Tarantul-class corvette
ORP Metalowiec, a Polish Navy Tarantul-I missile corvette in Gdynia | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Tarantul class |
| Builders | Vympel Shipyard |
| Operators | |
| Subclasses | |
| Completed | ~80 (including Pauk class) |
| Lost | 1 |
| Preserved | 2 or 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Missile corvette |
| Displacement | 480 long tons (488 t) standard, 540 long tons (549 t) full load |
| Length | 56.0 m (183 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft COGAG turbines at 11,000 hp (8,200 kW) each, plus 2 cruising engines at 4,000 hp (3,000 kW) each (there were diesel and turbine versions of the cruising engines), |
| Speed | 42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph) |
| Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph), operational autonomy for 10 days |
| Complement | 50 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Radar: Spin trough, Bass Tilt, Peel pair, Pop group |
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The Tarantul-class corvette, Soviet designation Project 1241 Molniya (Russian: Молния, lit. 'Lightning') are a class of Russian missile corvettes (large missile cutters in Soviet classification).
They have the NATO reporting name Tarantul (not to be confused with the Stenka-class patrol boat, whose official Soviet name is also Project 205P Tarantul). These ships were designed to replace the Project 205M Tsunami missile cutter (NATO: Osa-class missile boat).