Russian destroyer Sovremennyy

Sovremennyy was the lead ship of Sovremenny-class destroyer of the Russian Navy.[1]

Sovremennyy underway in 1982
History
Russia
Name:
  • Sovremennyy
  • (Современный)
Namesake: Sovremennyy
Builder: Severnaya Verf, Saint Petersburg
Laid down: 3 March 1976
Launched: 18 November 1978
Commissioned: 25 December 1980
Decommissioned: 15 November 1998
Homeport: Kaliningrad
Identification: Pennant number: 402, 420, 426, 431, 441, 618, 670, 680, 753, 760
Fate: Scrapped in Murmansk, 2003
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

Sovremennyy was laid down on 3 March 1976 and launched on 18 November 1978 by Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg.[2] She was commissioned on 25 Decembee 1980.

Since January 15, 1985, the ship has been on combat service in the Mediterranean Sea together with the Kiev aircraft cruiser, the Vice-Admiral Drozd missile cruiser, the Marshal Timoshenko and the Otchayannyy destroyer.

During a friendly visit to the port of Split (Yugoslavia), she damaged the left propeller

On June 4, 1985, she has traveled during the 19985 nautical miles campaign, returned to Severomorsk.

During the competitive artillery fire of the ships of the KUG of the 56th destroyer brigade of the 7th operational squadron, which was held on October 9, 1986, she won the Navy Main Committee Prize for artillery training as part of the KUG.[3]

On December 15, 1988, Sovremennyy was put into the 2nd category reserve.

On May 25, 1989, she was delivered for repair and modernization to the shipyard No. 35 (Rosta), however, due to insufficient funding, the modernization was extremely slow.

As a result, after 1991 it was decided to exclude the ship from the lists of the fleet, which happened on November 15, 1998, on the same day the naval flag was lowered on the ship.

The technical readiness of the destroyer on August 1, 1997 was 72% and by the time of decommissioning at 86%. Disassembled in Murmansk in 2003.[4]

  • Sovremennyy underway in April 1982.
  • Sovremennyy underway in August 1982.
  • Sovremennyy underway in August 1982.
  • Sovremennyy underway in August 1982.
  • Sovremennyy underway in August 1982.
  • Sovremennyy underway in September 1982.
  • Sovremennyy with a Tomcat F-14A on 15 April 1986.
  • Sovremennyy underway in 1986.

References
  1. "Destroyers - Project 956". russianships.info. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  2. "Sovremenny". web.archive.org. 2005-11-04. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  3. Pavlov, A. S. (2000). 1st rank destroyers. Yakutsk: Sakhapoligrafizdat. p. 14.
  4. Pavlov, A. S. (2000). 1st rank destroyers. Yakutsk: Sakhapoligrafizdat. p. 15.
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