Newest corvette built for the Pacific Fleet “Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov” began testing naval weapon systems. According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the ship entered the waters of the Sea of Japan.
In the Sea of Japan, at one of the Pacific Fleet test sites, a corvette “Aldar Tsydenzhapov” began testing the ship's artillery systems, as well as electronic jamming systems using a 122-mm PK-10 launcher. Tests of the ship are provided by Tu-142 and Il-38 aircraft of the Pacific Fleet. The next stage of testing will be testing anti-submarine weapons and anti-ship missiles “Art”.
The crew, together with the delivery team, checks the reliability of the ship's artillery systems. Today, the corvette conducted regular test firing at sea and air targets from the 100-mm universal shipborne gun mount A-190 and the six-barreled automatic artillery mount AK-630
– It said in a statement.
The newest corvette entered the factory sea trials at the end of September. The transfer of the corvette to the Pacific Fleet will take place until the end 2020 of the year.
Corvette project 20380 “Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov” was laid in Komsomolsk-on-Amur 22 July 2015 of the year, 12 September 2019 from the boathouse into the outfitting and transport-launching floating dock, 21 October 2019 physically launched from the dock. 25 May 2020 year introduced into the transport floating dock “Zeyskaya” for transportation to Vladivostok, where it was delivered in mid-June.
corvettes project 20380 classified as multi-purpose combat surface ships of the 2nd rank of the near sea zone. In the same time, NATO considers the project 20380 too big for corvettes, and defines them as frigates. Project 20380 developed by the design bureau “diamond”.
