Russia's Navy is planning to order some 40 corvettes, ten for each fleet. The first vessel of this class will make the maiden voyage as early as this May, senior officials at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St.Petersburg told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
"A corvette which is a new generation warship by its performance characteristics and weaponry, will be launched in May to begin a complete range of trials. It is expected to be combat ready and join the Navy in 2007," the officials said.
The first two corvettes will be given to the Northern and Baltic Fleets.
Simultaneously, efforts are underway to round up production capacities and place an orders for building such corvettes with a Maritime shipyard, to replenish the taskforce of Russia's Pacific Fleet.
The Northern design bureau which developed the corvette, has said vessels of this class are "a must to our fleet." They will replace small submarine hunters of Project 1124M because as they surpass them to a considerable extent in firepower and seagoing qualities.
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