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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Russian Shipyard Starts Work on Fifth Buyan Corvette
A shipbuilder in Russia's republic of Tatarstan has begun construction of a fifth Project 21631 Buyan-class missile corvette for the Navy, the Zelenodolsk shipyard said on Friday.
The corvette, a derivative of the earlier Project 21630, will be named Serpukhov.
The Buyan-class is optimized for anti-surface warfare.
It is armed with an eight-round launcher for 3M54 Kaliber (SS-N-27) cruise missiles, Igla 1M anti-aircraft missiles, a 100-mm main gun and two 30-mm air-defense guns and is equipped with electronic countermeasures equipment, according to Russian-ships.info.
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