Wikipedia

User:Kges1901/Soviet destroyer Strogy (1967)

< User:Kges1901
Strogy underway in the Indian Ocean, 1985
History
→ Soviet Union → Russia
NameStrogy
Builder61 Communards Shipyard
Laid down22 February 1966
Launched29 April 1967
Commissioned24 December 1968
Decommissioned30 June 1993
FateSold for scrap, 1995
General characteristics
Class and typeKashin-class destroyer
Displacement
Length144 m (472 ft) (o/a)
Beam15.8 m (52 ft)
Draught4.46 m (14.6 ft)
Installed power4 × M8E gas turbines M3 unit aggregate; 72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Propulsion2 x shaft CODAG
Speed34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement266
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Radar
    • Volga
    • MR-600 Voskhod
    • MR-310 Angara
    • MR-500U Kliver
    • 2 x Yatagan
    • 2 x MR-105 Turel
    • Groza
  • Sonar
    • MG-312 Titan
    • MG-311 Vychegda
Armament
  • 2 × twin 76 mm (3 in) AK-726 guns
  • 2 × twin launchers for M-1 Volna surface-to-air missile system (32 x missiles)
  • 1 × 5 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
  • 2 × twelve barrel RBU-6000 ASW rocket launchers
  • 2 × six barrel RBU-1000 ASW rocket launchers
Aviation facilitiesHelicopter pad for 1 Kamov Ka-25 'Hormone-A'

Strogy (Russian: Строгий, "Strict") was a Project 61 (NATO reporting name Kashin)-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy, which briefly became part of the Russian Navy. The ship served during the Cold War from 1968.

Design

edit
Main article: Kashin-class destroyer
 
A United States Navy-produced profile drawing of a Kashin-class destroyer

Sposobny was one of the second series of her class of twenty Soviet Designation Project 61 Berkut A (NATO reporting name Kashin-class) destroyers. The vessels were initially designated as guard ships, but in 1966 were reclassified as Large Anti-Submarine Ships. All surviving ships, including Sposobny, were again reclassified as guard ships in January 1992.[1] The class was built to replace the Kotlin-class destroyer and Riga-class frigate, rendered obsolete by the advent of guided missiles. It was designed to defend larger warships and transports against low-flying aircraft, cruise missiles, and submarines,[2] though the anti-submarine role ultimately became secondary to its air defense mission. They were the first class designed to survive a nuclear explosion, and as a result had the main ship control station on the lower deck deep in the hull, separate from the enclosed bridge.[3]

The Kashin-class destroyers were 144 meters (472 ft) long with a beam of 15.8 meters (52 ft) and a draught of 4.46 meters (14.6 ft). Sposobny displaced 3,440 tonnes (3,386 long tons) standard and 4,290 tonnes (4,222 long tons) full load, and had a complement of 266. The ship was equipped with a helicopter pad aft to carry a single Kamov Ka-25PL Hormone-A helicopter; the helicopter could only be temporarily aboard the ship due to the lack of a hangar.[4][5]

Sposobny was propelled by two CODAG shafts powered by four M-3A gas turbines,[6] which created 72,000 shp (54,000 kW), giving her a maximum speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph); her class were the first Soviet warships equipped with gas turbines.[3] She had a range of 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) and 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph).[3][4]

Armament

edit
 
Location of fire control systems, search radars, and armament aboard Strogy

For her air defense role, she was equipped with two double ZIF-101 launchers with sixteen V-600 missiles each for the M-1 Volna surface-to-air missile system (NATO reporting name SA-N-1 Goa), a navalised version of the S-125 Neva. Two double AK-726 76.2 mm guns protected against both aerial and surface threats. She was also equipped with two 12-barrel RBU-6000 and two 6-barrel RBU-1000 anti-submarine rocket launchers, and a quintuple mounting for 533-millimeter (21.0 in) dual-role torpedoes.[3][4] The Ka-25 helicopter that could be landed on the destroyer was also capable of aiding in the search and destruction of submarines.[5]

Sensors and electronic warfare

edit

As a ship of the second series of her class, Sposobny was equipped with more advanced sensors. Instead of the two MR-300 search radars of the first series, she received an MR-310 Angara on her foremast and an MR-500U Kliver on the mainmast. She differed from the earlier members of her series in being equipped with two more advanced Volga navigational radars on the foremast instead of a single Don radar. The destroyer was equipped with MG-312 Titan and MG-311 Vychegda sonar.[6][4]

For fire control, Sposobny received the Yatagan fire control system for her Volna, the Turel for her AK-726, and the Groza for her torpedoes. Sposobny also had a MG-26 communications outfit, a Triton transceiver, the MPP-315 remote indicator for her Volga, and the Nikel-KM identification friend or foe system. For electronic warfare she was equipped with the MRP 13-14 direction finding system.[4][6]

Construction and service

edit

Built in the 61 Communards Shipyard in Nikolayev with the serial number 1709, the destroyer was laid down on 22 February 1966, launched on 29 April 1967, and commissioned on 24 December 1968, under the command of Captain 3rd rank Mikhail Khronopulo.[7] The naval jack of the Soviet Union was raised aboard her two days after the commissioning.[8] Strogy was added to the Navy List on 12 January 1968.[9]

1970s

edit

The destroyer became part of the Pacific Fleet on 8 January 1969, and shortly afterwards began the voyage to the join the fleet through the eastern Mediterranean and Suez Canal to the Pacific. Between 7 and 15 December she visited Berbera, Mogadishu, and Kismayo in Somalia. After arriving at Vladivostok, Strogy was assigned to the 175th Missile Ship Brigade on 28 April 1970, and was visited by Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov on 1 June.[8]

Between 20 December 1971 and 15 June 1972 she served in the Indian Ocean, visiting Massawa, Ethiopia between 3 and 8 February during the Ethiopian Navy Day celebration, where she received a visit from Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Along with the missile cruiser Varyag, Strogy visited Mogadishu between 10 and 19 February, where she was visited by Soviet Minister of Defense Andrei Grechko and Somali leader Siad Barre. She demonstrated her weaponry for Grechko and Barre, including the launch of two V-600 missiles against a simulated aerial target. Strogy steamed 28,530 nautical miles (52,840 km) during the cruise under the flag of Kontr-admiral Vladimir Kruglyakov, visiting Bombay, India, Umm Qasr, Iraq, Port Louis, Mauritius, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Aden, Yemen as well as Massawa and Mogadishu. While still at sea, she was transferred to the 201st Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade on 2 April.[8]

After returning to Vladivostok, Strogy was presented a Red Banner by the Primorsky Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for being the "best warship of the fleet". She received the 1972 prize of the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy for anti-submarine training with the hunting group of destroyers Steregushchy and Uporny. Between 24 and 30 March 1974 as part of a hunting group she repulsed simulated air attacks from three different directions at low altitudes. With a hunting group of Stergushchy and Vyzyvayushchy, she participated in submarine search training in a designated sector, detecting the submarine 40 minutes after beginning the search and passing the contact on to other ships between 25 and 26 April. Between 26 and 31 May, with an anti-submarine group under the leadership of the 201st Brigade commander and attached aviation, she used Kolos-NM non-acoustic detection equipment to track a submarine contact.[8]

After practice firing exercises with the RM-15 target missile as part of a strike group with the cruiser Marshal Voroshilov and her sister ship Steregushchy on 3 July, Strogy accompanied Steregushchy and the destroyerVyzyvayushchy on a night minelaying exercise between 8 and 9 August. As part of a hunting group with Steregushchy and the destroyer Gnevny, she received the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy's prize for nuclear submarine search on 1 November. Transferred to the 79th Brigade of Ships undergoing construction or overhaul on 18 November for a midlife refit at Dalzavod, the destroyer returned to the 201st Brigade on 6 June 1976 after the completion of her refit. As part of a hunting group with the cruiser Admiral Oktyabrsky, the destroyer Gordy, Gnevny, and the frigate Razyashchy, she participated in missile defense exercises on 26 March 1977, receiving a rating of excellent. With Admiral Oktyabrsky and Gordy, she participated in the Piton anti-submarine exercise in the Philippine Sea between 14 April and 14 May 1977, during which she was claimed to have detected multiple United States nuclear submarines.[8]

Strogy cruised in the Indian Ocean with the 8th Operational Squadron between 2 December and 16 October 1978. She made an official visit to Victoria, Seychelles under the flag of squadron commander Vice Admiral N. Ya. Isakov between 2 and 7 July, followed by a stopover at Haiphong, Vietnam between 5 and 10 November.[8]

1980s and end of service

edit

[could we get some more details of the Ukrainian attempt to seize control? Buckshot06 (talk) 09:43, 25 November 2018 (UTC)] [16.7.86 during a command staff exercise, collided with BPK "Nikolayev" in the La Perouse Strait - repaired at Dalzavod, Vladivostok; 1.11.90 relegated to the reserve; 30.6.93 decomissioned; 12.94 sold to a company in India for scrapping; 1995 sank off Singapore in a storm, while being towed to Bombay, India - details from Holm @ www.ww2.dk Buckshot06 (talk) 09:45, 25 November 2018 (UTC)]

During her career, Strogy was assigned the temporary tactical numbers 528 (in 1968), 543 (in 1971), 564 (in 1972), 504 (in 1974), 545, and 100 (in 1985).[8]

References

edit

Citations

edit
  1. ^ Berezhnoy 1995, p. 10.
  2. ^ Zablotsky & Kostrichenko 2005, p. 10.
  3. ^ a b c d Gardiner, Chumbley & Budzbon 1995, pp. 390–391.
  4. ^ a b c d e Pavlov 1995, p. 81.
  5. ^ a b Zablotsky & Kostrichenko 2005, p. 21.
  6. ^ a b c Zablotsky & Kostrichenko 2005, pp. 31–32.
  7. ^ Zablotsky & Kostrichenko 2005, p. 127.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Zablotsky & Kostrichenko 2005, p. 99–100.
  9. ^ Berezhnoy 1995, p. 12.

Bibliography

edit
  • Averin, A.B. (2007). Адмиралы и маршалы. Корабли проектов 1134 и 1134А [Admirals and Marshals: Ships Project 1134 and 1134A] (in Russian). Moscow: Voyennaya Kniga. ISBN 978-5-902863-16-8.
  • Berezhnoy, S.S. (January 1995). "Советский ВМФ 1945-1995: крейсера, большие противолодочные корабли, эсминцы" [Soviet Navy, 1945–1995: Cruisers, large anti-submarine ships, and destroyers]. Морская коллекция [Morskaya kollektsiya] (in Russian) (1).
  • Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen & Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-132-5.
  • Kelemen, Paul (March 1984). "Soviet Strategy in Southeast Asia: The Vietnam Factor". Asian Survey. 24 (3). University of California Press: 335–348. doi:10.1525/as.1984.24.3.01p0146p. ISSN 0004-4687. JSTOR 2644070. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  • Pavlov, Alexander (1995). Военные корабли СССР и России 1945-1995 гг. Справочник [Warships of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1945–1995: Handbook] (in Russian). Yakutsk: Sakhapoligradizdat. OCLC 464542777.
  • Zablotsky, Vladimir; Kostrichenko, Vitaly (2005). Гончие океанов. История кораблей проекта 61 [Hounds of the Ocean: History of the Ships of Project 61] (in Russian). Moscow: Voyennaya Kniga. ISBN 9785902863038.
edit
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Strogiy (ship, 1967).


Category:1967 ships Category:Kashin-class destroyers of the Soviet Navy Category:Ships built at Shipyard named after 61 Communards

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kges1901/Soviet_destroyer_Strogy_(1967)&oldid=1091517043"