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A Tarantul-class corvette of Vietnam People's Navy Project 1242.1 and project 1241.8 Molniya ("Lightning") are further developments of the Tarantul family of ships. The two projects has been modified and rearmed with modern missile systems like the Uran-E and are more capable ships than the Tarantul types.
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.
On 1 February 2024, several MAGURA V5 drones struck and sank the Tarantul-III class missile corvette Ivanovets in the Black Sea near Lake Donuzlav in Crimea. [8] On 14 February 2024, several MAGURA V5 drones were used to attack and sink the large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov near Alupka in Russian-occupied Crimea. [9]
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.
Tarantul-class corvettes (1 C, 4 P) ... Steregushchiy-class corvette; T. Tarantul-class corvette This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 21:25 ...
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