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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.
The Tarantul class and its variants are the most widely used corvettes. A corvette is a small warship.It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or "rated") warship.
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 Tarantul I-class missile corvette was launched in 1984 at the Petrovsky Shipyard of Almaz Shipbuilding Company in Leningrad, Russian SFSR.She was commissioned in 1985 by the East German Volksmarine as Rudolf Egelhofer, but after the reunification of Germany in 1990, she was transferred to the German Navy and renamed Hiddensee.
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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 ...