Russia's Mine Hunters of the Pacific Fleet - Marineforum

The mine hunters Yakov Balyaev and Pyotr Ilyichev of the Pacific fleet carried out a mine hunting exercise in the Avacha Bay on the east coast of Kamchatka with the unmanned overwater drone Skanda. The two boats of the Alexandrite class (project 12700) were built at a shipyard in St. Petersburg. With a length of 62 meters and 900 tons of displacement, they have the currently largest fiberglass composite swamps worldwide – a construction process …