25.01.2013
Black Sea Fleet antisubmarine warfare ship Muromets returned to Sevastopol after accomplishment training exercises of its ensuring security in Sochi during 2014 Olympics mission.
Warship
Muromets had been patrol the coast of Sochi for a months. The crew conducted the drills in tactical defense and training maneuvers with ocean mine-sweeper
Vice Admiral Zaharin.
It is planned that
Muromets and
Vice Admiral Zaharin will ensure security in Sochi during Olympics.
The ship
Muromets was laid down at
Leninskaya Kuznitsa shipyard (Kiev); commissioned on March 5, 1983. It had a name of
Kievsky Komsomoletssince July 27, 1982;
MPK-134 – since February 15, 1992. The ship obtained a name of
Muromets on April 5, 1999.
PERFORMANCE
Speed: 35 knots
Operational range: 2,700 miles
Crew: 89 men
DIMENSIONS
Displacement: 930 tonnes
Extreme length: 71.07 meters
Extreme beam: 10.15 meters
Extreme draft: 3.71 meters
PROPULSION
Diesel gas turbine M-8M
18,000 shp gas turbine GTU-8
2 diesels M-507A, total power 20,000 shp
3 diesel generators (DG-500, DG-300, DG-200), total power 1,000 kW
ARMAMENT
76-mm gun mount AK-176
30-mm gun mount AK-630M
Osa-M SAM launcher
2 coupled 533-mm torpedo tubes
RBU-6000 antisubmarine rocket launcher
12 depth bombs or 18 mines
