Soviet frigate Zadornyy

Zadornyy was the last Project 1135 ship laid down.[1] Displacing 2,835 tonnes (2,790 long tons; 3,125 short tons) standard and 3,190 tonnes (3,140 long tons; 3,520 short tons) full load, the vessel was 123 m (404 ft) in length.[2] Power was provided by a combination of two 18,000 horsepower (13,000 kW) M3 and two 6,000 horsepower (4,500 kW) M60 gas turbines, driving two fixed pitch screws, for a design speed of 32 knots (59 km/h).[2]

The ship was designed for anti-submarine warfare around four URPK-3 Metel missiles (NATO reporting name SS-N-14 'Silex'), backed up by 533 mm (21 in) torpedoes and a pair of RBU-6000 213 mm (8 in) anti-submarine rocket launchers. The main armament was upgraded to URPK-5 Rastrub (SS-N-14B) between 11 June 1990 and 23 May 1995.[3]

Zadornyy was accepted into the Northern Fleet on 13 September 1979 as part of the 10th Brigade and was subsequently involved in the Avangard-81, Sever-81 and Okean-83 exercises. As part of operations in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, the ship visited Havana, Cuba, between 28 December 1984 and 2 January 1985 and Algiers, Algeria, between 2 and 6 May 1985. The Cuban visit was repeated in November 1988 when Zadornyy took part in a joint exercise called Sodruzhestvo along with Vice-Admiral Kulakov and Project 641B submarine B-215.[3]

In 1996, the ship took part in the Russian Navy's 300th Anniversary at Arkhangelsk. Zadornyy took part in a number of joint operations with Royal Navy frigates, operating with Iron Duke in the Barents Sea during June 1997, taking part in an August 2001 exercise named Dervish with Campbeltown, and hosting Sutherland on a visit to Murmansk in May 2005.[3]