Kynda class cruiser
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 Kynda class missile cruiser |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Zhdanov, Leningrad |
| Operators: |  Soviet Navy Russian Navy |
| Succeeded by: | Kresta I |
| In service: | 1962 - 2002 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Laid up: | Admiral Golovko |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,400 tons standard, 5,500 tons full load |
| Length: | 141.7-141.9m |
| Beam: | 15.8m |
| Draught: | 5.3m |
| Propulsion: | 4 boilers 2 steam turbines 100,000 shp |
| Speed: | 34 knots |
| Range: | 3,610 miles (2000 nm at 34 knots, 7000 nm at 14.5 knots ?) |
| Complement: | 390 |
| Armament: | ASM: 2x4 SS-N-3b (8+8 missiles) SAM: 1 twin SA-N-1 'Goa' launcher (16 missiles) Guns: 2x2 76mm, 4x 30mm ASW: 2× RBU-6000 launchers Torpedoes: 2x3 533mm tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | None |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter platform |
The Project 58 Missile cruisers, known to NATO as the Kynda class were the first Soviet missile cruisers and a considerable advance for the Soviet Navy. Their main role was anti-surface warfare using the SS-N-3b 'Shaddock' missile. The design proved top-heavy and was soon succeeded by the larger Kresta I, but the Kyndas stayed in service until the fall of the Soviet Union.
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[edit] History
The ships were ordered in 1956 and laid down in 1960-61. All four ships were built by the Zhdanov yard in Leningrad. Initially classed as destroyers, they were redesignated as Rocket Cruisers in September 1962.
[edit] Ships
- Grozny (Terrible) (Грозный) - completed 1962, scrapped 1991
- Admiral Fokin (Адмирал Фокин) - completed 1964, scrapped 1993
- Admiral Golovko (Адмирал Головко) - named after Arseniy Golovko, completed 1964. From 1995 to 1997 she served as flagship of the Black Sea fleet, before being deactivated and removed from service in 2002.
- Varyag (Варяг) - completed 1965 - decommissioned 1990, This ship featured in a Soviet TV documentary in the late 1970's. There were plans to preserve her as a museum.
[edit] Gallery
 Kynda Class cruiser during the height of the Cold War, 1985 |
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