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Ukrainian frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy (U130)

Het'man Sahaidachnyi ide na chornomu mori 2012-07-17.jpg
Hetman Sahaydachniy, 2011.
History
Ukraine
Name: Hetman Sahaydachniy
Namesake: Cossack Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Operator: Ukrainian Navy
Ordered: 1991
Builder: Zalyv Shipbuilding yard
Launched: 29 March 1992
Commissioned: 2 April 1993
Homeport: Sevastopol until 2014
Identification: U130
Status: in active service, as of 2016
Badge: Chevron-frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy-(U130)-1.svg
General characteristics
Class and type: Nerei / Menzhinskiy-class frigate
Displacement:
  • 3,100 long tons (3,150 t) standard
  • 3,510 long tons (3,566 t) full load
Length: 123 m (404 ft)
Beam: 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draught: 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:
  • 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
  • 900 nmi (1,700 km; 1,000 mi) at 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Crew: 180
Armament:
  • 1 × twin 9K33 Osa SAM missile launcher (20 × 9M-33 missiles)
  • 1 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) AK-100 gun
  • 2 × sextuple 30 mm (1.2 in) AK-630 CIWS
  • 2 × quad 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
  • 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Armor: Iron
Aircraft carried: 1 × Ka-27 helicopter (2 max)

Hetman Sahaydachniy (Ukrainian: Гетьман Сагайдачний) is a frigate of the Ukrainian Navy that was originally built as a patrol ship of Nerei / Menzhinskiy-class. Homeported at Odessa (since March 2014), she is the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy.

Built at the Zalyv Shipbuilding yard, the ship was intended to be used by the Soviet Border Troops as Kirov. However, on 4 July 1993, the newly named (after Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny) Hetman Sahaydachniy raised the flag of the Ukrainian Navy. She was given the identification number of U130.

In 1994, Hetman Sahaydachniy set sail for France to take part in the 50th anniversary commemorations of the Allied invasion of Normandy.

In 1995, Hetman Sahaydachniy visited Abu Dhabi during the "Idex-95" exhibitions. With Kostiantyn Olshansky, the frigate visited Norfolk, Virginia in the United States.

The vessel has also visited ports in Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Georgia, Gibraltar, Israel, Portugal, Russia and Turkey.

Between November 2006 and November 2007, she underwent major repairs in Mykolaiv at a cost of 15 million hryvnia.


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