Pauk-class corvette
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 Bulgarian Navy Pauk-class corvette Bodri
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Pauk class |
| Builders | Vostochnaya Verf |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Poti class |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Anti-submarine corvette |
| Displacement | 500 long tons (508 t) standard, 580 long tons (589 t) full load |
| Length | 57 m (187 ft) |
| Beam | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft M504 diesels, 20,000 shp (14,914 kW) |
| Speed | 28–34 knots (51.9 km/h/32.2 mph – 63 km/h/39.1 mph) |
| Range | 1,650 nautical miles (3,056 km; 1,899 mi) at 14 kn (25.9 km/h; 16.1 mph) |
| Complement | 40 |
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The Pauk class is the NATO reporting name for a class of small patrol corvettes built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1977 and 1989. The Russian designation is Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. These ships are designed for coastal patrol and inshore anti-submarine warfare. The design is the patrol version of the Tarantul class which is designated Project 1241.1, but is slightly longer and has diesel engines. The ships are fitted with a dipping sonar which is also used in Soviet helicopters.
Ships
[edit]29 ships were built for the Soviets, of which one (Sokol) remain in service with the Russian Coast Guard as of 2022. Kuban was scrapped in Crimea in March 2021 https://fleetphoto.ru/vessel/43073/[1]
Export
[edit]Two ships transferred in 1989/90 - Bodri (Brisk) and Reshitelni (Decisive)
One ship in service.
Four ships transferred in the late 1980s and are known as the Abhay class. A plan to license-produce more units in India was abandoned in favor of the indigenous Kamorta class. Ships named:
- INS Abhay (Fearless)
- INS Ajay (Unconquerable)
- INS Akshay (Indestructible)
- INS Agray (Aggressive)
Abhay is the currently the only ship of the class that is still in service as of 2024 .[2]
Two ships transferred, U207 Uzhhorod (now decommissioned) and U208 Khmelnytskyi (taken over Russia).
Three ships are in service with the Ukrainian Sea Guard.
- BG-50 Hryhoriy Kuropyatnykov - in active service
- BG-51 Poltava
- BG-52 Hryhoriy Hnatenko
Both Poltava and Hryhoriy Hnatenko were ready to be decommissioned and were left in Balaklava after the Russian annexation of Crimea;[3] their fate is unknown
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Small Anti-Submarine Ships - Project 12412".
- ^ "INS Ajay Decommissioned".
- ^ "Воєнно-історичний форум Military Ukraine • Перегляд теми - Морська охорона ДПСУ". forum.milua.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
- "P Project 1241.2 Molniya-2 Pauk class". Federation of American Scientists. 7 September 2000. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
External links
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- (in English) All Pauk Class Corvettes - Complete Ship List