The Project 21631 Buyan-M-class missile corvettes will be modernized and furnished with new radio-electronic weapons and air defence capabilities.

Speaking at an official ceremony of raising the St. Andrew’s flag on the Project’s sixth warship, the Vyshny Volochyok. “Overall, 12 warships of this series are planned and their further development will be renewed, considering progress both in radio-electronic weapons and air defence capabilities,” Russian Navy Shipbuilding Department Head Rear Admiral Vladimir Tryapichnikov said,.

By now, five corvettes of this Project have been built. Three of them are operational in the Caspian Flotilla and two are in service with the Baltic Fleet, the rear admiral noted.