Steregushchiy-class corvette explained

The Steregushchiy class (Russian: Стерегущий||Guarding), Russian designation Project 20380, is a class of corvettes being built for the Russian Navy. Designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau, subsequent vessels were built to an improved design (Project 20381), incorporating the Zaslon-Redut SAM system. The ship full displacement and dimensions are large for a corvette, thus it is designated as a frigate by NATO. The Steregushchiy class has been further developed into the (Project 20385) and Project 20386 subclasses. The export variant is known as Project 20382 Tigr.

History

The ships of the Steregushchiy class are multipurpose corvettes, designed to replace the . Such ships are used for littoral zone operations, engagement of enemy submarines and surface ships, and gun support of landing operations.[1] The first batch built at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg consists of four ships. A second building line has been started at Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The lead ship of this second batch was named .

The Russian Navy has publicly announced that they expect to buy at least 30 of these ships, for all four major fleets.[2]

According to Jane's Naval Forces News, the first vessel was commissioned on 14 November 2007.[3]

An additional order of eight corvettes of the project 20380 (and an additional two of the project 20385) was made in August 2020. Some of the ships may reportedly be built at the Amur Shipyard as destined for the Pacific Fleet, while others could be built at Severnaya Verf.[4] [5] [6] As of November 2020, the allocation between shipyards for the ten new vessels had still to be decided.[7] In December it was announced that the Amur Shipyard would build six new corvettes (two Project 20380 and four Project 20385) for the Pacific Fleet with projected service entry between 2024 and 2028. Construction was to begin in 2021.[8]

Design

The Steregushchiy-class corvettes have a steel hull and composite material superstructure, with a bulbous bow and nine watertight subdivisions. They have a combined bridge and command centre, and space and weight provision for eight SS-N-25 missiles. Stealth technology was widely used during construction of the ships, as well as 21 patents and 14 new computer programs. Newest physical field reduction solutions were applied too. As a result, designers considerably reduced the ship's radar signature thanks to hull architecture and fire-resistant radar-absorbent fiberglass applied in tophamper's design.[1]

The Kashtan CIWS on the first ship was replaced in subsequent vessels by twelve Redut VLS cells containing[9] 9M96E medium-range SAMs of the S-400 system. SS-N-27 (Kalibr type missiles) will be fitted to a larger domestic version, Project 20385. For the anti-submarine warfare the ships are equipped with two 4-tube launchers of the Paket-NK ASW system.[10]

The export version known as Project 20382 Tigr carries either eight supersonic SS-N-26 (P-800 Oniks) anti-ship missiles or sixteen subsonic SS-N-25 'Switchblade' (Kh-35E Uran). It also carries two twin-tube launchers for 533 mm heavy torpedoes instead of Paket-NK on the domestic version. The A-190E 100 mm gun first used in the s is controlled by a 5P-10E system that can track four targets simultaneously. Protection from air attacks is provided by the Kashtan CIWS and eight mounts for the SA-N-10 'Grouse' (9K38 Igla) SAM.

Starting from Aldar Tsydenzhapov, newly built ships of the class received an upgraded sensor mast containing the Zaslon radar system that was first installed on the Project 20385 corvette Gremyashchiy.[11]

Export

In 2007 the Indonesian Navy made an agreement in principle (pending a full contract) for four vessels of this type to replace their ageing Dutch-built corvettes. The first was to be built in Spain and fitted out in St. Petersburg, leaving open the option of Indonesian involvement in building the subsequent ships. This agreement appears to have lapsed; in 2011 Indonesia signed a deal for two Ada-class corvettes from Turkey. Rosoboronexport have briefed Singapore and the United Arab Emirates on the vessel.[12]

The first actual contract for the export version, Project 20382 Tigr, was signed at the 5th International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg in July 2011 when Algeria ordered two ships.[13] The cost was estimated at US$120–150 million per ship.[14] One was to be delivered to the Algerian Navy in 2014 and one in 2015,[15] but over five years later, the IISS Military Balance 2020 did not list any such vessels in service with the Algerian Navy (IISS MB 2020, p. 341).

Operational history

2017

On 14 October 2017, Soobrazitelny, Boikiy and tanker Kola embarked a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The ships returned to their homeport on 14 January 2018 and were greeted by the commander of the Baltic Fleet Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Nosatov.[20]

2020

The first six corvettes participated in a large-scale exercise of the Russian Navy in March–April 2020. The exercise has been suggested to be an answer to the largest NATO post-Cold War simulation of amphibious landing in Europe Defender 2020.[21]

The Russian exercise started with corvette Stoikiy and tank landing ship (LST) Korolyov being deployed to the North Sea in early March.[22] In mid and late March, the three remaining corvettes saw deployments as well. Boikiy was active in the southern North Sea, together with LSTs Minsk and Kaliningrad, while Steregushchiy and Soobrazitelnyy were active in the central North Sea. Auxiliary ships present included the tug Nikolay Chiker, tankers Kola and Akademik Pashin,[23] as well as special-purpose ship Yantar.[24] Adding the Yaroslav Mudry's deployment to the Indian Ocean, this means that all active major surface combatants of the Baltic Fleet were active at the same time, which was an unprecedented event at the time and can be roughly compared only with the Ocean Shield 2019 exercise, where two LSTs, three corvettes and a frigate were active in the Baltic Sea.[25] At the same time, however, frigates Admiral Grigorovich, Admiral Essen[26] and Admiral Makarov of the Black Sea Fleet were also active.[27] On 26 March, the combined Russian force with two Black Sea Fleet frigates, three corvettes and two LSTs of the Baltic Fleet was tracked by a nine-ship strong Royal Navy squadron.[28]

At the Pacific Fleet, Sovershennyy and Gromkiy[29] held an exercise along with cruiser Varyag, destroyers Bystryy, Admiral Tributs, Admiral Panteleyev, tracking ship Marshal Krylov and icebreakers Sadko, Ivan Susanin, as well as civilian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov[30] in the Sea of Japan. Another exercise was held in the Bering Sea by corvettes MPK-82, MPK-107, Ust-Ilimsk, Kholmsk, Moroz, Razliv, Iney, Smerch and two minesweepers.[31] [32]

The second stage of the exercise started on 8 April, when Steregushchiy, Soobrazitelnyy and Stoikiy were again deployed to the Baltic Sea.[33] A day earlier, frigate Admiral Kasatonov, submarine Sankt Peterburg and tug Pamir of the Northern Fleet were reported to be in the Norwegian Sea on their way to the Baltic Sea as well.[34] [35]

The intense period of exercises continued in mid April. At the Pacific Fleet they involved one LST and six anti-ship corvettes.[36] At the Northern Fleet they included two anti-ship,[37] three anti-submarine corvettes[38] and supposedly six nuclear submarines.[39] The Baltic Fleet held three more exercises involving two LSTs,[40] six anti-ship corvettes,[41] two anti-submarine corvettes[42] as well as other ships. Boikiy was deployed to the English Channel with tanker Akademik Pashin on 30 April.[43]

In November–December 2020, corvettes Steregushchiy, Boikiy and tanker Kola took part in an unusually intensive Russian naval activity in the North Sea and areas near the United Kingdom.[44] [45] The deployments could have been an answer to the sailing of US, British and Norwegian warships to the Barents Sea for the first time after the Cold War earlier in 2020.[46] Destroyer Severomorsk, accompanied by the tanker Sergey Osipov had been active in the area, as well and shortly afterwards destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, accompanied by the tanker Akademik Pashin and intelligence ship Viktor Leonov.[47] [48] Vice-Admiral Kulakov, unusually, sailed west of the United Kingdom, in the area where the Russian Navy hasn't been known to be active since 2009[49] (in 2012 there was a friendly port call of Vice-Admiral Kulakov to Cork[50]). Russian ships in the area included also submarine Staryy Oskol, tug Kapitan Guryev and patrol ship Vasily Bykov.[51]

2021

During the February–March exercises of the Baltic Fleet, Boikiy, Soobrazitelnyy and Steregushchy[52] were active in the Baltic Sea, along with frigate Yaroslav Mudry,[53] anti-ship corvettes Mytishchy, Sovetsk, Odintsovo,[54] Zelenyy Dol, Serpukhov, Morshansk, Zarechnyy,[55] Passat, anti-submarine corvettes Aleksin and Kabardino-Balkariya,[56] LSTs Minsk and Korolyov, tanker Aleksandr Grebenshchikov, tug Anatoly Ptytsyn, research vessel Sibiryakov, minesweepers and other ships. The crews of the warships conducted artillery fires against targets simulating enemy warships and air attack weapons.[57] [58] [59] On 18 February, conventional submarine Rostov-na-Donu and escort tug Nikolay Muru transited the area towards the Mediterranean Sea, as well.[60] Finally, an amphibious landing exercise has been held with landing craft Michman Lermontov, Leytenant Rimskiy Korsakov, D-325,[61] Mordoviya[62] and others.[63]

2022

Jan 2022 The Russian Baltic Fleet's task force made up of corvettes and departed from the naval base of Baltiysk for a long-distance deployment[64] As part of the long distance deployment the two corvettes carried out Naval excerises in the Atlantic outside of the Irish EEZ along with other ships and then visited Algeria.[65]

Feb 2022 Corvettes,, of the Pacific fleet and 18 other combat ships and supply vessels including Project 20385 corvette, Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate, Admiral Panteleyev large anti-submarine ship and Marshal Krylov command ship carried out naval exercises at training grounds in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. [66]

From 21 to 27 December 2022, Project 20380 corvettes, along with Russian destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov and Pacific Fleet flagship Russian cruiser Varyag (1983) carried out joint drills in the East China Sea with the Chinese Navy.[67]

Ships

Italics indicate estimates

NameHull No.BuildersLaid downLaunchedCommissionedFleetStatus
530Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg21 December 200116 May 200628 February 2008BalticReported in modernization and upgrade refit[68]
531Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg20 May 200331 March 201014 October 2011[69] [70] BalticActive
532Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg27 July 200515 April 201116 May 2013BalticActive
333Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur30 June 200622 May 201520 July 2017[71] PacificActive
545Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg10 November 200630 May 2012[72] 18 July 2014[73] BalticActive
335Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur17 February 2012[74] 28 July 2017[75] 25 December 2018[76] PacificActive
Merkury535Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg20 February 2015[77] 12 March 2020[78] 13 May 2023[79] Black SeaActive; deployed in the Mediterranean as of October 2023[80]
Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg20 February 2015[81] 2023?[82] [83] Black Sea[84] Under construction
339Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur22 July 2015[85] 12 September 2019[86] 25 December 2020[87] PacificActive
343[88] Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur1 July 2016[89] [90] 1 July 2021[91] 14 September 2023[92] PacificActive
Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur[93] 23 August 2021[94] [95] [96] [97] 2026PacificUnder construction
Amur Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur29 September 20212026PacificUnder construction[98]

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Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Corvette Boikiy built for Russian Navy to be launched in April . Rusnavy.com . 18 February 2011 . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141229235825/http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=11526 . 29 December 2014 . dead.
  3. Web site: Russia commissions first Project 20380 corvette . Richard . Scott . 20 November 2007 . IHS Jane's 360 . 14 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081229075530/http://www.janes.com/news/defence/naval/jdw/jdw071120_1_n.shtml . 29 December 2008 . dead.
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  5. News: Минфин и "Роскосмос" вступили в публичные препирательства о сокращении расходов . The Ministry of Finance and "Roscosmos" entered into a public altercation about cutting costs . Alexey . Nikolsky . 26 August 2020 . . ru.
  6. Web site: Analysis: Latest Russian Navy contracts offer development conclusions . 16 September 2020 . Navy Recognition.
  7. Web site: Russia resumes construction of project 20380, 20385 corvettes . 9 November 2020 . Navy Recognition.
  8. Web site: Shipbuilders to launch construction of latest corvettes for Russian Navy in 2021 . 16 December 2020 . TASS.
  9. Web site: Corvette Boikiy was launched in St. Petersburg . 19 April 2011 . Rusnavy.com . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141230000045/http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=12053 . 30 December 2014 . dead.
  10. Web site: Antitorpedo is only for the Russian Navy . 26 July 2015. Ria.ru .
  11. Web site: 2021-10-06 . Минобороны модернизирует корветы проекта 20380 . Defense Ministry modernizes Project 20380 corvettes . 2023-08-02 . Izvestiya . ru.
  12. Web site: Russian Navy Renews Surface Fleet - Little Red Corvette . 20 August 2007 . Maxim . Pyadushkin . . 10 November 2011.
  13. Web site: http://flotprom.ru/news/?ELEMENT_ID=80443 . ru:ОСК построит для Алжира два корвета проекта "Тигр" . USC to build two corvettes of the Tiger project for Algeria . Flotprom.ru . ru . 1 July 2011 . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141230004809/http://flotprom.ru/news/?ELEMENT_ID=80443 . 30 December 2014 . live.
  14. Web site: L'Algérie achète deux corvettes à la Russie . Algeria buys two corvettes from Russia . Hakim . Arous . fr . Tout sur l'Algérie . 2011-06-30 . 2011-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324032825/http://www.tsa-algerie.com/divers/l-algerie-achete-deux-corvettes-a-la-russie_16331.html . 24 March 2012.
  15. Web site: Algeria Prepares To Receive LPD Amid Defense Spending Boost . https://archive.today/20140203174834/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140131/DEFREG04/301310036/Algeria-Prepares-Receive-LPD-Amid-Defense-Spending-Boost . dead . 3 February 2014 . Kington . Tom . Defense News . 31 January 2014 . 29 December 2014.
  16. Web site: Corvette Soobrazitelnyy is ready to meet the crew . Rusnavy.com . 19 October 2010 . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141229235747/http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=10554 . 29 December 2014 . dead.
  17. Web site: http://www.topspb.tv/news/news49461/ . ru:Корвет «Стойкий» вошел в состав Балтийского флота . Corvette "Stoyky" entered the Baltic Fleet . Topspb.tv . ru . 27 July 2014 . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141104172658/http://www.topspb.tv/news/news49461/ . 4 November 2014 . live.
  18. Web site: Newly-built corvette Aldar Tsydenzhapov joins Russia's Pacific Fleet . 25 December 2020 . TASS.
  19. https://flot.com/2023/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%8263/
  20. News: Отряд кораблей Балтфлота вернулся на базу после дальнего похода . A detachment of Baltic Fleet ships returned to base after a long campaign . . ru . 14 January 2018 . 18 February 2021.
  21. Web site: Крепкая Балтика . Strong Baltic . 2020-04-04 . bmpd . ru . 2020-04-05.
  22. Web site: Корвет "Стойкий" и БДК "Королев" вернулись из похода в Атлантику . Corvette "Stoyky" and large landing craft "Korolev" returned from a cruise to the Atlantic . 16 March 2020 . Центральный Военно-Морской Портал . ru . 2020-03-22.
  23. Web site: AKADEMIK PASHIN, Oil Products Tanker - Details and current position . VesselFinder.com . 2020-04-01.
  24. Web site: Маневры в Северном море провела корабельная группа Балтийского флота . Maneuvers in the North Sea were carried out by the ships of the Baltic Fleet . 21 March 2020 . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-03-22.
  25. News: Видео: корабли Балтфлота вышли на учения "Океанский щит" . Video: Ships of the Baltic Fleet on the exercise "Ocean Shield" . 5 August 2019 . . ru . 2020-03-22.
  26. Web site: Russian Black Sea Fleet frigates repel enemy missile strike in Mediterranean drills . 27 March 2020 . TASS . 2020-04-01.
  27. Web site: Russia conducts a special operation in the Atlantic against US Navy and France . Boyko . Nikolov . 2020-03-17 . Bulgarian Military.com . 2020-03-22.
  28. Web site: ВМС Британии следили за отрядом российских кораблей . British Navy followed a detachment of Russian ships . 26 March 2020 . Korabel.ru . ru.
  29. Web site: Отряд кораблей Тихоокеанского флота вышел из Владивостока в дальний поход . A detachment of ships from the Pacific Fleet leave Vladivostok on a long voyage . 2020-04-01 . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-04-01.
  30. Web site: Группа ледоколов осуществила проводку отрядов кораблей ТОФ через ледовые поля в районе пролива Лаперуза . A group of icebreakers escorted detachments of Pacific Fleet ships through ice fields in the La Perouse Strait area . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-04-01.
  31. Web site: Сбор-поход Приморской ФлРС . 2020-03-27 . Navy Korabel . 2020-03-28.
  32. Web site: Три корабельные тактические группы Тихоокеанского флота отрабатывают задачи в дальней морской зоне . Three naval tactical groups of the Pacific Fleet practice tasks in the far sea zone . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-03-28.
  33. Web site: Russian Baltic Fleet corvettes eliminate enemy aircraft and warships in drills . 8 April 2020 . TASS . 2020-04-08.
  34. Web site: Russian Navy latest frigate transits Norwegian Sea after state trials . 7 April 2020 . TASS . 2020-04-08.
  35. Web site: Головная подлодка типа "Лада" отправилась на модернизацию . The lead submarine of the "Lada" class went for modernization . 7 April 2020 . ФлотПром . ru . 2020-04-08.
  36. Web site: Russian missile boats eliminate enemy naval force in Pacific drills . 17 April 2020 . TASS . 2020-04-17.
  37. Web site: Russian Northern Fleet warships hold artillery drills in stormy Barents Sea . 2020-04-17 . TASS . 2020-04-17.
  38. Web site: Малые противолодочные корабли Северного флота проведут учение по поиску подводной лодки . Small anti-submarine ships of the Northern Fleet will conduct an exercise to find a submarine . 2020-04-21 . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-04-22.
  39. News: The new Cold War: British forces scramble to track down Moscow's killer super-sub . Giannangeli . Marco . 2020-04-19 . . 2020-04-22.
  40. Web site: Десантные корабли Балтийского флота отразили налет авиации условного противника . Landing ships of the Baltic Fleet repelled a simulated enemy air raid . 2020-04-21 . Korabel.ru . ru . 2020-04-22.
  41. Web site: Russian Baltic Fleet ships eliminate enemy air targets in drills . 2020-04-22 . TASS . 2020-04-22.
  42. Web site: Russian Baltic Fleet ships eliminate enemy submarine during drills . 2020-04-22 . TASS . 2020-04-22.
  43. Web site: Royal Navy shadows Russian warship through the English Channel . 30 April 2020 . Royal Navy . 2020-05-02.
  44. Web site: Корветы "Бойкий" и "Стерегущий" вернулись в базу Балтийского флота . Corvettes "Boykiy" and "Steregushchiy" return to the base of the Baltic Fleet . 10 December 2020 . topspb.tv . ru . 18 February 2021.
  45. Web site: Корвет "Бойкий" Балтийского флота пополнил запасы топлива и воды в море . Corvette "Boikiy" of the Baltic Fleet replenishes fuel and water supplies at sea . 24 November 2020 . 18 February 2021 . Ministry of Defense of Russia.
  46. Web site: U.S. Sixth Fleet enters the Barents Sea with missile defense destroyer . 4 May 2020 . 18 February 2021 . The Barents Observer.
  47. Web site: Russian warship operating in Moray Firth . UK Defence Journal . 5 November 2020 . 18 February 2021.
  48. Web site: Royal Navy monitors four Russian ships in Moray Firth . Lucinda . Cameron . Yahoo! News UK . 20 November 2020 . 18 February 2021.
  49. News: Major oil spill from tanker heads towards British Isles . . 18 February 2009 . 18 February 2021.
  50. Web site: Russian Naval Vessel Makes Courtesy Call to Cork . Naval Today.com . 31 August 2012 . 24 March 2021.
  51. Web site: Royal Navy monitored Russian ships around UK waters . Naval-Technology.com . 7 December 2020 . 18 February 2021.
  52. Web site: Корабли Балтийского флота провели стрельбы в морских полигонах . Ships of the Baltic Fleet fired at sea ranges . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 26 March 2021 . 30 March 2021 . ru.
  53. Web site: Сторожевой корабль Балтийского флота "Ярослав Мудрый" провел артиллерийские стрельбы в море . The patrol ship of the Baltic Fleet "Yaroslav Mudryy" conducted artillery fire at sea . 13 March 2021 . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 16 March 2021 . ru.
  54. Web site: Ракетные корабли Балтийского флота уничтожили условные береговые и морские цели крылатыми ракетами "Калибр" . Missile ships of the Baltic Fleet destroyed conventional coastal and sea targets with Kalibr cruise missiles . 12 March 2021 . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 16 March 2021 . ru.
  55. Web site: Ракетные катера Балтийского флота провели комплекс артиллерийских стрельб . Missile boats of the Baltic Fleet conducted an artillery fire exercise . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 9 March 2021 . 10 March 2021 . ru.
  56. Web site: Корабли Балтийского флота отработали задачи по уничтожению подводной лодки условного противника . The ships of the Baltic Fleet completed the tasks of destroying a simulated enemy submarine . 17 March 2021 . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 20 March 2021.
  57. Web site: Ships of the Baltic Fleet complete tactical missions in the Baltic Sea . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 16 February 2021 . 18 February 2021.
  58. Web site: Экипажи кораблей БФ выполнили стрельбы в морских полигонах флота . The crews of Baltic Fleet ships fired at the naval ranges of the fleet . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 19 February 2021 . 24 February 2021.
  59. Web site: Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 07/2021 . Russian Fleet Analysis.blogspot.com . 21 February 2021 . 24 February 2021.
  60. Web site: Прошедшая ремонт "Варшавянка" вернулась в Средиземное море . Repaired "Varshavyanka" returns to the Mediterranean Sea . flot.com . 9 March 2021 . 10 March 2021.
  61. Web site: На Балтийском флоте состоялось учение по переброске боевой техники на десантных катерах . An exercise transferring military equipment on landing boats was held in the Baltic Fleet . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 24 February 2021 . 10 March 2021.
  62. Web site: Малый десантный корабль "Мордовия" Балтийского флота выполнил минные постановки в морском полигоне . Small landing ship "Mordovia" of the Baltic Fleet carried out mine laying in the sea range . 16 March 2021 . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 16 March 2021 . ru.
  63. Web site: В главной базе Балтийского флота прошли учения дивизиона быстроходных десантных катеров . The main base of the Baltic Fleet held exercises for the division of high-speed landing boats . Ministry of Defense of Russia . 9 March 2021 . 10 March 2021 . ru.
  64. The Russian Baltic Fleet's task force made up of the Project 20380 corvettes Stoiky and Soobrazitelny departed from the naval base of Baltiysk for long-distance deployment
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  66. Web site: Some 20 Russian Pacific Fleet ships begin exercise in Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk .
  67. Web site: Russian, Chinese warships kick off Joint Sea 2022 naval maneuvers .
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  73. Web site: ВМФ принял "Стойкий" спустя почти два месяца . The Navy took over the "Stoikiy" after almost two months . flot.com . 2 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170802174648/http://flot.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=168501 . 2 August 2017 . live.
  74. Web site: На Амурском судостроительном заводе состоялась церемония начала строительства корвета "Громкий" . The ceremony of the beginning of construction of the corvette "Gromkiy" was held at the Amur shipyard . ru . Flotprom.ru . 17 February 2012 . 29 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141230004901/http://flotprom.ru/news/?ELEMENT_ID=105156 . 30 December 2014 . live.
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