Russian Navy minesweeper BT-226-Kolomna in 1994 |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Sonya class (Project 1260) |
| Operators: | Soviet Navy Azerbaijani Navy Bulgarian Navy Cuban Navy Russian Navy Syrian Navy Ukrainian Navy Vietnamese People's Navy |
| Preceded by: | Zhenya class minesweeper |
| Built: | 1971-1991 |
| In commission: | 1971- present day |
| Completed: | 72 |
| Retired: | ? |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | coastal minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 400 tons standard, 450 tons full load |
| Length: | 48.8 meters |
| Beam: | 8.8 meters |
| Draught: | 2.1 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft diesel engines 2400 hp |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,556.0 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 10 days |
| Crew: | 43 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
radar: Spin Trough Sonar; MG-89 |
| Armament: | 2 - 30mm guns (1x2) 2 x 25mm guns (1x2) Sweeps GKT, PEMT-2, ST-2 |
The Sonya class were a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy and Soviet allies between 1971 and 1991. The Soviet designation is Project 1265 Yakhont.
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A wooden hulled coastal minehunter, built as a successor to the Vanya class with new sweeps and more effective sonar. A central safe explosion proof area is fitted and all key systems can be remote controlled from there.
A total of 72 ships were built by Uliis yard in Vladivostok and Avangard yard in Petrozavodsk between 1971 and 1991. One ship, the BT-730 was lost in an accident in 1985 Another unit collided with a Swedish surveillance ship (HMS Orion) east of Gotland in the Baltic in November 1985.[1]
26 ships active with 14 in reserve [2]
2 ships in service
2 ships in service
4 ships transferred
4 ships transferred
1 ship transferred
2 ships transferred
Gardiner, Robert (ed.) (1995). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501327. OCLC 34267261.
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