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The crew of Russia’s Project 22800 (Karakurt-class) corvette Odintsovo has tested the Pantsir-M naval anti-aircraft gun-missile (AAGM) system against aerial targets in the Baltic Sea, the press department of the Baltic Fleet announced on the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) website on 27 October.
![The Project 22800 corvette
Odintsovo
(pennant number 584) has test-fired the Pantsir-M naval AAGM.
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The Project 22800 corvette Odintsovo (pennant number 584) has test-fired the Pantsir-M naval AAGM. (Russian MoD)
M-6 compact air-launched targets released by Naval Aviation Su-27 combat aircraft were employed during the test.
Set to join the Russian Navy (VMF) in 2020, Odintsovo is the first Project 22800 corvette armed with the Pantsir-M naval AAGM system. The Baltic Fleet now operates two ships of the class, Mytishchi and Sovetsk with two AK-630 close-in weapon systems each instead of the Pantsir-M.
The Project 22800 corvette is 67 m long and 11 m wide, and has a drought of 4 m. It is powered by two 7,360 kWt M507D1 diesel engines and a 8,830 kWt M70FRU gas-turbine engine. The corvette has a top speed of 30 kt, a range of 2,500 n miles, and an endurance of 15 days. Its armament suite comprises a nose-mounted AK-176MA 76 mm naval gun, an aft-mounted Pantsir-M system, and a superstructure-mounted eight-cell 3S14 vertical-launch system with Kalibr missiles. The corvette can carry an Orlan-10 navalised unmanned aerial vehicle.
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