Project 775

Project 775

Project 775 Kaliningrad (2004)

Ship data country  Soviet Union Russia   Ship type Landing ship Shipyard Stocznia Północna, Gdansk Construction period 1974 to 1991 Units built 28 period of service Since 1975

Ship dimensions and crew length 112.5 m ( Lüa ) width 15 m Draft Max. 3.7 m displacement Standard: 2,900 t, maximum: 4,400 t   crew 87 men

Machine system machine 2 × 16 ZBV 40/48 diesel Machine performance 2 × 9,600 PS (7,061 kW) Top speed 17.5 kn (32 km / h) propeller 2

Armament All ships: 2 × 4-way starter for Strela-3 2 × 20-fold starter 122 mm A-215 for degree M Project 775 mod. I and II 2 × 2 57mm L / 70 AK-725 Project 775 mod. III 1 × 2 76mm L / 59 AK-176 2 × 1 30 mm L / 54 AK-630 M

Project 775 ( Russian Большой десантный корабль, Large amphibious landing ship (German transcription Bolshoi Dessantny Korabl ), NATO designation: Ropucha class ) is a class of large landing ships of the Soviet and later the Russian Seekriegsflotte and the Ukrainian naval forces , from 28 units between 1975 and entered service in 1992.

history

The ships developed in the 1960s were built at the Polish Stocznia Północna shipyard in Gdańsk from 1974 . From 1975 they were accepted into the service of the Soviet Navy . They served as replacements for the ships in Project 1171 . The ships were delivered in three batches, initially 12 ships from the first batch from 1974 to 1978, then 13 ships from the 775 mod project from 1980 to 1988. II and from 1988 to 1992 3 ships of the project 775 mod. III.

Technical specifications

A PT-76 floating tank leaves the landing ship through the bow gate

Project 775 was designed for beachfront landings. The load capacity is around 480 tons . Two cargo holds with dimensions of 55 m × 6.5 m × 4.5 m and 40 m × 4.5 m × 4.5 m are available. Up to thirteen tanks or armored personnel carriers or 20 trucks and 150 marines can be carried.

Three versions of Project 775 were built, which differ in terms of armament and sensor equipment. All ships carried two launchers for four Strela-3 anti-aircraft missiles and two Grade M multiple missile launchers. There were differences in:

• Project 775 mod. I : with two 57mm L / 70 AK-725 turrets
• Project 775 mod. II : like mod. I, but with modified sensor equipment with an MR-302 "Rubka" radar
• Project 775 mod. III : with a 76 mm L / 59 AK-176 turret and two 30 mm L / 54 AK-630 M automatic cannons and with an MR-352 “positive” radar

NATO distinguished only two classes: Ropucha I for Project 775 mod. I and II as well as Ropucha II for project 775 mod. III.

Units / whereabouts

Project 775 mod. II Kaliningrad 2012

Project 775 mod. III Koroljow in Saint Petersburg 2015. The two AK-630M towers can be seen behind the structure.

Project 775 mod. III Korolev 2015, forecastle with AK-176 turret

Project 775 mod. III Kostjantyn Olschanskyj

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , 17 of 25 ships from Project 775 I, II and III were kept in service with the Russian Navy, the other eight were put in reserve and have now been partially scrapped.

In 1979, BDK-119 was sold to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen . The Kostjantyn Olschanskyj was handed over to Ukraine by the Black Sea Fleet in 1991 , but captured by troops of the Russian Federation during the Crimean crisis in 2014 and later put back into service with the Black Sea Fleet.

Project 775

country	Surname	In service	status
Soviet Union	(SDK-47) BDK-47	July 1, 1974	December 17, 1994 decommissioned, scrapped
Soviet Union	(SDK-48) BDK-48	June 30, 1975	Decommissioned July 5, 1994
Soviet Union	(SDK-63) BDK-63	June 30, 1975	Decommissioned July 5, 1994
Soviet Union	(SDK-90) BDK-90	November 30, 1975	Decommissioned July 5, 1994
Soviet Union	(SDK-91) BDK-91 Olenegorski Gornjak	June 30, 1976	on stand mod. II brought
Soviet Union	(SDK-181) BDK-181	October 9, 1976	Decommissioned July 5, 1994
Soviet Union	(SDK-182) BDK-182 Kondopoga	November 30, 1976	on stand mod. II brought
Soviet Union	(SDK-183) BDK-183 Kotlas	March 15, 1977	June 22nd, 2005 out of service
Soviet Union	(SDK-197) BDK-197	September 21, 1977	Decommissioned July 5, 1994
Soviet Union	(SDK-200) BDK-200	17th December 1977	on stand mod. II brought out of service June 30, 1993
Soviet Union	(SDK-55) BDK-55 Aleksandr Otrakowski	July 30, 1978
Yemen	(SDK-119) BDK-119	February 27, 1979	September 1979 to Yemen as 139 . Out of service since 2002, then as a merchant ship Sam of Yemen . Sank in Aden in 2018.

Project 775 mod. II

country	Surname	In service	status
Russia	BDK-14	August 31, 1981	May 3, 2002 decommissioned, scrapped
Russia	BDK-32	1975	scrapped
Russia	BDK-43 Minsk	May 30, 1983	scrapped
Russia	BDK-45 Georgi Pobedonosez	March 5th 1985	active, Northern Fleet
Russia	BDK-46 Novocherkassk	November 30, 1987	active, Black Sea Fleet
Russia	BDK-55 A. Otrakowski	1977	active, Black Sea Fleet
Russia	BDK-58 Kaliningrad	December 9, 1984	active, Baltic fleet
Russia	BDK-60	1978	scrapped
Russia	BDK-64 Tsesar Kunikov	September 30, 1986	active, Baltic fleet
Russia	BDK-67 Jamal	April 30, 1988	active, Black Sea Fleet
Russia	BDK-91 Olenegorski Gornjak	1982	active, Northern Fleet
Russia	BDK-98 Admiral Nevelskoy	September 28, 1982	active, Pacific Fleet
Russia	BDK-105	March 2, 1982	Decommissioned April 10, 2002, scrapped
Russia	BDK-101 Osljabja	19th December 1981	active, Pacific Fleet
Russia	BDK-121 Alexander Shabalin	December 31, 1985	active
Russia	BDK-182 Babruysk	1983	active
Russia	BDK-200 Muchtar Awesow	1984	active
Russia	Nikolai Korsakov	1984	active
Ukraine	BDK-56 Konstantin Olschanski	1985	1991 to Ukraine as U402 Kostjantyn Olschanskyj . Captured by Russian troops in 2014.

Project 775 mod. III

country	Surname	In service	status
Russia	BDK-54 Azov	October 12, 1990	active, Black Sea Fleet
Russia	BDK-11 Pereswet	April 10, 1991	active, Pacific Fleet
Russia	BDK-61 Korolyov	July 10, 1991	active, Baltic fleet

Calls

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The ships of Project 775 have been involved in active missions several times in their history. When the civil war broke out in Yemen in 1986, these ships were used to evacuate numerous Soviet citizens from the port city of Aden .

In 1999, 260 vehicles and 650 soldiers were transferred to the Russian peacekeeping forces in Albania .

In 2008 two of the ships were involved in the occupation of the Georgian port city of Poti . Some ships serve to supply the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands and the Sakhalin Island and are therefore in constant use.

In August 2009, the Azov , Novocherkassk and Yamal were involved in the search for the missing cargo ship Arctic Sea , along with a frigate and two nuclear submarines .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Richard Shape: Jane's fighting ships 1998-1999 . 101st edition. Jane's Information Group, Alexandria, USA 1998, ISBN 0-7106-1795-X , pp. 586, 740 and 871 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Project 775 at russianships.info (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ю.В.Апальков: Корабли ВМФ СССР. Том IV - Десантные и минно-тральные корабли. Saint Petersburg, 2007, ISBN 978-5-8172-0135-2 , p. 22 and following
4. ↑ Project 775 Ropucha class Tank Landing ship. Federation of American Scientist, September 7, 2000, archived from the original on December 25, 2008 ; accessed on August 14, 2009 . 
5. ^ Ropucha Class - Project 775. fas.org, September 7, 2000, accessed on September 27, 2015 (English). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Russia prepares captured in Crimea landing ship to combat use. Private website, accessed December 6, 2016
7. ↑ Full control in the Bosphorus: Russian ship escorted by Turkish coast guard. sputnik.de, March 10, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Search in the Atlantic: First indications of missing freighter "Arctic Sea". In: Spiegel Online. August 14, 2009, accessed November 23, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Project 775  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Project 775 at russianships.info (English)
• Amphibious Ships: BDK-54 ('Ropucha-II') class large landing ships (3 ships) (Project 775M) / 'Ropucha-I' class large landing ships (13 ships) (Project 775). In: World Navies Today: Russian Littoral Warfare Ships. hazegray.org, October 18, 2001, accessed September 27, 2015 . 

literature

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