OREANDA-NEWS. April 05, 2010. OPK’s shipyards launched the first serial corvette “Soobrazitelniy”

Severnaya Verf shipyard, a part of United Industrial Corporation (OPK), launched the first serial corvette pr. 20380 “Soobrazitelniy”.

The pr. 20380 corvettes intend for functioning in the nearest sea area and fighting with surfaces ships and submarines and also for military operations. The first ship of this series of ships was “Stereguschiy”, built in October 2008 and intended for Baltiysky fleet.

 “This ship is technically equipped and capable to search, find and destroy submarines and carry out shock functions”, Viktor Chirkov, commander-in-chief and vice-admiral of Baltiysky fleet noticed at the solemn ceremony of launching the ship.

He congratulated shipbuilders of Severnaya Verf shipyard on fulfilling such a difficult and ugly task. Chirkov marked that “Soobrazitelniy” was the first serial ship, completed in time, determined by the customer. He added that the design project was changed a little.

The director of OPK Shipbuilding Andrey Fomichev emphasized that the launching of the first corvette was evidence of stable financial support from RF Ministry of Defense.

Nowadays Severnaya Verf shipyard works out two corvettes “Boykiy” and “Stoykiy”. A representative of Russian navy noticed that such ships were well technically equipped and multifunctional.