Russian Projects 21630 and 21631 corvettes

[DanielStarseer]

Much appreciated to anyone who has any decent info on these small surface combatants.
I recently learned of them in the October 2010 Defense Technology International (magazine and online).
Several articles refer to the 21630 (Buyan class?) as "Small Artillery Ships" of ~500 tons displacement,
and the 21631 is, for all intents and purposes, a larger displacement vessel (~949 tons) suggested to be armed additionally with SS-N-27s.

I'm especially interested in the newer pattern A-190M 100mm naval gun system these are armed with, as there is little info I can find online about it (NavWeaps.Com doesn't even have anything yet).


Project 21631 here @ RusNavy.Com http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=10166

Project 21360 here @ Warfare.Ru http://warfare.ru/?linkid=2553&catid=271

Thanks again.

 

[DanielStarseer]

Still searching as time permits.
Found several foreign links (not english) with no pics,
but one pic @ ShipSpotting.Com showing the Astrakhan (lead ship of Buyan/Project 21630).

http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo-457924-ASTRAKHAN

Nice kit.