Neustrashimyy-class frigate

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:	Anti-ship missiles: (installed only in the Yaroslav Mudry) 8 × Switchblade (two quad) SAM: 4 × 8 VLS for Gauntlet ASW: 1 × 12-tube RBU-6000 launcher Guns: 1 × 100mm gun, 2 Kashtan CIWS Torpedoes: six 533mm tubes mounted in the superstructure for ASW missiles Starfish or Stallion or Type 53 ASW/ASuW torpedoes
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.

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