Ingushetia corvette tests artillery fire at acceptance trials.

The Ingushetia Buyan-M-class corvette of project 21631 successfully tested artillery weapons at a range of the Black Sea fleet, the Defense Ministry said.

Russian Navy Project 21631: Buyan-M corvette (Picture source: Wikipedia)

"Artillery fire was held in the framework of acceptance trials before the warship joins the Black Sea fleet. The crew fired in an ordinary regime at maximum rotation and elevation angles at targets imitating sea, coastal and air objects," it said.

The crew also tuned up equipment to control the ship and armaments.

The Ingushetia together with Su-30SM aircraft tested the air defence of the warship.

The corvette was built for the Black Sea fleet and is the eighth warship of project 21631.

Project 21631 corvettes are armed with Kalibr missiles (SS-N-27 Sizzler by NATO classification). They are fired by an eight-cell vertical 3S-14 launcher. Kalibr strikes with cruise missiles at sea (3M-54 missiles) and ground (3M-14 targets. The corvettes are also armed with 100mm artillery gun A-190 and small-calibre antiaircraft artillery gun Duet AK-630-2. They also carry Gibka 3M-47 launchers.

The ship is 75 meters long, the displacement is 949 tons and the speed is 23 knots. Cruising capacity is ten days and the navigation range is 2.5 thousand miles. The crew comprises 52 men.