The third Corvette Project 20380 Aldar Tsydenzapov built for Russia's Pacific Fleet begins sea trials in the Sea of Japan. The warship is scheduled to enter service in the Russian Navy in December 2020, five years after it began construction.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, work on the corvette Gieroy Rossiya Aldar Tsydenjapov is going according to plan. This is the third project 20380 ship to be built for Russia's Pacific Fleet. All of these units were built at the Amur shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Russia claims Project 20380 is a multipurpose and very complex corvette. Weighing only 2,200 tons, 104.5 m long and 13 m wide, Russia managed to integrate a very complex and diverse ship system, enabling the corvette to effectively combat surface and air targets, as well as underwater targets.
The most severe construction difficulty on the corvette is that it uses a stealth structure design, thereby significantly reducing the physical area of the corvette.
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