Ukrainian frigate Mykolaiv

The Ukrainian frigate Mykolaiv was a former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezukoriznennyy of the Burevestnik-class (NATO codename: Krivak I) ship built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.

Bezukoriznennyy in Mediterranean in 1989
History
→ Soviet Union → Russia
Name: Bezukoriznennyy
Ordered: 12 July 1978
Builder: Zaliv Shipbuilding yard (Kerch)
Yard number: 14
Launched: 3 June 1979
Commissioned: 29 December 1979
Fate: Transferred to Ukraine on 1 August 1997
Ukraine
Name: Mykolaiv
Acquired: 1 August 1997
Decommissioned: 2001
Renamed: 1997
Reclassified: "Technical property" (2001)
Identification: U133
Fate: Cut to pieces in 2001 at Vtorchermet
General characteristics
Class and type: Burevestnik-class frigate
Displacement: 3,200 tons
Length: 405.3 ft (123.5 m)
Beam: 46.3 ft (14.1 m)
Draft: 15.1 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:
  • 2 shaft; COGAG
  • 2 x M-8k gas-turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
  • 2 x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), 14,950 shp (11,150 kW)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range: 4,995 nmi (9,251 km; 5,748 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement: 200
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar: 1 MR-755 Fregat-M/Half Plate air/surface search
  • Sonar: Zvezda-2 suite with MGK-345 Bronza/Ox Yoke bow mounted LF, Ox Tail LF VDS
  • Fire Control: Purga ASW combat system, 2 Drakon/Eye Bowl SSM targeting, 2 MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 Start suite with Bell Shroud intercept, Bell Squat jammer, 4 PK-16 decoy RL, 8 PK-10 decoy RL, 2 towed decoys
Armament:
  • 1 × 4 URK-5 (SS-N-14 'Silex') SSM/ASW missiles
  • 2 × Osa-MA (SA-N-4'Gecko') SAM (40 missiles)
  • 4 × 76 mm guns (2×2)
  • 2 × quad 533 mm torpedo tubes

Service history

Ukrainian service

In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Mykolaiv.

Fate

Mykolaiv was decommissioned in 2001 and was cut into pieces at Vtorchermet in 2001.

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