The Navy was replenished with a project mine defense ship 127000 “Alexandrite” and a small rocket ship of the project 21631 “Buyan-M”. Solemn ceremonies of raising St. Andrew's flags were held in Vladivostok and Baltiysk. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
The ceremony of accepting a mine defense ship into the fleet took place in Vladivostok “Anatoly helmets” project 127000 “Alexandrite”. The minesweeper became part of the 114th brigade for the protection of the water area of troops and forces in the North-East with a deployment in Kamchatka.
PMO ship “Anatoly helmets” is the seventh minesweeper of the project 12700 “Alexandrite”, staked on “Sredne-Nevsky” CVD in July 2019 of the year, launched in November 2021 of the year. Delivered to Vladivostok via the Northern Sea Route by towing this summer together with a minesweeper “Petr Ilyichev”. Named after Vice Admiral Anatoly Fedorovich Shlemov (1949-2018 gg.), served in the Main Directorate of Shipbuilding of the Navy.
A solemn ceremony of accepting a small missile ship into combat took place in Baltiysk “city” project 21631 “Buyan-M”. The ship became part of the 36th RTO brigade, which includes the 1st Guards Missile Boat Battalion and the 106th Small Missile Ship Battalion stationed at the main base of the Baltic Fleet.
RCM “city” was built at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard, he is the tenth RTO of the project 21631 “Buyan-M” in a series of twelve ships. MRK project 21631 “Buyan-M” are project upgrades 21630 “Virtue” and belong to multi-purpose ships of the class “River-Sea”. Designed to protect the economic zone of the state. The main armament – universal set of long-range missile “Caliber-NK” eight vertical shafts. Displacement 949 tonnes. Length 74,1 m, width 11,0 m, height 6,57 m, draft 2,6 m. Maximum speed - 25 knots. Cruising range - 2500 miles, autonomy - 10 day. crew - 52 man. Installed water jet propulsion.
