Project 1205

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Project 1205
1205 as a museum ship in Moscow
1205 as a museum ship in Moscow
Ship data
country Soviet UnionSoviet Union (naval war flag) Soviet Union
Ship type Landing craft
Shipyard More, Feodosia
Gorky, Zelenodolsk
Almaz, Leningrad
Construction period 1969 to 1976
Units built 29
period of service 1969 to 1990s
Ship dimensions and crew
length
21.4 m ( Lüa )
width 8.4 m
Draft Max. 0.5 m
displacement 27 t
 
crew 4th
Machine system
machine 2 × TWD-10M - gas turbine
1 × ТWD-10
Machine
performance 		3 × 780 PS (574 kW)
Top
speed 		50 kn (93 km / h)
propeller 2 drive propellers, 2 lift propellers
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 40 soldiers
Armament
  • 2 × 1 PKT 7.62 mm MG
  • 4 × 1 BP30 30mm grenade launcher
Sensors

Navigation radar

Project 1205 , with the code name “Skat” (Russian “Скат”; NATO designation: Gus class ), was a class of small air cushions - landing craft of the Soviet Navy , which was developed during the Cold War .

construction

Project 1205
The landing of Soviet marines with several Project 1205 boats is shown in this propaganda film from 1975.

Project 1205 was designed to drop soldiers on undefended stretches of beach. The boats had a deck in the front part of the ship on which up to 40 soldiers could be carried. A small steering position was mounted on the roof of this troop deck. The machinery with the gas turbines was installed in the rear third of the ship class. The TWD-10 turbine, which stood on the longitudinal axis of the boats, sucked in the air directly behind the steering position on the weather deck and pressed it downwards. Two smaller variants of the turbine of the type TWD-10M operated the propellers.

There was no ramp for entering or leaving the boats, but two hatches each on the port and starboard sides of the troop deck and another one in front of the steering position. The soldiers climbed from the troop deck over a ladder onto the weather deck of Project 1205 and then jumped ashore. The hull was made of aluminum and offered minimal ballistic protection. Two PKT machine guns and four BP-30 grenade launchers could be used for defense.

units

29 vehicles of Project 1205 were built by the Feodosiya , Zelenodolsk and Leningrad shipyards between 1969 and 1976. The vehicles were given numbers rather than names and the prefix “D” (Russian “д”).

literature

  • Ю.В.Апальков: Корабли ВМФ СССР. Том IV - Десантные и минно-тральные корабли. Saint Petersburg, 2007, ISBN 978-5-8172-0135-2 . (Russian)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The code name was also used for the submarine type Project 670 .