.5 meters long and 13 meters wide; its full displacement is 2,200 tonnes, and it can move at a speed of up to 27 knots.