{"id":54704,"date":"2024-02-01T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54704"},"modified":"2024-02-06T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:23:22","slug":"images-of-the-sinking-of-the-russian-corvette-ivanovets-r-334-due-to-a-ukrainian-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/01\/images-of-the-sinking-of-the-russian-corvette-ivanovets-r-334-due-to-a-ukrainian-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of the sinking of the Russian corvette 'Ivanovets' R-334 due to a Ukrainian attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia's naval forces have again suffered a severe blow to their Black Sea fleet today from Ukrainian forces.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/26\/this-is-how-the-russian-ship-novocherkask-remains-the-kremlin-says-it-was-only-damaged\/\">This is how the Russian ship 'Novocherkask' remains: the Kremlin says it was only 'damaged'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/18\/the-images-of-the-russian-submarine-that-was-seriously-damaged-in-a-ukrainian-attack\/\">The images of the Russian submarine that was seriously damaged in a Ukrainian attack<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This noon, the <strong>Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gur.gov.ua\/content\/ivanoviets-na-dni-vnaslidok-spetsoperatsii-hur-mo-znyshcheno-raketnyi-kater-voroha.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has reported<\/a> that on the night of January 31 to February 1, <strong>soldiers of its special unit \"Group 13\" has destroyed the \"Ivanovets\" R-334 missile corvette <\/strong> of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. <em>\"The operation was possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the United24 platform,\"<\/em> notes the GUR.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53502848033_97460b2a58_h.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Russian corvette \"Ivanovets\" in a photo taken on June 11, 2007. Its two 30 mm AK-630 cannons facing the stern and the four large anti-ship missile launchers are clearly visible (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchf.ru\/eng\/photos\/photos_warfarecorvettes\/en_r334_04.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Brichevsky\/KCHF.ru<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The GUR has indicated that the Russian ship <em>\"was patrolling the Black Sea near Lake Donuzlav, near occupied Crimea.\"<\/em><strong>The GUR Group 13 scored several direct hits on the hull by means of kamikaze drones<\/strong>, in such a way that the Russian ship <em>\"suffered damage incompatible with further movement: <strong>the \"Ivanovets\" listed towards the stern and sank<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53501812627_ff3183a5f6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Russian corvette \"Ivanovets\" in a photo taken on September 4, 2012 in the waters of the Black Sea (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchf.ru\/eng\/photos\/photos_warfarecorvettes\/en_r334_09.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Brichevsky\/KCHF.ru<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The GUR adds: <em>\"<strong>The value of the ship lost by the aggressor state is approximately 60-70 million dollars.<\/strong> According to preliminary information, the search and rescue operation of the Russian occupiers in Donuzlav was not successful.\"<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/navy.mil.gov.ua\/posts\/pfbid02qTAVyCtm1wdJjBbEhYYSb4rZbMw39hNr7iM3vm6Qvc2VdXZfG6NmrDgksvL7fiiUl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Ukrainian Navy<\/a>, <strong>the \"Ivanovets\" had about 40 crew members on board.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503122770_053afdce10_h.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The corvette \"Ivanets\" in a photo taken on June 7, 2023. In the image we can see its 76 mm AK-176 main gun on the bow and its four anti-ship missile launchers (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchf.ru\/eng\/photos\/photos_warfarecorvettes\/en_r334_67.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Brichevsky\/KCHF.ru<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>The \"Ivanovets\" R-334 was a Project 1241 Molniya type ship<\/strong>, called \"Tarantul\" by NATO. The first ships of this type were built in 1979. <strong>About 80 units were completed, and four of them are in service in NATO countries<\/strong> (one in the Bulgarian Navy and three in the Romanian Navy ). <strong>The Russian naval forces had 20 corberas of this type in active use, 4 of them in the Black Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53502848013_76cc274356_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The corvette \"Ivanovets\" in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea, on September 29, 2023 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchf.ru\/eng\/photos\/photos_warfarecorvettes\/en_r334_71.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Brichevsky\/KCHF.ru<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>These corvettes are 56 meters long and 10.5 meters wide. <strong>They are fast ships: they can reach a speed of 42 knots.<\/strong> They have a range of 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km) and <strong>they are heavily armed<\/strong>. Each Tarantul corvette carries four P-15 Termit or P-270 Moskit anti-ship missiles, or 16 Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missiles. Each corvette <strong>has a 76 mm AK-176 main gun and 2 AK-630 30 mm guns, as anti-aircraft defense<\/strong>. The only surface-to-air missiles they carry on board are SA-N-5 man-portable missiles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The GUR has published this video of the sinking of the Russian ship<\/strong>, confirming its information:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"uk\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8E%D1%94%D0%93%D0%A3%D0%A0?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0446\u044e\u0454\u0413\u0423\u0420<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 \u00ab\u0406\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0454\u0446\u00bb \u043d\u0430 \u0434\u043d\u0456 \u2015 \u0432\u043d\u0430\u0441\u043b\u0456\u0434\u043e\u043a \u0441\u043f\u0435\u0446\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0457 \u0413\u0423\u0420 \u041c\u041e  \u0437\u043d\u0438\u0449\u0435\u043d\u043e \u0440\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u0430\u0431\u0435\u043b\u044c \u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0430<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8MQb3KJrk\">https:\/\/t.co\/b8MQb3KJrk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tu6uuaF2rt\">pic.twitter.com\/Tu6uuaF2rt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Defence intelligence of Ukraine (@DI_Ukraine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DI_Ukraine\/status\/1753036969976709227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from the video here. Here we see <strong>one of the Ukrainian naval drones approaching the Russian corvette from its starboard side:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503004264_9989b2d70f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this other image we see <strong>another Ukrainian naval drone very close to the stern of the Russian corvette<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503004289_7f4a91108f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A third Ukrainian naval drone approaching the Russian corvette from the port side.<\/strong> Below on the right we see that the ship already had a large hole in the hull, to the right of the bridge, probably caused by another drone Ukrainian naval<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53502848063_c879dd5fc7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The drone in the previous image is heading towards the hole made by another drone.<\/strong> Ukraine has had an advantage in this case, as it knows this type of boat very well. <strong>The Ukrainian Navy had four corvettes of this type<\/strong>, which were captured by the Russians at the beginning of the invasion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53501812642_15a58d821f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the video, several strong explosions are observed on the ship.<\/strong> Judging by the images, the GUR must have launched at least four naval drones against the corvette, from different angles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503004234_216ae9ceed_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Ukrainian drone approaches the corvette, which is listing to starboard<\/strong> after the previous attacks. In the video we see how the corvette's 30 mm anti-aircraft guns fire at the drones, without much success.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503004224_d431897a96_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The dramatic final image, with the corvette sinking astern<\/strong>, with its bow showing above the water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53501812617_0fa23c7f98_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kchf.ru\/eng\/photos\/photos_warfarecorvettes\/en_r334_25.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Brichevsky\/KCHF.ru<\/a>. The corvette \"Ivanovets\" in a photo taken on July 5, 2017.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s naval forces have again suffered a severe blow to their Black Sea fleet today from Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11545],"tags":[21064,16537,21065,18540,21066,10731,16153,12044,15307],"class_list":["post-54704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-ivanovets-r-334-missile-corvette","tag-black-sea","tag-gur-group-13","tag-main-directorate-of-intelligence-of-the-ministry-of-defense-of-ukraine-gur","tag-project-1241-molniya","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-russian-navy","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 06:21:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}