Posted on 10/31/2016 7:39:00 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The Russian Navy held the keel laying ceremony for the first Project 20386 Corvette "Derzky" on 28 October 2016 at Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) shipyard in Saint Petersburg. This new corvette class was designed by Almaz. According to the shipyard, Project 20386 is a multipurpose vessels designed to patrol the EEZ and conduct missions against air, surface and underwater targets, protect sea lanes and control maritime economic activity.
Project 20386 Corvette Derzky Russia 1Artist impression of the new Project 20386 Corvette for the Russian Navy
The Project 20386 is fundamentally a new design concept for the Russian Navy: It features a balanced composition of weapons, integrated information management system, open architecture, new radar and robotic systems and a reduced crew complement. Similar to the U.S. Navy littoral combat ships (LCS), the project is based on the principle of modularity: Equipment aboard the ship depends on the mission. There is a completly modular mission bay under the helicopter platform.
The corvette also shares size and displacement comparable to the LCS of the U.S Navy.
Project 20386 Corvette Derzky Russia 2The modular mission bay at the stern, somewhat similar to the U.S. Navy's LCS
Sensor suite includes the new multifunctional radar complex MF RFCs "Barrier" and sonar system "Minotaur ISPN-M" with towed array based on the CIM 335 EM-03. Main propulsion is a combined gas turbine unit with a partial electric drive composed of: two gas turbine engine M90FR by JSC Saturn with a capacity of 27,500 hp, two 2200 hp electric motor.
According to plans, the Russian Navy will receive the lead ship in 2021.The Russian Navy plans to procure at least 10 ships for now. As expected, the head of the order exceeds the value of 20 billion Rubles.
Basic tactical and technical characteristics:
Displacement - 3400 tons. Length - 109 meters.
Width - 13 meters.
Speed - 30 knots.
Cruising range - 5000 miles.
Crew - 80 sailors.
Armament (planned composition):
1x1 - 100mm universal gun mount type A-190.
2x6 - 30mm AK-630M-type machine.
2x8 - SAM type "Redoubt" vertical launchers.
2x4 - launchers "Uranus" RCC for complex "Kalibr-NK".
2x4 - torpedo launchers complex protection "Packet-NK".
hmmm so each of them will outarm our entire class
Delivered with the Russian New Ship Smell of Urine like the space station
Russians have not started a surface warship destroyer or larger since the Cold War, they have completed some hulls that were started then.
Unlike the LCS, they didn’t forget the missile launchers.
Gee, that design looks very familiar, hmmmm........
This "LCS-ski" is the latest in a long line of Russian copies of US platforms. Who can forget the IL-76 Candid, which was such a blatant forgery that it was called the C141-ski. There are countless other examples, but at least this time the Russians have copied one of our mistakes!
Russians will do it on the cheap, it will be 60% as good, and cost 1% as much.
At least it has some cruising radius, according to specs. Still, like our LCS types, it is not really anything that could stand up to a real combat environment without a lot of luck. The more “capabilities” you design into a naval vessel, the more design difficulties you encounter and the more compromises you must make. Long term habitability, ordnance storage, stability, reserve buoyancy all get compromised.
Cannot see where the 30mm CIWS guns are mounted.
Look closely atop the hangar!
Hard to say what is there. Regardless, that would block the complete forward sector. Would have put one on top the superstructure and one on the fantail, were me........
Still more capable than our Little Crappy Ship.
LCS - Leaks Continuously / Sinks
They better have plenty of time to swing about and unmask, if they like to do it that way.
Gee, I wonder how theirs looks so much like ours? /sarc. I swear, the industrial espionage machine has the drawings to our stuff sold before we even get through LRIP. Pisses me off to no end.
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