The last 100-mm gun "Universal" edition of the St. Petersburg JSC "Machine-Building Plant" Arsenal "on December 28 last year, sent to Northern Shipyard. Told According to a source in the enterprise.
A190-01 gun mounts, the latter produced by the "Arsenal" has already been installed on the corvette 20380 "Courageous", serial number 1003, built of "Shipyard" Severnaya Verf ". Currently, there is an installation and connection of cable runs and" docking " guns with radar fire control system and other REV ship.
Corvette "Courageous" was also without a 100-mm AU production of "Arsenal". To reduce the backlog of general test schedule and transfer ship fleet corvette departed without guns. As stated CEO of "W" Severnaya Verf "Alexander Ushakov, shipbuilders planned , but they are constrained by lack of AU. Now, after mounting guns on the corvette "Courageous" will go on the factory wall in Baltiysk for the continuation and completion of the tests, including holding artstrelb — as soon as the ice situation in the Gulf.
In order to overcome this difficult situation with the under-delivery of the new 100-mm naval gun mounts release MZ "Arsenal" in 2010 decided to postpone the mass production of these guns in Nizhny Novgorod — in the Central Research Institute of "Thunderbird." The first instrument, collected "savages" in cooperation with "MZ" already successfully and will soon be put to the "Zelenodolsky Shipyard Gorky" on the head under construction small missile ship "Hail Svijazhsk" project 21631.