On September 14, 2023, a solemn ceremony of raising the flag of the Russian Navy took place in Vladivostok on the corvette "Sharp" of the modified project 20380 (factory number 2104), built by PJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This is the fourth corvette of Project 20380, built at ASZ for the Pacific Fleet.
Commissioned by the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy corvette "Sharp" modified project 20380 (factory number 2104), built by PJSC "Amur Shipbuilding Plant" (ASZ, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"). Vladivostok, 14.09.2023 (c) JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"
The solemn event was attended by Admiral Nikolay Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Viktor Liina, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Borovsky, CEO of PJSC ASZ, and Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of Primorsky Krai.
The third and fourth corvettes of Project 20380 with factory numbers 2103 and 2104 for the Amur Plant were built at the ASZ in Komsomolsk-on-Amur under a state contract dated June 4, 2015. The deadline for the execution of the state contract was originally 2020. The laying ceremony for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy of the third Far Eastern corvette "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" project 20380 (factory number 2103) took place at the ASZ on July 22, 2015, and the raising of the Naval flag on the corvette "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" took place in Vladivostok on December 25, 2020.
On July 1, 2016, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur at the ASZ, a laying ceremony was held for the Russian Navy of the second Sharp corvette under this contract (factory number 2104), which was removed from the boathouse on July 1, 2021 and put into the transport and launching floating dock "Zea" of the plant on July 4. From October 5 to October 24, 2021, the "Sharp" in the floating dock "Zeya" was transferred from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Vladivostok. On October 29, 2021, the corvette was removed from the floating dock there and delivered to the completion base of the ASZ. On August 8, 2022, the "Sharp" entered the factory sea trials from Vladivostok, but as a result, the factory and state tests of the ship dragged on for more than a year.
Earlier, the contract for the construction of the first two Pacific corvettes of project 20380 with factory numbers 2101 and 2102 was signed by the ASZ with the Russian Ministry of Defense on January 26, 2006. The lead corvette of project 20380 "Perfect" (factory number 2101) for the ASZ was laid down at the enterprise on June 30, 2006, but turned into a long-term construction and was eventually withdrawn from the boathouse of the plant to the floating dock "Zea" only on May 22, 2015. The "Perfect" corvette began factory sea trials on January 30, 2017 and was transferred to the Russian Navy in Vladivostok on July 20, 2017. The second corvette "Loud" (factory number 2102) was laid down at the ASZ only on April 20, 2012, removed from the boathouse of the plant to the floating dock "Zea" on July 28, 2017 and was commissioned by the Russian Navy in Vladivostok on December 25, 2018.
From the previous corvettes of project 20380, the ships "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" (factory number 2103) and "Sharp" (factory number 2104) differ mainly in the installation of a new multifunctional radar complex "Zaslon" on them with the placement of fixed antennas in a tower-like superstructure, similar to the corvettes of project 20385. The radar complex "Zaslon" is also installed on two corvettes of project 20380, being built at PJSC Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" in St. Petersburg - "Mercury" (originally called "Zealous", factory number 1007, but in October 2021 it was renamed and put into operation under a new name on May 13, 2023) and "Strict" (factory number 1008).
On December 15, 2020, ASZ signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense to build six more corvettes for the Pacific Fleet - two of Project 20380 and four of project 20385, which should be commissioned from 2024 to 2028. The corvettes of project 20380 received factory numbers 2105 and 2106, and the corvettes of project 20385 received factory numbers 2107 to 2110.
On August 23, 2021, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Russian Navy for the first two corvettes under this contract - "Grozny" (factory number 2105) of project 20380 and "Buiny" (factory number 2107) of project 20385, which became, respectively, the fifth corvette of project 20380 and the first corvette of project 20385, being built at this enterprise.. On September 29, 2021, the laying of the second corvette "Brave" (factory number 2106) of project 20380, which will become the sixth and last corvette of project 20380 of the Far Eastern construction, took place at the ASZ.
On June 12, 2022, the laying ceremony of the corvette "Reasonable" (factory number 2108) of project 20385 took place at the ASZ, on July 1, 2022 - the laying of the corvette "Fast" (factory number 2109) of project 20385, and on July 9, 2023 - the laying of the corvette "Zealous" (factory number 2110) of project 20385. They became the second, third and fourth ships of this project under construction in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The ceremony of commissioning of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy corvette "Sharp" modified project 20380 (factory number 2104), built by PJSC "Amur Shipbuilding Plant" (ASZ, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"). Vladivostok, 14.09.2023 (c) JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
