Project 775
Project 775 Kaliningrad (2004)
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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
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
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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
- ^ 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).
- ↑ a b Project 775 at russianships.info (English)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Ropucha Class - Project 775. fas.org, September 7, 2000, accessed on September 27, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b Russia prepares captured in Crimea landing ship to combat use. Private website, accessed December 6, 2016
- ↑ Full control in the Bosphorus: Russian ship escorted by Turkish coast guard. sputnik.de, March 10, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Search in the Atlantic: First indications of missing freighter "Arctic Sea". In: Spiegel Online. August 14, 2009, accessed November 23, 2016 .
Web links
- 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)