BPS-500 missile boat vs Karakurt-class corvette

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AWarships

BPS-500 missile boat

Guided-missile corvette

Karakurt-class corvette — licensed reference photograph

BWarships

Karakurt-class corvette

Guided-missile corvette

Credit

Минобороны России · CC BY 4.0 · Resized · CC BY 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

BPS-500 missile boatLength

62 m

Length source ↗

Karakurt-class corvetteLength

67 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

BPS-500 missile boatlarger figure on 1 of 3

Speed+5%

Karakurt-class corvettelarger figure on 2 of 3

Length+8%
Complement+114%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

16 of 34 rows sourced on both sides

62m

67m

Length+8%

All recorded figures & sources

62 m

Length

Single source

62 metres (203.4 ft )^[source]

67 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

BPS-500 missile boat and Karakurt-class corvette configuration
Specification	BPS-500 missile boat	Karakurt-class corvette
Displacement	—	800 tons (860 tons after first two vessels)^[source]
Power	2 × MTU diesel engine for 19,600 bhp (14,600 kW); 2 x Kamewa pump-jets^[source]	—
Name	BPS-500 class^[source]	Karakurt class^[source]
Operators	Vietnam People's Navy^[source]	Russian Navy^[source]
Built	1998–2001, 2025–present

In commission	2001–present^[source]	—

Planned	4^[source]	16^[source]

On order	3^[source]	—

Building	3^[source]	2^[source]

Completed	1^[source]	13^[source]

Active	1^[source]	7 (+3 likely on trials, one - Askold - heavily damaged, undergoing repairs )^[source]

Laid up	2^[source]	—

Retired	0^[source]	—

Type	Guided-missile corvette^[source]	Guided-missile corvette^[source]

Tonnage	850 tons (full load)^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	MR-352 ("Cross Dome") search radar MR-123 ("Bass Tilt") fire control radar^[source]	Mineral-M radar Pozitiv-M 1.2 3D radar AESA type radar Pal-N-4 5P-10-03 Laska Fire-control radar (for naval gun and AK-630 CIWS ) SP-520 Lanzor KT-216 PK-10 MP-405-1 Satellite communication station Tsentavr-NM^[source]

Armament	1 x AK-176 76 mm gun 1 x AK-630 30 mm CIWS 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-ship missiles 8 x Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missiles ( Ship 381 ) 8 x VCM-01 anti-ship missiles (from A2 onward) 1 x 9K38 Igla MANPADS^[source]	1 × 76.2 mm 59- caliber AK-176 MA or 100 mm A-190 automatic dual-purpose guns 1 × Pantsir-M CIWS with Hermes-K missiles or 1 × 3M89 Palash/ Palma CIWS with Sosna-R missiles (4+4 SAM in total 8 plus under reload units) or 2 × AK-630M-2 CIWS and Tor missile system (on first 2 vessels) 2 × 4 UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles 2 × 12.7x108 mm Kord machine gun^[source]

National origin	Russia^[source]	—

Alternative designation	BPS-500^[source]	—

Builders	—	Pella Shipyard , Saint Petersburg More Shipyard , Feodosia Zaliv Shipbuilding yard , Kerch Zelenodolsk Shipyard , Zelenodolsk Amur Shipyard , Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vostochnaya Verf , Vladivostok^[source]