Pauk-class corvette

The Pauk class is the NATO reporting name for a class of small patrol corvettes built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1977 and 1989. The Russian designation is Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. These ships are designed for coastal patrol and inshore anti-submarine warfare. The design is the patrol version of the Tarantul class which is designated Project 1241.1, but is slightly longer and has diesel engines. The ships are fitted with a dipping sonar which is also used in Soviet helicopters.

29 ships were built for the Soviets, of which one (Sokol) remain in service with the Russian Coast Guard as of 2022. Kuban was scrapped in Crimea in March 2021 Vessel photo

Two ships transferred in 1989/90 - Bodri (Brisk) and Reshitelni (Decisive)

One ship in service.

Four ships transferred in the late 1980s and are known as the Abhay class. A plan to license-produce more units in India was abandoned in favor of the indigenous Kamorta class. Ships named:

• INS Abhay (Fearless)
• INS Ajay (Unconquerable)
• INS Akshay (Indestructible)
• INS Agray (Aggressive)

Abhay is the currently the only ship of the class still in service as of 2024 .

Two ships transferred, U207 Uzhhorod (now decommissioned) and U208 Khmelnytskyi (taken over by Russia).

Three ships are in service with the Ukrainian Sea Guard.

• BG-50 Hryhoriy Kuropyatnykov - in active service
• BG-51 Poltava
• BG-52 Hryhoriy Hnatenko

Both Poltava and Hryhoriy Hnatenko were ready to be decommissioned and were left in Balaklava after the Russian annexation of Crimea; their fate is unknown.

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published asGardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
• "P Project 1241.2 Molniya-2 Pauk class". Federation of American Scientists. 7 September 2000. Retrieved 27 January 2008.

• (in English) All Pauk Class Corvettes - Complete Ship List