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Class of Soviet patrol corvettes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pauk class is the NATO reporting name for a class of small patrol corvettes built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1977 and 1989. The Russian designation is Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. These ships are designed for coastal patrol and inshore anti-submarine warfare. The design is the patrol version of the Tarantul class which is designated Project 1241.1, but is slightly longer and has diesel engines. The ships are fitted with a dipping sonar which is also used in Soviet helicopters.
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Bulgarian Navy Pauk-class corvette Bodri | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pauk class |
| Builders | Vostochnaya Verf |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Poti class |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Anti-submarine corvette |
| Displacement | 500 long tons (508 t) standard, 580 long tons (589 t) full load |
| Length | 57 m (187 ft) |
| Beam | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft M504 diesels, 20,000 shp (14,914 kW) |
| Speed | 28–34 knots (51.9 km/h/32.2 mph – 63 km/h/39.1 mph) |
| Range | 1,650 nautical miles (3,056 km; 1,899 mi) at 14 kn (25.9 km/h; 16.1 mph) |
| Complement | 40 |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Armament | |
29 ships were built for the Soviets, of which one (Sokol) remain in service with the Russian Coast Guard as of 2022. Kuban was scrapped in Crimea in March 2021 https://fleetphoto.ru/vessel/43073/[1]
Two ships transferred in 1989/90 - Bodri (Brisk) and Reshitelni (Decisive)
One ship in service.
Four ships transferred in the late 1980s and are known as the Abhay class. A plan to license-produce more units in India was abandoned in favor of the indigenous Kamorta class. Ships named:
Abhay is the currently the only ship of the class that is still in service as of 2024 .[2]
Two ships transferred, U207 Uzhhorod (now decommissioned) and U208 Khmelnytskyi (taken over Russia).
Three ships are in service with the Ukrainian Sea Guard.
Both Poltava and Hryhoriy Hnatenko were ready to be decommissioned and were left in Balaklava after the Russian annexation of Crimea;[3] their fate is unknown
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