Baku-APA. A new Project 21630 (Buyan-class) corvette has arrived at a naval base hosting Russia’s Caspian Flotillato boost the country’s maritime defenses in the region, a flotilla’s spokesman said, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
“The Makhachkala corvette has successfully passed state trials and will soon start performing its operational tasks in the Caspian Sea as part of the [Caspian] flotilla,” Alexey Rulev said Thursday.
The Makhachkala is the third Buyan-class vesselput in service with the Caspian Flotilla.
Buyan class corvettes have been specifically designed to operate in shallow waters and carry out a broad range of missions in the Caspian Sea, as well as in adjoining river deltas.
The vessels feature a reduced radar signature and high maneuverability.
They were built at the St. Petersburg-based Almaz Shipyard and are armed with an A-190 artillery system, two AK-306 30-mm six-barrel machineguns and Grad-M 40-tube 122-mm multiple rocket launch systems.
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