MPK-224 Aleksin

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

MPK-224 Aleksin is a Project 1331M Small ASW Ship (SAS).

REGISTRATION

Baltic Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The ship was laid down on February 28, 1987 at Peene-Werft shipyard (Wolgast, GDR); launched on March 30, 1988; commissioned on April 21, 1989. The ship is under patronage of town Aleksin, Tula region.

MILESTONES

In 1990 and 1993 being a part of ASW attack group, the ship won Navy Commander's Prize for ASW training.

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
Osa-MA SAM launcher
2 coupled 533-mm torpedo tubes
2 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 antisubmarine rocket launchers
96 RGB-60 depth charge rockets
2 release tracks