Project 20382 Tiger Corvette

Project 20382 Tiger Corvette Project-20382 “Tiger” corvette is a ship for acting in the near sea zone against ships and submarines, for supporting landing troops, and against air targets. The corvette is equipped with Uran anti-ship missiles. Kashtan antiaircraft missile system, and Ka-27 helicopter. The “Tiger” corvette’s baseline is project-20380 Steregushchy [“Guarding”] corvette, which is now undergoing factory and state tests, and which is to enter Russian naval forces’ combat strength in late 2007. Experts estimate one export “Tiger” corvette at about $120-150 million. Primarily South-East Asian countries, as well as Venezuela and Qatar are interested in the corvette. A wide range of products of the Russian defence industrial complex is represented at the international exhibition of naval machinery and weapons Euronaval'2004, which opened at Le Bourget near Paris on 24 October 2005. The Russian chief delegate made special note of the latest Project 20382 Tigr corvette, featuring Stealth technology. After experiencing the Western military equipment embargo, Admiral Slamet Soebijanto turned to the East for possibilities. In September 2005, the Navy Chief of Staff and his team visited Russia to explore the purchase of warships from Rosoboronexport, Russia's armament industry. The navy's Strategic Plan for 2003-2013, created by Soebijanto's predecessor Bernard Kent Sondakh, included the purchase of four Sigma Class corvettes from Holland. The plan was already approved by the House of Representatives (DPR). The four ships were to be purchased in two stages-the first in 2003. The Dutch government provided export credit facilities. The first two ships were currently being constructed and were expected to be ready in 2007. After the presentation of the project 20382 Tiger Corvette, an export variant of the project 20380 Steregushchiy (Guardian) Corvette, a number of participants of the International Naval Salon held in June 2007 in St. Petersburg, there was some customer interest in it. Rosoboronexport (Russian Defense Export State Corporation) was working actively in this direction and hoped to have some particular contracts by the summer of 2008. On 29 June 2007, at the 3rd International Naval Exhibition in St. Petersburg, Rosoboronexport’s First Deputy Director General Vladimir Pakhomov and Indonesian Naval Forces Commander Admiral Slamet Subijanto signed a contract agreement on building project-20382 “Tiger” corvettes for Indonesia’s Navy. Later a firm contract would have to be signed, fixing the terms for the project’s implementation and the number of ships to be built. The corvette hulls would be built in Spain according to Russia’s design. There they would be equipped with engines and navigation equipment. The corvettes would sail under their own power to Severnaya Verf, where communication equipment, radio-electric equipment, armaments and other systems would be installed. It was Indonesia that required the corvette’s hull to be built in Spain. Rosoboronexport agreed to this plan in order to gain access to Indonesia’s naval market. Spain had been successfully working at Indonesia’s defense market for a long time. Thus it was said to be easier for Rosoboronexport to promote Russian ships to Indonesia thru Spain. Spain had not initially chosen the dockyard for building the corvettes. Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Energy believed that such international cooperation could delay the contract’s signing and implementation. It would be necessary to obtain numerous licenses for supplying the corvettes’ design data to Spain, and this would require solving issues of intellectual property rights, commercial and state secret protection,. Russia already had a positive experience suppling India with of ing European and Israeli electronic systems installed on Russian Su-30MKI fighter jets, and Russian fire system “Smerch”, onto Czech Tatra trucks. However, these projects were difficult to implement due to the substantiall amount of coordination work required. By mid-2007 Rosoboronexport State Corp., the Moscow-based state intermediary arms-trade agency, was briefing Algeria, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore on the new Project 20382 Tigr. At present, corvettes are employed by 30 nations while only 7 nations are capable of building them. Estimated market capacity as concerns such ships for 20 years to come is USD 9.5 billion.

Project 20382 Tiger Corvette Specifications DESIGNATION

ASW operations, escort missions, offshore patrols

BASIC PARTICULARS Length overall

93.9 m

Length at WL

84.6 m

Beam at deck

13.0 m

Depth at the fore

9.4 m

Depth amidships

7.8 m

Depth at transom

7.8 m

Full displacement

ab.1900 t

Maximum speed

26-27 kn

Range

4000 nm at 14 kn cruise speed with full fuel stores

Endurance

15 days with maximum fresh water and provision stores

Crew

90, including helo team

PROPULSION SYSTEM

Twin shaft CODOG system, comprising:

ELECTRIC SYSTEM

Basic power supply AC 380/220V, 50 Hz. 4x630 kw diesel gensets.

ARMAMENT

8 x YAKHONT anti ship missiles in 2 vertical launchers 6 x MEDVEDKA-VE anisubmarine missiles in one vertical launcher A190 gun mount 100mm caliber 2 x KASHTAN-M close-in AA missile-artillery system 2 x MTPU pedstal mashine gun 14.5 mm caliber

SENSORS

Observation and target designation Radar system Attack missile target designation Radar system Artillery fire control Radar system Two optronic fire control systems for AA close-in weapons ECM Radar system Chaff and decoy launcher system with four launchers CO's electronic commamd console Sonar system with hull mounted and towed arrays Anti diver sonar system

NAVIGATION AIDS

Integrated navigated system, compring gyro, magnetic compass, echosounder, log, radio direction finder, satellite system. The details of navaids complement could be specified on Customer choice.

COMMUNICATION

The complement of communication system is provided under Customer specifications.

OTHER EQUIPMENT

Active roll motions damper Helicopter, hangar, flight deck Launching/retrieving device for a towed sonar

2 x 10,000 kW gas turbines 2 x 3650 kW diesel engines