Krivak class frigate
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 A Krivak I class frigate at anchor. |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Zhdanov yard, Leningrad Yantar yard Zaliv plant, Kerch |
| Operators: | Russian Federation Navy KGB Maritime Border Guard Indian Navy Ukrainian Navy |
| Preceded by: | Riga class |
| Subclasses: | Talwar class |
| Completed: | 32 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3300 tons standard, 3575 tons full load |
| Length: | 405.3 ft (123.5 m) |
| Beam: | 46.3 ft (14.1 m) |
| Draught: | 15.1 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft; COGAG; 2x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp; 2x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,995 nmi (9,251 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 200 |
| Armament: | 1× 4 SS-N-14 'Silex' ASW missiles 2× SA-N-4'Gecko' SAM (40 missiles) 4× 76 mm guns (2×2) (Krivak II had 2× 1 100 mm guns) 2 x RBU-6000 Anti-Submarine rockets 2× 4 533 mm torpedo tubes |
The Krivak class were a series of frigates built for the Soviet Navy. The Soviet designation was Project 1135 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel).
These ships were designed as a successor to the Riga class. The design started in the late 1950s and matured as an anti-submarine ship in the 1960s. A total of 32 ships were built for the Soviet Navy and 8 modified ships for the KGB Maritime Border Guard.
The ship's unique features - the bow missile box, the stack and the angled mast earned it a rap-like nickname among U. S. sailors that comes from their foreign ship silhouette identification training - "Hot dog pack, Smokestack, Guns in Back - Krivak."
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[edit] General characteristics
- Displacement - 3300 tons standard, 3575 tons full load
- Length - 405.3 ft(123.5m)
- Beam - 46.3 ft(14.1m)
- Draught - 15.1 ft(4.6m)
- Propulsions - 2 shaft; COGAG; 2x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp; 2x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp
- Speed - 32kt
- Range - 4,995 nmi (9,251 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
- Complement - 200
- Armament
- 1x4 SS-N-14 Silex ASW missiles
- 2 SA-N-4 SAM Missile systems (40 missiles)
- 4 76 mm guns (2x2) (Krivak II had 2 x1 100 mm guns)
- 2 x RBU-6000 Anti-Submarine rockets
- 2x4 533 mm torpedo tubes
- Krivak 3 - designated Project 1135.5 Nerei (Nereus), These ships lacked the SS-N-14 missile system, which was replaced by a helicopter and hangar, and only one 100 mm gun at the bow of the ship. These ships were built for and operated by the KGB Maritime Border Guard.
- Talwar class - this is an advanced derivative built for the Indian Navy from 1999 to 2003.
[edit] Vessel list
[edit] Krivak 1
- Bditelnyy - (Watchful, 1970)
- Bodryy - (Brisk, 1971)
- Svirepyy - (Fierce, 1971)
- Storozhevoy - (Vigilant, 1972), this ship was involved in a mutiny in 1975, which inspired the novel The Hunt for Red October
- Razyashciy - (Furious, 1973)
- Rasumnyy - (Clever, 1974)
- Druznyy - (Friendly, 1975)
- Dostoynyy - (Virtuous, 1971)
- Doblestnyy - (Valourous, 1973)
- Deyatelnyy - (Active, 1973)
- Bezzevetniy - (Serene, 1978)
- Bezukoriznenny - (Irreproachable, 1980)
- Ladnyy - (Harmonious, 1980)
- Porvistiy - (Impetuous, 1980)
- Zharkyy - (Heated, 1975)
- Retivyy - (Ardent, 1976)
- Leningradsky Komsomolets (1976) - renamed Legkiy (Light) in 1992
- Letuchiy - (Flighty, 1977)
- Pylkiy - (Fervent, 1979)
- Zadornyy - (Passionate, 1979)
[edit] Krivak 2
- Besmennyy - (Unchanging, 1979)
- Gordelivyy - (Proud, 1979)
- Gromkyy - (Loud, 1979)
- Grozyachiy - (Threatening, 1977)
- Neukrotimyy - (Untamable/Indomitable, 1978) - damaged by mine during Navy Day rehearsal 2005
- Pitlivy - (Keen, 1982)
- Razitelniyy - (Striking, 1977)
- Revnostnyy - (Zealous, 1980)
- Reskiy - (Sharp, 1976)
- Rezvyy - (Frisky, 1975)
- Ryavnyy - (Spirited, 1980)
[edit] Krivak 3
All ships built by Kamysh Borun Kerch
- Menzhinski - (1984) - named after Vyacheslav Menzhinsky an OGPU chairman in 1930's
- Dzerzhinski - (1985) - named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky the founder of the KGB
- Orel - (ex-Imeny XXVII syezda KPSS, 1987)) - renamed after the city of Orel
- Anadyr - (ex-Imeni 70-Letiya Pogranichnykh, commemorating 70 years of the USSR Border Troops, 1988) renamed after the Anadyr Peninsula
- Pskov - (ex-Imeni LXX Letiya VChk-KGB, 1988) - renamed after the city of Pskov
- Kedrov - (1989)
- Vorovskiy - (1990)
- Hetman Sahaydachniy (U130) - built for the Ukrainian Navy after the collapse of the Soviet Union, named after Petro Konashevych, a 17th century Ukrainian Cossack leader
A further ship to be named Hetman Vyshnevetsky or Hetman bayda Vyshnevetsky - after Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, a 16th century Ukrainian Cossack leader - was not completed due to financial problems
Three improved Krivak 3 frigates were sold to India in 1990s, with more ordered in 2006. [1] The improved Krivak 3 frigates are known as Talwar class frigate in Indian service.
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Article
- (English) Article from FAS
- (English) Article from Warfare.ru
- (English) Photoalbum Krivak-2 Class Frigate "Pitlivy"
- http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/01/flagship.shtml - 1995 mine accident
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