February 27, 2021: In a rare event, a new Russian warship entered service more or less on schedule. The first of the new Gremyashchiy class corvettes was accepted by the navy in 2020, as planned. Construction of this ship began in 2011 at the Amur shipyards in the Pacific coast. The ship was launched six years later in mid-2017. Gremyashchiy was completed in early 2019 and began sea trials that revealed no major problems that might have delayed entering service for years, as has been the case with some other new ships. The Gremyashchiy sea trials were extensive and intense, ending with an extended cruise to northwest Russia where it carried out exercises in the White Sea. Gremyashchiy then travelled south to the Baltic Sea where it will be based. While it was initially hoped that Gremyashchiy would enter service at the end of 2019 but sea trials took longer because the ship was using engines from a new supplier, an unfortunate side-effect of the