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 Tarantul class 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.
Bulgarian Navy Pauk-class corvette Bodri
Image: Bulgarian Navy corvette Bodri
Image: Reshitelni 2006
The Tarantul-class corvette, Soviet designation Project 1241 Molniya are a class of Russian missile corvettes.
ORP Metalowiec, a Polish Navy Tarantul-I missile corvette in Gdynia
A Tarantul-class corvette of Vietnam People's Navy
ORP Rolnik, a Polish Navy missile Tarantul-class corvette
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