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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.
Internationally, the ship was classified as a small corvette, while in Poland it was referred to as a missile ship. It was powered by two gas turbines with a maximum horsepower of 12,000 HP, allowing it to reach speeds of over 43 knots. Rolnik's primary armament was for ship-to-ship combat, and its primary weapon was the P-21/P-22 anti-ship ...
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Tarantul-class corvette; H. German corvette Hiddensee; I. Ivanovets; R. ORP Rolnik This page was last edited on 29 August 2021, at 05:28 (UTC). Text is available ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...