26.10.2012
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Photo: Missile cruiser
Marshall Ustinov.
It is planned to repair and paint the cruiser's hull, repair propeller-rudder system and bottom fittings. The ship is to be put afloat in May 2013.
In accordance with a state contract, missile cruiser
Marshall Ustinov must be recommissioned into the Navy by the end of 2013.
The state contract for interim overhaul of the cruiser was signed late in 2011. The ship arrived at
Zvezdochka shipyard later that year.
The cruiser was laid down on Oct 5, 1978 at the
61 Communards Shipyard in Nikolayev under the name of
Admiral Flota Lobov. She was launched on Feb 25, 1982 and commissioned on Nov 1986 under the name of
Marshall Ustinov.
Performance characteristics and dimensions
Standard displacement – 9,800 tons
Full displacement – 11,280 tons
Length – 186.5 meters
Beam – 20.8 meters
Height – 42.5 meters
Draft – 7.6 meters
Speed – 32 knots
Endurance – 30 days
Crew – 476 men
Armament
16 launchers of
Bazalt antiship missile system
2 x 533-mm quintuple torpedo tubes
2 antisubmarine rocket launchers RBU-6000
1 x 130-mm gun mount AK-130
6 x 30-mm gun mounts AK-630M
2 dual launchers of
Osa-MA SAM system
8 launchers of S-300F
Rif SAM system
1 antisubmarine helicopter Ka-27
