Project 22800 Corvette Mytishchi To Join Russian Navy On December 17 - Defense Ministry

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th December, 2018) Russian small missile corvette Mytishchi (Project 22800) has completed state tests and will be transferred to the Russian Navy on Monday, Navy spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said Saturday.

"The newest Project 22800 corvette Mytishchi, built for the Russian Navy at the St. Petersburg-based Pella Shipyard, completed state tests in the Baltic Sea testing grounds and will be transferred to the Navy on December 17," Dygalo said.

The relevant information was reported to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Korolev during a working meeting on equipping the Navy with ships with high-precision weapons.

"Currently, active serial construction of small-sized missile ships and patrol ships equipped with high-precision weapons and the latest radio engineering weapons is underway, and the stage of equipping the Navy with ships of the ocean zone has begun," Korolev said.

The commander-in-chief tasked the chiefs of the Navy's main command departments to control the design of the ships of the ocean zone, as well as the testing process of larger vessels.

As noted, the newest domestic technologies were used in the construction of the Mytishchi corvette. It is planned to build 18 Project 22800 ships for the Navy.