The lead ship of the series "Vasily Bykov" photo 2021There was a confirmation of the previously announced information about the installation of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor-M2KM" on patrol ships of the project 22160. Pictures of the Pavel Derzhavin corvette with the SAM installed on the stern appeared on the Web. Allegedly, the decision to install the SAM on the ships of this project was made taking into account the experience of a special military operation in Ukraine.
The fact that the entire series of patrol ships of the 22160 project will be reclassified into air defense corvettes, "Military Review" has already reported in one of the news materials. It was reported that the corvettes "Dmitry Rogachev", "Pavel Derzhavin" and "Sergey Kotov" will be re-equipped taking into account the combat use of the SAM on the "Vasily Bykov", the fifth corvette of the series "Victor the Great" will enter the fleet already with the installed SAM "Tor-M2KM". The sixth and last ship of the Nikolai Sipyagin series is planned to be transferred to the fleet next year with a new version of the ship-based SAM.
According to a source in the defense industry, only the lead ship of the Vasily Bykov series, taking part in the special operation, was installed in the installed complex, but judging by the picture, the SAM was already installed on the third corvette of the Pavel Derzhavin series.
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The third corvette of the Pavel Derzhavin series with the Tor-M2KM air defense system installed on the stern
The patrol ship (corvette) of project 22160 has a displacement of 1,700 tons and is capable of speeds up to 30 knots. Cruising range – 6000 miles, autonomy – 60 days. The crew is 80 people. The Ka-27PS helicopter is based on board. As standard weapons, corvettes are equipped with a 76-mm artillery installation, an anti-aircraft missile system and machine guns.
