Russian destroyer Moskovskiy Komsomolets

Moskovskiy Komsomolets is a Sovremenny-class destroyer of the Russian Navy.[1] She was renamed to Nastoycvyy on 15 February 1992.

Nastoychivyy on 8 December 2018
History
Russia
Name:
  • Moskovskiy Komsomolets
  • (Моско́вский комсомо́лец)
Namesake:
Builder: Severnaya Verf, Saint Petersburg
Laid down: 7 April 1988
Launched: 19 January 1991
Commissioned: 30 December 1992
Renamed:
  • Nastoychivyy
  • (Настойчивый)
Homeport: Kaliningrad
Identification: Pennant number: 610, 675, 810
Status: Undergoing overhaul since 2019
General characteristics
Class and type: Sovremenny-class destroyer
Displacement: 6,600 tons standard, 8,480 tons full load
Length: 156 m (511 ft 10 in)
Beam: 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in)
Draught: 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
Propulsion: 2 shaft steam turbines, 4 boilers, 75,000 kW (100,000 hp), 2 fixed propellers, 2 turbo generators,and 2 diesel generators
Speed: 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h; 37.6 mph)
Range:
  • 3,920 nmi (7,260 km; 4,510 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
  • 1,345 nmi (2,491 km; 1,548 mi) at 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement: 350
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar: Air target acquisition radar, 3 × navigation radars, 130 mm gun fire-control radars, 30 mm air-defence gun fire control radar
  • Sonar: Active and passive under-keel sonar
  • ES: Tactical situation plotting board, anti-ship missile fire control system, air defence, missile fire-control system, and torpedo fire control system
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 2 PK-2 decoy dispensers (200 rockets)
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 4 (2 × 2) AK-130 130 mm naval guns
  • 4 × 30 mm AK-630 CIWS
  • Missiles
  • 8 (2 × 4) (SS-N-22 'Sunburn') anti-ship missiles
  • 48 (2 × 24) SA-N-7 'Gadfly' surface-to-air missiles
  • Anti-submarine:
  • 2 × 2 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 6 RBU-1000 300 mm anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried: 1× Ka-27 series helicopter
Aviation facilities: Helipad

Development and design
Main article: Sovremenny-class destroyer

Project began in the late 1960s when it was becoming obvious in the Soviet Navy that naval guns still had an important role particularly in support of amphibious landings, but existing gun cruisers and destroyers were showing their age. A new design was started, employing a new 130 mm automatic gun turret.

The ships are  156 metres (511 ft 10 in) in length, with a beam of 17.3 metres (56 ft 9 in) and a draught of 6.5 metres (21 ft 4 in).

Construction and career

Moskovskiy Komsomolets was laid down on 7 April 1981 and launched on 19 January 1991 by Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg.[2] Before her commissioning on 30 December 1992, she was renamed Nastoychivyy.

On July 31, 2011, the Navy Day, Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev visited the destroyer at the main naval base of the Baltic Fleet in the city of Baltiysk (Kaliningrad region).[3]

Currently, Nastoychivyy is the flagship of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy. For twenty years of combat service, the destroyer was at sea for a total of about two years and covered more than 70,000 nautical miles.[4]

In recent years, the flagship of the Baltic Fleet did not go on long voyages, going through the restoration of technical readiness in Baltiysk. In 2015, he occasionally took part in naval activities: in March he went to sea during a surprise check of the combat readiness of the Western Military District, in July, she took part in a parade in honor of Navy Day. According to the procurement data of 33 shipyard, which serves the ships of the Baltic Fleet, the systems of the main power plant (boiler and turbine), life support equipment, and ship armament are being repaired at the Nastoichivny.[5]

Since 2019, the destroyer has been undergoing scheduled repairs, during which the propulsion system will be replaced and a number of ship's life support systems will be repaired.[6]

  • Nastoychivyy and Lübeck underway on 9 June 2003.
  • Nastoychivyy on 21 February 2008.
  • Nastoychivyy on 21 February 2008.
  • Nastoychivyy on 30 October 2008.
  • Nastoychivyy on 31 July 2011.
  • Vladimir Vysotsky and Dmitry Medvedev onboard Nastoychivyy on 31 July 2011.

References
  1. "Destroyers - Project 956". russianships.info. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  2. "Sovremenny". web.archive.org. 2005-11-04. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  3. "Медведев посетил флагман Балтфлота эскадренный миноносец "Настойчивый"". РИА Новости (in Russian). 2011-07-31. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  4. function.mil.ru https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=11691151@egNews. Retrieved 2020-12-17. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Отставки на Балтийском флоте не коснулись экипажа флагмана". Центральный Военно-Морской Портал. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  6. function.mil.ru https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12215891@egNews. Retrieved 2020-12-17. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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