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In the late 1970s, the Soviets realised the need for a larger, more seaworthy craft with better gun armament and higher positioned air search radars.In the Tarantul class, both the single 76 mm (3.0 in) main gun and the two 30 mm (1.2 in) Gatling-type guns are used for air defence, together with a comprehensive electronic warfare suite.
Ivanovets, formerly R-334, was a Tarantul-class corvette of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy. She was laid down on 4 January 1988 at Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard and launched a year later on 28 July 1989. The corvette was accepted into the Black Sea fleet on 30 December 1989. [1] [2] In August 2013, Ivanovets underwent major repairs in drydock.
The success of the Osa-class missile boats caused the Soviet Union to begin looking for a successor class to replace the aging ships. Development of the Tarantul I-class corvettes began in 1965, with an assumption that the new ships would be 400-500 tons and carry a new missile system.
Next generation corvette; Next Generation Missile Vessels; P. Pauk-class corvette; INS Prahar (K98) T. Tarantul-class corvette
Missile Boat Tarantul-class: Molniya: 488 1241PE 12411RZ Molniya-M: 12412 Submarine chaser Pauk-class: Molniya 2: 475 12412P 1242 12421 Corvette Tarantul-class Molniya: 1248 1248 River Gunboat Vosh-class: Moskit: 213.7 12481 Vosh-class without minelaying rails 1249 Patrol Boat Pyavka-class: 1258 Minesweeper Yevgenya-class: 1259 Minesweeper Olya ...
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The successor project [by whom?] was the Project 1241 Tarantul class corvette, [when?] with twice the displacement and a higher cost, but still initially armed with only four P-15s. They finally had a better electronic suite and a 76 mm gun with high rate of fire, along with newer P-270 Moskit and Kh-35 supersonic missiles, AK-630 CIWS, and ...
Andriy Ryzhenko, a captain in the Ukrainian naval reserve, also said he believed the vessel struck by the missile was one belonging to the Karakurt Project 22800 – a new class of Russian ...