Marshal Shaposhnikov

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Marshal Shaposhnikov is a Project 1155 large ASW ship.

REGISTRATION

Pacific Fleet

CONSTRUCTION, NAME

The ship was laid down in 1983 at Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad; launched in January 1985; commissioned on February 15, 1986.

MILESTONES

In 1987 the ship visited ports of Mozambique, India, Angola and Seychelles.

In 1988-1989 it was deployed at the Persian Gulf.

In 1990 the ship called a visit to North Korean port, evacuated Soviet citizens from Ethiopia.

In 1993-1994 in was under complete overhaul at Dalzavod Shipyard in Vladivostok.

In 1994 it visited Hawaiian Islands; in 2006 – Guam.

In September 2008 a fire occurred on board the ship during exercise in the Sea of Japan. Two seamen died.

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS

Speed: 29.5 knots, cruising – 14 knots
Endurance: 30 days
Crew: 220 men
Total displacement: 7,480 tonnes
Standard displacement: 6,840 tonnes
Length: 163 meters
Beam: 19 meters
Draft: 7.8 meters

PROPULSION

2 shafts, 4 gas turbines, 61,000 shp (2 x 8,000 shp cruise gas turbines and 2 x 22,500 shp boost gas turbines GTU M-8KF)

ARMAMENT

2 x 4-container launchers of Rastrub rocket torpedo system
6-26 mines
8 Kinzhal SAM launchers (64 missiles)
1 coupled 100-mm AK-100 gun mount
4 x 6-barreled 30-mm machineguns AK-630M
RBU-6000 antisubmarine rocket launchers
2 Ka-27 helicopters.