2nd. & 25th. Guard Missile Boat Battalions (Ulysses Bay)

 corvette (warship), draw only border

x11 Project 1241,1 Molniya-1 (Lightning)
(NATO name) Tarantul I Class
Small ASM Missile Corvettes

2nd. & 25th. Guard Missile Boat Battalions (Ulysses Bay)
Subordinate to 165th surface combatant brigade :
The "Primorsk" (Maritime Province) Flotilla (Fokino)

Comprised (as of 2008)
R-11 (940)
R-14 (924)
R-18 (937)
R-19 (978)
R-20 (921)
R-24 (946)
R-29 (916)
R-79 (995)
R-261 (991)
R-297 (951)
R-298 (971)

The NATO designation is Tarantul (Tarantula). These ships were designed to replace the Osa class missile boats. In the late 1970s, the Soviets realised the need for a larger, more seaworthy craft with better gun armament and higher positioned air search radars. The need for these improvements was underscored by the First Gulf War, when 12 Iraqi 'Osa-I's' were destroyed or damaged by short ranged Sea Skua anti-ship missiles. They were attacked by British Lynx helicopters, but the Osa crews didn't notice them because they flew below their radar horizon.

In the Tarantul, both the single 76 mm main gun and the two 30 mm Gatling-type guns are used for air defence, together with a comprehensive electronic warfare suite. The boats are built by the Petrovsky yard (Leningrad), Rybinsk and Ulis yard (Vladivostok).The vessels in this unit were , however, all built at Shipyard imeni 60, Khabarovskiy. A version of these ships for coastal anti submarine warfare and patrol was developed as the Pauk class corvette or Project 1241.2.

Some sources credit the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) with at least one Tarantul presently in use and more than 30 planned (licensed indigenous production), while other sources reject this estimate, mostly because of the availability of indigenous 'Houijan' missile corvettes (also with some Russian content).

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