Russia's new Project 22160 corvettes to be armed with Kalibr-NK missiles

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Russia's planned new Project 22160 corvette fitted with an aft the Kalibr-NK strike missile system. Source: Nikolai Novichkov
The Russian Navy's new Project 22160 patrol ships will be armed with the Kalibr-NK land attack cruise missile, according to Alexander Karpov, First Deputy Director General of Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipyard.

For Karpov the capability of the missiles was proved when Russia launched Kalibr-NK strikes from the Caspian Sea into Syria on 7 October: "The successful salvoes…demonstrated the firepower of these missiles. Besides, they take up little volume."

Meanwhile, at the Interpolitex-2015 exhibition in Moscow on 18-22 October the Project 22160 ship model was demonstrated at the United Shipbuilding Corporation stand displaying its aft module fitted the Kalibr-NK strike missile system in two containers, of four missiles each, which are raised vertically for launch.

Six of the 1,500-1,800 tonne Project 22160 vessels are due to be operated by the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, with two vessels already under construction. The first vessel,Vasily Bykov , will be fitted with Kalibr-NK and will be handed over to the customer in 2017. The second shipDmitry Rogachev is due to be commissioned in 2018. By the year 2022 the yard will have supplied all six ships. According to the Navy's plans, a group of Project 22160 ships will be formed at the Novorossiysk naval base on the Black Sea.

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