The Sovremenny Class destroyer is the main anti-surface combatant of the Russian Navy. The Soviet designation is Project 956 Sarych (Buzzard).The first Sovremenny class destroyer was commissioned in 1980. A total of 18 have been built for the Russian NavyThese ships have a maximum displacement of 8480t. Dimensions are: Length 156 m, Beam 17.3 m and draught is 6.5 m.They are armed with an anti-submarine helicopter, 48 air defence missiles, eight anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, mines, long-range guns and a sophisticated electronic warfare system.
The ship is outfitted with the Raduga Moskit anti-ship missile system with two four-cell launchers installed port and starboard of the forward island and set at an angle about 15°
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The ship carries a total of eight Moskit 3M80E missiles, NATO designation SS-N-22 Sunburn. The missile is a sea-skimming missile with velocity of Mach 2.5, armed with a 300 kg high-explosive or a nuclear 200 kt warhead. The range is from 10 to 120 km. The launch weight is 4,000 kg.
Two Shtil surface-to-air missile systems are installed, each on the raised deck behind the twin-barrelled 130 mm guns. The ship carries 48 Shtil missiles.
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The ship's 130 mm guns are the AK-130-MR-184. The system includes a computer control system with electronic and television sighting. The gun can be operated in fully automatic mode from the radar control system, under autonomous control using the turret mounted Kondensor optical sighting system and can also be laid manually. Rate of fire is between 20 and 35 rounds/min.
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The ship has four six-barrelled 30 mm AK-630 artillery systems. The maximum rate of fire is 5,000 rounds/min. Range is up to 4,000 m for low flying anti-ship missiles and 5,000 m for light surface targets. The gun is outfitted with radar and television detection and tracking.
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The destroyer has two double 533 mm torpedo tubes...
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...and two six-barrel RBU-1000 anti-submarine rocket launchers, with 48 rockets. Range is 1,000 m The rocket is armed with a 55 kg warhead.
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The Project 956 destroyer is fitted with an electronic countermeasures system and carries a store of 200 rockets for the two decoy dispensers, model PK-2.
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The ship is equipped with three navigation radars, an air target acquisition radar, and fire control radars for the 130 mm gun and the 30 mm gun.
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General characteristics
Displacement: 6200 tons standard, 7940 tons full load
Length: 156 m
Beam: 17.3 m
Draught: 6.5 m
Machinery: 2 shaft steam turbines, 4 boilers, 100,000 hp
Speed: 32 knots
Range: 14,000 nm at 14 kt
Armament: 2x4 SS-N-22 SUNBURN Moskit SSM, 2x1 SA-N-7 SAM, 4 (2x2) 130 mm guns, 4-30 mm AK-630 Gatling guns, 4 (2x2) 553 mm Torpedo tubes, 2 x RBU-1000 ASW rockets, 1 Ka-27 Helicopter
Complement: 350
Unit cost: 600 million US$ per ship is the price paid by China for the 956EM. |
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