Pauk-class corvette


The Pauk class is the NATO reporting name for a class of small patrol corvettes built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1977 and 1989. The Russian designation is Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. These ships are designed for coastal patrol and inshore anti-submarine warfare. The design is the patrol version of the which is designated Project 1241.1, but is slightly longer and has diesel engines. The ships are fitted with a dipping sonar which is also used in Soviet helicopters.

Ships

[Soviet Navy] / [Russian Navy]

45 boats were built for the Soviets, of which 18 remain in Russian Navy service.

Export

[Bulgarian Navy]

Two ships transferred in 1989/90 - Bodri and Reshitelni

[Cuban Navy]

One ship in service.

[Indian Navy]

Four ships transferred in the late 1980s and are known as the. A plan to license-produce more units in India was abandoned in favor of the indigenous. Ships named
INS Abhay
INS Ajay
INS Akshay
INS Agray

[Ukraine]

[Ukrainian Navy]
Two ships transferred, U207 Uzhhorod and U208 Khmelnytskyi.
[Ukrainian Sea Guard]
Three ships are in service with the Ukrainian Sea Guard.
Both Poltava and Hryhoriy Hnatenko were ready to be decommissioned and were left in Balaklava after the Russian annexation of Crimea; their fate is unknown

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