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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.
Hiddensee, 1984 Tarantul-class missile corvette, Fall River, Massachusetts, US - Scrapped in 2023 due to severe hull deterioration. Imperial Marinheiro , 1955 Imperial Marinheiro -class corvette, Porto Velho, Brazil - Scrapped in 2023, after partially sinking at her moorings.
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.
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.
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 ...
The lead ship of the class was laid down on 28 October 2016 and is expected to enter service after 2020. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In February 2019, the technical readiness of the lead vessel reached 12%. [ 5 ] On 9 April 2019, Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu announced, the ship will be named Merkuriy ( Mercury ).
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