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The first small rocket ship "Rzhev" of project 22800 "Karakurt" built at the Amur Shipyard for the Pacific Fleet arrived at the delivery base in Vladivostok. This is reported by the press service of the enterprise.
MRK Rzhev completed a three-week passage from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Vladivostok, having covered 750 nautical miles, however, by towing. The ship left the completion wall of the Amur GCC on October 8 and moored at the pier of the transfer base of the plant in Vladivostok on October 29.
The ship will have to be completed and all necessary tests will be carried out before being transferred to the Pacific Fleet, the timing of which has not yet been determined. Previously, it was assumed that it would happen before the end of this year. In total, TOPH will receive four "Karakurt".
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The Rzhev was laid down on July 1, 2019, on the same day as a similar ship called Udomlya, and they were launched on the same day — September 27, 2023. Two more MRCS called "Ussuriysk" and "Pavlovsk" are still at the stage of slipway assembly.
The small missile ships of the 22800 project (code "Karakurt") are a Russian series of multi—purpose rocket and artillery ships of the near sea zone (small corvettes). They are designed to conduct combat operations in the near sea zone and participate in the performance of tasks in peacetime and wartime independently and as part of ship groups.
Main characteristics: length — 67 meters, width — 11 meters, draft — 4 meters, displacement — about 800 tons, cruising range — up to 2500 miles, autonomy — 15 days. The main armament is one PU UKSK (universal ship complex) 3S14 RK "Caliber", one 76—mm AK-176MA artillery mount, ZRAK "Pantsir-M", two 14.5-mm or 12.7-mm MTPU machine guns.
