Russian Navy

MPK-229 Kalmykia

Project 1331M ship. Photo from atrinaflot.narod.ru

MPK-229 Kalmykia is a Project 1331M Small ASW Ship (SAS).

REGISTRATION

Baltic Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The ship was laid down on February 23, 1988 at Peene-Werft shipyard (Wolgast, GDR); launched on January 30, 1989; commissioned on December 29, 1990. The ship obtained a name of Kalmykia on April 19, 1996 as Republic of Kalmykia took patronage over her.

MILESTONES

In 1992 and 1993 being a part of ASW attack group, the ship won Navy Commander's Prize for ASW training.

In May 2000 being a part of Baltic Fleet's task unit the ship took part in remembrance ceremony devoted to the crew of Soviet submarine S-8 scuppered at the Baltic Sea in August 1941.

In June 2007 the ship participated in the exercise of Baltic Fleet's search and rescue force. The task was to render assistance to submarine in distress.

PERFORMANCE

Speed: 24.5 knots
Operational range: 2,200 miles at 12 knots
Crew: 80 men

DIMENSIONS

Displacement: 935 tonnes
Extreme length: 75.2 meters
Extreme beam: 9.78 meters
Extreme draft: 2.8 meters

PROPULSION

3 diesels M-504A, total power 14,250 shp

ARMAMENT

2 MANPADS Strela-3 or Igla-1 launchers
16 antiaircraft guided missiles 9M32M or 9M313
76-mm gun mount AK-176
30-mm 6-barelled gun mount AK-630
2 coupled 533-mm torpedo tubes
2 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 antisubmarine rocket launchers
96 RGB-60 depth charge rockets
2 release tracks

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