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Russian Navy receives over 60 Kalibr cruise missiles over three months.


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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
Russian Navy receives over 60 Kalibr cruise missiles over three months
 
Russia’s Navy received more than 60 Kalibr (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler) cruise missiles and 42 torpedoes in the second quarter of 2017, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on the single military hardware acceptance day.
     
Russian Navy receives over 60 Kalibr cruise missiles over three months
The Buyan-M Corvette "Uglich" launches a 3M-54 Kalibr anti-ship missile during maneuvers in the Caspian Sea.
     
"Two Sukhoi Su-30SM [Flanker-H] naval planes, more than 60 Kalibr cruise missiles and 42 torpedoes were accepted for the Navy," Borisov said.

He also said that a flag-raising ceremony had been held on the Project 20380 corvette Sovershenny on July 20. The ship had been built by the Amur Shipyard in the Far East in the interests of the Russian Navy.

"Three submarines repaired in docks, two inshore boats, a Project 15163 floating jetty and a large anticommando boat were accepted," the deputy defense minister said.
     

Our video on Kalibr family at IMDS exposition in Russia
     
He recalled that on June 26 the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Yuri Dolgoruky had successfully launched a Bulava (SS-NX-32) ballistic missile from the underwater position in the Barents Sea to hit a target at the Kura training range in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East.

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