http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120229/171620507.html

Better known as the Talwar class. All 3 are going to the Black Sea to harass the Turkish Navy.

finally you bring some ships into black sea ! and we thought we have to suffer this deadly dullness !!

Even turkish coastguard would show it to the current russian blacksea fleet lol ^^

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seafarting nation indeed.. reconaissance fishing boat watching TurAF F-16's !

NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DIYENE !

Moskva alone would sink your fleet.

nope it wouldnt.

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seafarting nation indeed.. reconaissance fishing boat watching TurAF F-16's !

NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DIYENE !

Talwar class, really? It's like having Turkey build slightly modernized MEKO 200 frigates..

Talwar Class frigates will be out shone by TF-100 light frigates in the pipeline, with quieter electric propulsion system and Multifunctional Phased Array Radar and superior electronics as already seen in Milgem Class.. You Ruskies are going to wish you were in same league. More Ruskie tourists please, helps fund naval projects

TF-100's will not be in the same tonnage class. The TF-100 is a stretch Milgem and is comparable to the stretch version of the 20380 corvette the 20385 mod ships. Talwars are in excess of 4,000 tons. TF-100's will be somewhere in between 2000 and 3000 tons. Turks arent really planning for anything in the 4 or 5000 ton range. They have a 6,000 ton destroyer proposal in the TF-2000 but it has not been funded and no real R&D has been done. I might also add that at present not a single piece of steel has been cut for a single TF-100 class boat too. By the time they cut the steel for the first TF-100 the first 11356M's will already have been in service for several years!

Milgem has become a rather troubled program with only two keels put down in 5 years. At this rate it will be 2018 before any steel is cut for a TF100.

BTW, is there any evidence yet that there will be a 12 cell UKSK and and a VLS shtil ? Along with few other goodies from the Gorshkov class ?

The second batch of Indian Talwars has the UKSK and the Dagestan frigate has it too so no reason to think this thing will be any worse armed than some Molnya frigate in the ASM department. VLS Shtil-1M should be installed if you believe the little gold plaques they stick on keels, but we wont know until the first hull hits the water. Shtil-1M has been in trials since 2006 so they've had plenty of time to sort any bugs.

I know Hindu Talwars have UKSK, but i've heard Russian versions are going to have 12 cell UKSK instead of 8 cell UKSK.