The launch ceremony
was attended by Crimean Head Sergei Aksyonov.
KERCH, July 24.
/TASS/. The Zaliv Shipyard in Kerch on the Crimean Peninsula floated out the
Project 22800 Karakurt-class cruise missile corvette Tsiklon, a TASS
correspondent reported from the scene.
The launch ceremony
was attended by Crimean Head Sergei Aksyonov, officials of the city and the
Shipyard, shipbuilders and the public.
"Your work for
building ships gives a possibility for other Crimean enterprises working in
cooperation with you to utilize their capacities. This is actually a big deal.
I am confident that thanks to you Crimea will revive its glory of a
shipbuilding region of the Russian Federation," Aksyonov said.
This is the first
Project 22800 ship floated out from the slipway of the Zaliv Shipyard, the
Shipyard’s press office specified.
Project 22800
Karakurt-class missile corvettes are a Russian series of green-water
multipurpose missile/artillery warships. The corvettes of this class developed
by specialists of the St. Petersburg-based Almaz Central Design Bureau for
Marine Engineering (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) displace about
800 tonnes, develop a speed of over 30 knots and their sea endurance is 15
days.
Karakurt-class
corvettes are armed with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles and the upgraded AK-176MA
76.2mm artillery gun.
Source: ITAR-TASS
25-07-2020