A Buyan-class corvette of project 21630 will debut at the main Navy parade in the summer of 2020. The warship of the Caspian flotilla is identical to Buyan-M-class project 21631 but carries no missiles. Experts said the navigation from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea will be a major test for the warship. In the future, such sorties will quickly create missile groups in strategic directions, the Izvestia daily writes.
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| Volgodonsk, a Buyan-class corvette of project 21630. The Caspian flotilla operates three corvettes of this class: the Astrakhan, the Volgodonsk and the Makhachkala (Picture source: Russian MoD) |
