Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I"

The Project 1241 are a class of Soviet missile corvettes. They have the NATO reporting name Tarantul (not to be confused with the Stenka class patrol boat, whose official Soviet name is also "Tarantul"). These ships were designed to replace the Project 205 Tsunami (NATO: "Osa") missile boats.

To clarify, by NATO's definition, Project 1241.RE (NATO: Tarantul-I) was an export version of Project 1241.1 (Nato: Tarantul-II).

This class of ships could be distinguished by the lack of fire control radar on the roof of the bridge. Instead, the fire control radar, X-band "Garpun-Bal" (NATO: "Plank Shave"), built for the anti-ship missiles, was installed on the top of the mast. Other equipment included a small navigation radar type "Kivach-2" on the bridge roof (or MR-312 "Pechera-1" on the ships of Poland), and the gun-fire control radar MR-123 Vympel (NATO: "Bass Tilt") at the foot of the mast. Two PK-16 decoy launchers were also installed. The model of the missiles in the KT-138 launch containers were P-20 (NATO: SS-N-2B), basically they were P-15 updated with the new guidance system but with the original 40 km range.

Between 1977 and 1979, 22 ships of this class were produced exclusively for export. Only one of these ships, R-26, was retained by the Soviet Navy for training purposes. India bought five of these ships as Veer class corvettes, and would later produce eight ships of the same class domestically. Vietnam also bought six Project 1241.RE ships from various sources over the years.

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Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Poolse Marine, ORP Rolnik No.437.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Poolse Marine, ORP Gòrnik No.434.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Poolse Marine, ORP Hutnik No.435.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Poolse Marine, ORP Metalowiec No.436.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Oost Duitse Marine, Albin Kobis No.571.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Oost Duitse Marine, Rudolf Engelhofer No.572.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Oost Duitse Marine, Fritz Globig No.573.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Oost Duitse Marine, Paul Eisenschneider No.574.
Corvette Tarantul Class "Tarantula I" - Oost Duitse Marine, Hans Beimler No.575.

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