Tarantul-class corvette

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ORP Metalowiec, a Polish Navy Tarantul-I missile corvette in Gdynia
Class overview
Name	Tarantul class
Builders	Vympel Shipyard
Operators	Soviet Navy  Russian Navy  Bulgarian Navy  Volksmarine  German Navy  Indian Navy  Polish Navy  Romanian Naval Forces  Ukrainian Navy  Vietnam People's Navy  Yemeni Navy  Egyptian Navy  United States Navy  Turkmen Naval Forces
Subclasses	Pauk-class corvette Veer-class corvette
Completed	~80 (including Pauk class)
Lost	1
Preserved	2 or 3
General characteristics
Type	Missile corvette
Displacement	480 long tons (488 t) standard, 540 long tons (549 t) full load
Length	56.0 m (183 ft 9 in)
Beam	10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
Draught	2.5 m (8 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft COGAG turbines at 11,000 hp (8,200 kW) each, plus 2 cruising engines at 4,000 hp (3,000 kW) each (there were diesel and turbine versions of the cruising engines),
Speed	42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph)
Range	2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph), operational autonomy for 10 days
Complement	50
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: Spin trough, Bass Tilt, Peel pair, Pop group
Armament	4 × P-15 Termit/SS-N-2 Styx or 4 × P-270 Moskit/SS-N-22 Sunburn or 16 × Kh-35 Uran/SS-N-25 Switchblade anti-ship missiles. 1 SA-N-5 SAM (1x4) MANPADS air defence missiles 1 × 76 mm AK-176 dual purpose main gun 2 × AK-630 30 mm gun or 1 × CADS-N-1 Kashtan CIWS (close-in weapon system) for air defence

The Tarantul-class corvette, Soviet designation Project 1241 Molniya (Russian: Молния, lit. 'Lightning') are a class of Russian missile corvettes (large missile cutters in Soviet classification).

They have the NATO reporting name Tarantul (not to be confused with the Stenka-class patrol boat, whose official Soviet name is also Project 205P Tarantul). These ships were designed to replace the Project 205M Tsunami missile cutter (NATO: Osa-class missile boat).