JJAlpha or other RusNavy experts - ship ID?

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

 

Saw this pic posted over at LockonFiles and it has been bugging me for a few days that I can't identify the ship in the background. Any idea's?

 

I'm assuming it a Russian ship as the pic is taken at Sochi. Initially I thought it might be a Parchim, but the superstructure looks too chunky for that. Too blurred to really tell but does it have 30mm fore and aft?

[Святой]

Guided Missile Corvette "Tarantul III/IV" (prj. 1241.1M / 1241.7)

http://worldnavy.info/specification/boats/1241-1_tarantul-iii.html

[sv-rus]

Это не Тарантул. Больше похоже на пограничный (ФСБ-шный) 10412 "Светляк".

(No "Tarantul" - PROJECT 10412 SVETLYAK PATROL BOAT of FSB)

[Vekkinho]

Do you guys know which planes flew CAP over Sochi during this meeting?!!

 

Last week Head of Uncle Sam payed a visit to Croatia. USAFE Falcons from 510th Aviano AB flew CAP over Zagreb protecting AF1 and president. They were accompanied by Croatian tip of the sword MiG-21bis but only during daytime. I also heard that Bulgaian MiG-29A flew CAP last year over Sofia to protect "the package".

[sv-rus]

How I now over Sochi Bush plane don't have escort planes - only SAM/ground radars.

[Alfa]

Sv-rus got it right :) .

 

The ship in the picture is a Pr. 10412 patrol boat built by Almaz ship building company:

 

Project 10412

 

The Russian border guard operates two variants of this design - namely the Pr. 10410 and 10412.

 

http://www.almaz.spb.ru/home/product/10410.asp

 

They look very similar, but the 10412 has a small forward structure with an AK-630 mount, while the 10410 has a single barrel AK-176M artillery mount instead:

 

Pr. 10410

 

Too blurred to really tell but does it have 30mm fore and aft?

 

Yup it does indeed :) - if you look very carefully on the photo you posted, you can make out the small round outline of the AK-630 turret on top of the forward structure - so it is the 10412 variant :)

 

- JJ.

[Alfa]

....actually there is a third missile boat variant called 10411:

 

 

....armed with the Uran(SSM variant of Kh-35) missile system. Although in the above photo those Uran launchers are clearly a photo-shop job :D .

 

http://www.almaz.spb.ru/home/product/10411.asp

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

An ID from sv-rus in less than 5 hours - Fast work !!

 

Plus a link to more details and background info and photo's from JJAlpha - outstanding work.

 

But no more than one would expect from this Forum, and I think that says a lot about the people in the Lockon Community. Reps on the way....

[Rodgerdat]

Thanks for the follow up Brit I was very interested in the same issue.