Neustrashimyy class frigate

For the 1950s destroyer, see Neustrashimy class destroyer.

Frigate Neustrashimy (FF 712)
Class overview
Name:	Project 1154 Yastreb
Builders:	Yantar yard , Kaliningrad
Operators:	Soviet Navy,  Russian Navy
Preceded by:	Burevestnik class frigate
Succeeded by:	Admiral Sergei Gorshkov class frigate
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:	129.6 m
Beam:	15.6 m
Draught:	5.6 m
Installed power:	110,000 hp
Propulsion:	2 shaft COGAG (gas turbines)
Speed:	30 knots
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:not installed 16×Kh-35 Uran/SS-N-25 Switchblade (four quad) SAM: 4×8 VLS for SA-N-9 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 (RPK-2 Viyuga/SS-N-15 Starfish) 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 the most modern large frigates in the Russian Navy. The Soviet designation is Project 1154 Yastreb ("Hawk").

Design

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, the Neustrashimy (Неустрашимый - "Fearless"), was in active service with the Russian Baltic Fleet by the mid 1990s. On February 24, 2009 the second ship in the class, the Yaroslav Mudry, left the Yantar shipyard in Russia's Kaliningrad for its first sea-trials.^[1] As of 2010, both the Neustrashimyy and the Yaroslav Mudryy are operational with the Baltic Fleet.

Program

The ships were built by Yantar Yard, Kaliningrad. Only the 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 February, 2009, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry has begun sea trials and entered service in April, 2009.^[2]

2008-09 deployment to Somalia

In late September 2008, the 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 Capt. 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 October 27, it was operating independently in the vicinity of a group of NATO warships near the Somali coast.^[5] On November 11, it helped capture suspected pirates along with the Royal Marines of HMS Cumberland that had been attempting to board the MV Powerful. On November 16, 2008, it prevented pirates from capturing Saudi Arabian ship edit] Ships in service

• 712 - Neustrashimyy (1993) - Operational in Baltic Fleet, will be transferred to Black Sea Fleet.^{[citation needed]}

• 727 - Yaroslav Mudryy (2009) - Commissioned June 21, 2009.^[6]; Operational in Baltic Fleet, will be transferred to Black Sea Fleet.^{[citation needed]}

Building

• Tuman - The work on the ship was suspended when about 30% complete in 1996 and was laid up in 1998 only to clear space in dry dock. May be finished and sold for export.^[7]

References

1. ^ http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090224/120272685.html
2. ^ Russia's Yaroslav Mudry frigate to begin trials in Baltic Sea
3. ^ Russia sends warship to fight piracy near Somalia
4. ^ [1]
5. ^ "NATO escorts shipload of supplies to Somalia". Associated Press. Google News. 2008-10-27. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gB7YMEDuCwwY9ncDOtPAkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_editEI4-H2wD942U5202. Retrieved 2008-10-27. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=7158
7. ^ http://www.warfare.ru/?lang=&linkid=1720&catid=243&pending=true

• Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995

External links

• Profile at warfare.ru
• Profile at fas.org
• Profile at naval-technology.com
• Russian language profile at Belarusian State University
• Russian language profile at atrinaflot.narod.ru
• (English) All Neustrashimy Class Frigates - Complete Ship List