Neustrashimyy-class frigate

For the 1950s destroyer, see Neustrashimy class destroyer.
Frigate Neustrashimy
Class overview
Name: Project 11540 Yastreb
Builders: Yantar yard , Kaliningrad
Operators:  Soviet Navy,  Russian Navy
Preceded by: Burevestnik class
Succeeded by: Admiral Gorshkov class
Planned: 7
Completed: 2
Cancelled: 4
Active: 2
Laid up: 1
General characteristics
Type: Frigate
Displacement: 3,800 tons (standard), 4,400 tons (full load)
Length: 129 m (423 ft 3 in)
Beam: 15.6 m (51 ft 2 in)
Draught: 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
Installed power: 110,000 hp (82,000 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shaft COGAG (gas turbines)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 210
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar: 1 Top Plate, 2 Palm Frond, Cross Sword, 1 Kite Screech
  • Sonar: LF bow monted sonar and VDS
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 Ka-27 Helicopter
Aviation facilities: pad and hangar

Neustrashimy-class frigates (Russian: Неустрашимый, alternate English spelling Neustrashimyy) are a series of large frigates in the Russian Navy. The Soviet designation is Project 11540 Yastreb ("Hawk"). Seven ships were planned for the class, but the fall of the Soviet Union disrupted those plans. Two ships were completed, both currently in active service.

Design and construction

The class was designed as a general purpose anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigate to follow on from the Krivak-class frigates. This new class of frigates incorporates some stealth technology. The ship is equipped with a newly designed Zvezda-1 integrated sonar system (with NATO reporting name Ox Tail) as its primary ASW sensor.

The program started in 1986 and seven ships were originally planned.[1] After the collapse of the Soviet Union the project was frozen and only one ship, Neustrashimy (Неустрашимый - "Dauntless"), was in active service with the Russian Baltic Fleet by the mid 1990s. On 24 February 2009 the second ship in the class, Yaroslav Mudry, left the Yantar shipyard in Russia's Kaliningrad for its first sea-trials.[2] As of 2010, both Neustrashimyy and Yaroslav Mudry are operational with the Baltic Fleet.

The ships were built by Yantar Yard, Kaliningrad. Only Neustrashimy was completed by the time the Soviet Union collapsed. Two further ships were incomplete. Yaroslav Mudry (named after the great ruler of the Kievan Rus, Yaroslav the Wise) and Tuman ("Fog", named after a World War II era Soviet patrol boat whose crew exhibited great valour in combat with three German destroyers). As of 2009, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry has begun sea trials and entered service.[2]

Service history

2008-09 deployment to Somalia

In late September 2008, Neustrashimy left the Baltic Fleet and was sent to the Gulf of Aden waters off the Somali coast to fight piracy in the region.[3] Russian navy spokesman Captain Igor Dygalo told the Associated Press that the missile frigate Neustrashimy had left the Baltic Sea port of Baltiisk a day before the hijacking to cooperate with other unspecified countries in anti-piracy efforts.[4] As of 27 October, it was operating independently in the vicinity of a group of NATO warships near the Somali coast. On 11 November, it helped capture suspected pirates along with Royal Marines from HMS Cumberland; the suspected pirates had been attempting to board the merchant vessel MV Powerful. On 16 November 2008, it prevented pirates from capturing Saudi Arabian ship MV Rabih.

Ships in class

No. Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fleet Status
712 Neustrashimyy Yantar Yard, Kaliningrad[1] 1986[1] May 1988[1] 24 January 1993[1] Baltic Fleet Active
727 Yaroslav Mudry (ex-Nepristupnyi) 1988[1] May 1991[1] 2009[5] Baltic Fleet Active
Tuman 1990[1]
Nepokornyi Cancelled
3 others Cancelled

Building

See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gardiner & Chumbly, p. 395
  2. 1 2 "Russia's Yaroslav Mudry frigate to begin trials in Baltic Sea | Russia | RIA Novosti". Sputniknews. 24 February 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Russia sends warship to fight piracy near Somalia". Sputniknews. 26 September 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Russian Navy takes delivery of new frigate". rusnavy.com. 21 June 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

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