The ship was built at the Northern Shipyard according to a project developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design BureauMOSCOW, March 7.
/tass/. The main multi-purpose corvette of project 20380 "Steregushchy" during deep modernization at the Kronstadt Marine Plant (KMZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) will receive a new Kalibr-NK strike missile system, strengthen air defense with the Poliment-Redut complex, and also update the main power plant. This was reported to TASS in the shipbuilding industry.
"The Steregushchy corvette has arrived at the Kronstadt Marine Plant for deep repairs and modernization, during which the ship will update the strike missile system and the main power plant," the agency interlocutor said.
According to him, the combat power of the lead corvette will be noticeably strengthened. "The ship will receive a universal ship firing system for Kalibr-NK missiles instead of the Uran missile system. The ship's air defense system will also be strengthened - the Kortik-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex will be replaced by the 9K96 Poliment-Redut ship complex with 16 launch cells," he said.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
The corvette was named after the destroyer "The Guardian", who died in battle with superior Japanese forces on February 26, 1904. The ship was built at the Northern Shipyard according to a project developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau. Transferred to the Baltic Fleet on November 20, 2007. To defeat surface targets, the lead ship of the project had the anti-ship complex "Uranus", for air and surface - the complex "Dirk" and MANPADS "Igla". Starting with the second unit of the project corvette "Savvy", separate changes were made to the project.
The Kronstadt Marine Plant celebrated 165 years since its foundation on March 4. Over the years, the plant, conceived for the "correction of the steam fleet," has restored the readiness of more than 10 thousand ships and vessels for various purposes. Among them are the first Russian battleships, the first seaworthy destroyer "Explosion", cruisers "Aurora", "Varyag", battleships "Sevastopol", "October Revolution", destroyers of the "Novik" type, submarines, icebreakers "Ermak" and "Krasin" and many others.
