Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive two gunboats next year armed with Kalibr anti-ship cruise missiles, a spokesman for the Fleet said Monday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th November, 2018) Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive two gunboats next year armed with Kalibr anti-ship cruise missiles, a spokesman for the Fleet said Monday."The plan for next year is to complete, test and hand over to the Black Sea Fleet two small warships of different projects armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, as well as a tugboat, the Sergei Balk," Capt. 2nd Rank Alexei Rulyov said.
The Kalibr missiles were initially designed for the last-generation submarines but were later installed on other types of vessels. The weapon, with a range of 1,500 miles, was first used to attack land targets in Syria in October 2015 by warships deployed to the Caspian Sea.
