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Photo: Landing ship Caesar Kunikov.
Black Sea Fleet (BSF) landing ship Caesar Kunikov will leave Sevastopol in March 2013 and head for Bulgaria to pass repair, a source in the fleet told .
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Landing Ship Caesar Kunikov to Pass Repair in Bulgaria in 2013
12/13/2012 |
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As is planned, Caesar Kunikov would undergo repairs at the Flotski Arsenal shipyard in Varna. The ship will pass interim overhaul and modernization; working period will last 2 years. Repair will be performed in settlement of Bulgaria's national debt to the USSR.
Training ship Perekop will also arrive in Varna for repairs in the same period.
Perekop-class training ship Smolny finished interim overhaul at the Flotski Arsenal shipyard in Oct 2012; currently, the ship is moored at Novorossiysk Naval Base.
According to some information, training ship Smolny in 2013 will accommodate Russian naval mariners sent to France for training; in future, they will serve on Mistral-class landing ship Vladivostok being built for Russian Navy in Saint-Nazaire, France.
Project 775/II landing ship Caesar Kunikov (up to May 10, 1989 named BDK-64) was built in Gdansk, Poland in 1986 and commissioned into Black Sea Fleet (BSF) Landing Ship Division. Stationed in Sevastopol.
Basic performance of Project 775 landing ship:
Full displacement over 4,000 tons
Dimensions: length over 112 meters; beam 15 meters; draft 4.4 meters
Full speed 18 knots
Cruising range about 6,000 nm at 12 knots
Endurance 30 days
Crew about 100 men including 15 officers
Armament: two 57-mm gun mounts AK-725 with fire control system MR-103, two 122-mm launchers MS-73 MLRS Grad-M Amphibious lift capacity 10 tanks and over 300 marines