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Gremyaschy


Gremyaschy. Photo from project956.narod.ru

Gremyaschiy is a Project 956 Destroyer.

REGISTRATION

Northern Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The destroyer was laid down in 1987 at Zhdanov Shipyard No 190 (now called Severnaya Verf Shipyard) in Leningrad with the name of Bezuderzhny; launched in 1990; commissioned in 1991. The ship is known as Gremyaschy since 2007.

MILESTONES

In 1993 it was first-ever visit of Russian warship visited port New York.

In 1994 the destroyer was taken under patronage of Chelyabinsk region.

The ship has not been put to sea since 1997.

In 1998 it was inactivated and expects for repairs.

It was the first to use marine platoon as a part of the crew to defend the ship.

It became the first warship which flag was sanctified by the Orthodox Church.

PERFORMANCE

Speed: 32 knots
Crew: 296 men
Endurance: 30 days

DIMENSIONS

Standard displacement: 6,500 tonnes
Total displacement: 7,940 tonnes
Extreme length: 156.5 meters
Extreme beam: 17.2 meters
Draft: 5.96 meters

PROPULSION

2 GTZA-647 steam turbines 50,000 hp each; 2 fixed-pitch screws

ARMAMENT

2 coupled gun mounts AK-130/54; 4 30-mm six-barrel gun mounts AK-630; 2 quadruple launchers for P-270 Moskit antiship cruise missiles; 2 six-barrel RBU-1000 ASW rocket launchers; 2 Shtil SAM launchers; 2 coupled 533-mm torpedo tubes; 1 Ka-27 helicopter.