23.06.2010
Small ASW ship Suzdalets (Project 1124M) sailed off Black Sea Fleet (BSF) main base Sevastopol to conduct scheduled patrol coastwise Abkhazia. The ship is supposed to be on station for about a month keeping favorable environment in the unquiet region, said an informed source in the interview to Central Navy Portal.
The ship will be deployed off Ochamchira and Novy Afon. Afterwards,
Suzdalets will spend about a month in naval base Novorossiysk. Similar 50-day patrol was previously held by small ASW ship
Muromets which will shift
Suzdalets at Abkhazian coast in Aug.
Early 2010 small ASW ship
Suzdalets had passed drydocking and technical recovery at BSF 91st Ship Repair Plant; diesel generator
DG-500 was replaced. At present, the third BSF
Albatros-type ship
Aleksandrovets is passing analogous drydocking overhaul. Small ASW ship
Muromets in her turn was repaired in winter 2009-2010; one of propulsion diesels
M-507A was replaced with the new one.
A Project 1124M
Albatros small antisubmarine warfare ship is designed for countering submarines in littoral zone. Total displacement is 1,030 tons; length is 71.2 meters; beam is 10.3 meters; draft is 3.54. CODAG powerplant provides full speed of 32 knots and fuel range of 2,500 miles at 14 knots. Armament: one doubled SAM
Osa-M launcher, one 76-mm
AK-176 gun mount, one 30-mm six-barreled
AK-630M automatic gun, two doubled 533-mm torpedo tubes, and one
RBU-6000 ASW rocket launcher.
