Nanuchka-class corvette

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Nanuchka I class corvette Vikhr in 1988
Class overview
Operators	Soviet Navy (former)  Russian Navy  Algerian National Navy  Indian Navy (former)  Libyan Navy (former)
Succeeded by	Buyan class
Completed	47
Cancelled	1
Active	9-11
Lost	5
Retired	30+
General characteristics
Type	Guided missile corvette
Displacement	560 long tons (569 t) standard, 660 long tons (671 t) full load
Length	59.3 m (194.6 ft)
Beam	12.6 m (41.3 ft)
Draught	2.7 m[1]
Propulsion	3 shaft Diesels, 30,000 hp (22,371 kW)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range	2,500 nautical miles (4,630 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h); 900 nmi (1,667 km) at 30 kn (56 km/h)
Complement	60
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: Band Stand fire control Bass Tilt Peel Pair surface search Pop group
Armament	6 × P-120 (SS-N-9 'Siren') (2×3) or 4 × P-15 (SS-N-2 'Styx') (export ships) anti-ship missiles 16 × Kh-35 (SS-N-25 'Switchblade') anti-ship cruise missiles (Nanuchka III) 20 × 4K33 (SA-N-4 'Gecko') surface-to-air missiles Twin 57mm AK-257 gun (Nanuchka I) 1 × 76mm AK-176 gun (Nanuchka III) 1 × 30mm AK-630 gun (Nanuchka III)

The Nanuchka class, Soviet designation Project 1234 Ovod, are series of corvettes (small missile ships in Soviet classification) built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1969 and 1991.

These ships were designed around the P-120 Malakhit ("Siren") anti ship missile. Export versions used the P-15 Termit ("Styx") missile. In 2019 the missiles on Smerch were replaced with sixteen Uran/SS-N-25 'Switchblade'. Unlike smaller missile boats, both carry SA-N-4 ("Gecko") SAMs for self-defence. The original Nanuchka I carried a twin 57mm AK-257 main gun, replaced by a 76mm AK-176 in the Nanuchka III and an updated AK-176MA was added to Smerch during the refit. The Nanuchka III also has a rotary 30mm AK-630 point-defence gun to bolster its protection against missile attack. Currently Project 12341 ships are receiving BAGIRA Fire Control System turning them into multirole vessels.^[2]

Reportedly the Mirazh, a Nanuchka III corvette, sank a Georgian vessel during an attempted attack on Russian ships off Abkhazia on 10 August 2008.^{[citation needed]}

 Russian Navy

• Nanuchka I (Project 1234) - 17 boats - retired in the 1990s, except Musson which was sunk in error by an SSM during an exercise in 1987 (39 fatalities).^[3]
• Nanuchka III (Project 12341) - 16 boats - 6-8 in service with the Russian Navy as of 2022 (4 Baltic, 1-3 Pacific, 1 Northern).
• Nanuchka IV (Project 12347) - 1 boat Nakat - retired in 2012. Trial vessel for P-800 Oniks ASHM.

 Algerian National Navy

• Nanuchka II (Project 1234E) - 3 ships delivered in 1980-81, still in service.

 Indian Navy

• Nanuchka II (Project 1234E) - 3 ships known as the Durg class, last ship decommissioned in 2004.

 Libyan Navy

• Nanuchka II (Project 1234E) - 4 ships delivered in 1982-85. Al Zaquit was sunk and Ain Al Gazala was damaged (later scrapped) by US forces on March 25, 1986. Ain Zaara was in repairs in Misrata and was destroyed in a NATO airstrike on May 19, 2011. The last ship, Tariq Ibn Ziyad was destroyed during a fight between Libyan government army and radical Islamist forces in Benghazi harbour November 3, 2014.^[4]

Libyan People's Army

• Nanuchka II (Project 1234E) - 1 ship Tariq Ibn Ziyad was captured in 2011 from the Libyan Navy. The ship was returned to Libyan Navy after the civil war. Subsequently destroyed in 2014.

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
• Berezhnoy, S.S.; Бережной, С.С. (2001). Malye protivolodochnye i malye raketnye korabli VMF SSSR i Rossii (Малые противолодочные и малые ракетные корабли ВМФ СССР и России). Morskaya Kollektsya no. 2/2001 (in Russian). Moscow: Zhurnal Modelist-konstruktor. ISBN 9780851776057. OCLC 48149340.
• "Project 1234 Nanuchka class Guided Missile Corvette". Federation of American Scientists. 7 September 2000. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
• "Guided Missile Corvette Shtil'". Flot.sevastopol.info. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
• "Guided Missile Corvette Mirazh". Flotsevastopol.info. Retrieved 16 January 2008.

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  Export Nanuchka II-class corvette moored in Leningrad (i.e., Saint Petersburg). Photo was taken in July 1983
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  Libyan Nanuchka II burns after being hit 25 March 1986
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  A port beam view of a Soviet Nanuchka I.