Bistry

Bistry. Photo: atrinaflot.narod.ru

Bistry is a Project 956 Destroyer.

REGISTRATION

Pacific Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The destroyer was laid down in 1985 at Zhdanov Shipyard No 190 (now called Severnaya Verf Shipyard) in Leningrad; launched in 1987; commissioned in 1989.

MILESTONES

On July 10, 2003 the ship's stoker got electric shock while installing portable lights and died at the scene.

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.