Frigate Neustrashimy
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Class overview | |
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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 |
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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.
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. 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. 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.