On July 1, 2026, PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur hosted the launching ceremony of the small rocket ship Storm Project 22800, which is being built for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. (code "Karakurt") with the factory number 203 (tail number "403"). This is the third ship of Project 22800 out of four units under construction at the ASZ.
The launch ceremony of the small rocket ship "Storm" project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with the serial number 203, which is being built at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 07/01/2026 (c) United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC
Launching was carried out with the help of a launching dock-the Amur pontoon, built by the ASZ as part of the USC dock program. The launching ceremony was attended by Dmitry Demeshin, Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Admiral Viktor Liina, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Vyacheslav Gospodinov, Director of the USC Department of Defense, and Mikhail Borovsky, Director General of the ASZ.
The Storm is being built in accordance with a contract signed on August 22, 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense for the construction of six small missile ships (MRCS) of Project 22800, which are intended for the Pacific Fleet. Four of them are to be built at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) from delivery to 2026, and two more ships were to be built at Vostochnaya Verf JSC (Vladivostok) from delivery to 2023. However, the contract for the construction of two ships at the Vostochnaya Shipyard was cancelled in 2020.
The first two Pacific MRCS of project 22800 "Rzhev" and "Udomlya" of project 22800 with serial numbers 201 and 202 were laid down at the NPP on July 1, 2019 and launched on September 27, 2023. In October 2024, the Rzhev MRK (serial number 201) was towed from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a delivery base in Vladivostok, but it was not until December 18, 2025 that factory sea trials began in Vladivostok. The ship is currently undergoing testing. MRK Udomlya continues to remain at the ASZ.
The third ship of this project, Ussuriysk, with serial number 204, was laid down at the ASZ on December 26, 2019, and the fourth MRK Pavlovsk, with serial number 203, was laid down on July 29, 2020. Subsequently, these ships were renamed, respectively, "Hurricane" and "Storm". Now the Storm, which was laid last, has become the third ship of this type launched on the ASZ.
Thus, a total of 16 Project 22800 ships are being built for the Russian Navy at five different enterprises. The MRK of project 22800 (code "Karakurt") was designed by JSC Central Marine Design Bureau Almaz of USC (St. Petersburg) and was supposed to replace the MRK of project 21631 (code "Buyan-M") developed by JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau in construction for the Russian Navy. However, due to the fact that the Project 22800 MRCS are equipped with a main power plant consisting of high-speed M507D-1 diesel engines, the difficulties of PJSC Zvezda (St. Petersburg) in producing these engines in the required volumes led to the fact that the project 22800 series turned into a long-term construction, and the already launched ship hulls have been idle for years. waiting for these engines.
Since 2015, the construction of the first seven MRCS of the 22800 project has been carried out by JSC Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant Pella (JSC Pella), which eventually commissioned the first four ships of this type into the Baltic Fleet, the Mytishchi (laid down under the name Uragan, renamed in 2018, serial number 251, commissioned by the Navy on December 17, 2018), Sovetsk (laid down under the name Typhoon, factory number 252, commissioned on October 12, 2019), Odintsovo (factory number 253, laid down under the name Squall, commissioned on November 21, 2020) andThe Storm" (factory number 257,html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> commissioned only on May 8, 2026).
Due to problems with the supply of main diesel engines and financing, the completion of three more ships of the 22800 project at the Pella plant was stopped - Kozelsk (laid under the name Storm, serial number 254), Okhotsk (serial number 255) and Whirlwind (serial number 256), - the hulls of which were built at the FSUE "Sea Shipbuilding Plant" in Feodosia (Crimea) and then towed by inland waterways to the Pella for completion in November 2019 - May 2020. Since then, they have been at the factory in the sludge.
In August 2016, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the construction of five serial small missile ships of the 22800 project for the Russian Navy, also with JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (Zelenodolsk), with contractual delivery dates in 2019-2021. Since the Kerch shipyard Zaliv has been under the control of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky since the end of 2014, and now it is under the control of the head structure of the Zelenodolsk SSZ in the form of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation (SKAB) through the structure of JSC B.E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant, the construction of three of the five The MRCS ordered under this contract were carried out in Kerch.
To date, four of the five MRCS of the 22800 project ordered by the Zelenodolsk Plant have been commissioned - the Cyclone built in Kerch (serial number 801, joined the Black Sea Fleet on July 12, 2023) and Amur (serial number 803, commissioned on August 26, 2024 on the Caspian Sea) and built directly on Zelenodolsk SSZ "Cloud" (serial number 804, commissioned on December 21, 2024 in the Caspian Sea) and "Typhoon" (serial number 805, commissioned on August 28, 2025 in the Caspian Sea).
On May 19, 2024, the MRK Cyclone was sunk in Sevastopol by ATACMS tactical missiles fired by the armed forces of Ukraine. The second Askold MRK (serial number 802), which was under construction in Kerch, entered factory sea trials in October 2022. However, on November 4, 2023, the Askold, which had not yet been commissioned, was severely damaged by a Scalp-EG air cruise missile fired by the armed forces of Ukraine, while standing against the wall of the Zaliv plant in Kerch. The ship has not been restored and is currently reportedly in a state of disassembly at the Zaliv plant.
In October-December 2025, the Amur MRK was transferred via inland waterways from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic Sea. According to unconfirmed information from online sources, on May 3, 2026, the Amur was severely damaged by strikes from Ukrainian barrage munitions in the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad Region. Also, according to unconfirmed information from online sources, on May 7, 2026, the MRK Tucha was damaged by strikes from Ukrainian barrage munitions near Kaspiysk in the Caspian Sea.
Despite the significant losses suffered by the ships of the 22800 project in combat, the construction of this type of MRC at the ASZ is carried out without any changes and improvements to their design, and the Storm MRC, launched on July 1, 2026, also does not have any improvements in weapons and means of protection and self-defense.
The launch ceremony of the small rocket ship "Storm" project 22800 (code "Karakurt") with the serial number 203, which is being built at PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 07/01/2026 (c) JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation, www.dvnovosti.ru, www.hab.kp.ru and www.korabel.ru
