Russia to send improved warships to border with Japan and South Korea

Until 2027, the Russian Pacific Fleet will receive modernized corvettes of projects 20385 and 20380. The ships have

characteristics that are unique by modern standards and will significantly increase the level of effectiveness of the actions of the surface forces of the Pacific Fleet as part of heterogeneous formations of warships. Discuss

This was announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov. According to him, corvettes are being built at the Severnaya Verf enterprise in St. Petersburg and at the Amur shipyard.

Evmenov noted that ships of this class have alreadyenter the Pacific Fleet. The commander also said that in the coming years, the newest mine defense ships of the project 12700 will be included in the fleet.

The corvettes in question are shipsintended for patrol and convoy purposes, to combat submarines and air defense of naval bases. In relation to submarines, corvettes are used to protect ship formations, ports and other coastal facilities from them. Now the Pacific Fleet has three corvettes of project 20380: "Perfect", "Gromkiy" and "Aldar Tsydenzhapov", as well as one corvette of project 20385 - the lead ship of the series - "Thundering". By the end of the year, the fleet will receive the fourth corvette of the project 20380 - "Sharp", which is now being tested.

In the modern Russian Navy, corvettes performimportant functions against the background of the more frequent calls of American warships into the Black Sea, as well as the more frequent exercises of the United States and Japan in the eastern direction.

Recall, the basing points of the Pacific FleetRF are located in Vladivostok (Main base and headquarters), in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk, Sovetskaya Gavan, Fokino, - territories bordering on Japan, South Korea and China.

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Source: Military Review