Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
 Bezzavetnyy is closest to the camera, the cruiser Zhdanov in the middle and the submarine tender Magomed Gadzhiev in the rear
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| History | |
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| Name | Bezzavetnyy |
| Ordered | 4 July 1973 |
| Builder | Zaliv Shipbuilding yard (Kerch) |
| Yard number | 14 |
| Launched | 7 May 1977 |
| Commissioned | 17 February 1978 |
| Decommissioned | 8 September 1997 |
| Fate | Transferred to Ukraine on 1 August 1997 |
 Ukraine | |
| Name | Dnipropetrovsk |
| Acquired | 1 August 1997 |
| Decommissioned | October 2002 |
| Renamed | 1997 |
| Reclassified | "Technical property" (2002) |
| Identification | U134 |
| Fate | Scuttled on 12 May 2005 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Burevestnik-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,300 tons standard, 3,575 tons full load |
| Length | 405.3 ft (123.5 m) |
| Beam | 46.3 ft (14.1 m) |
| Draft | 15.1 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezzavetnyy of the Burevestnik-class (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.
Service history
[edit]Black Sea incident
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On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Vladimir Bogdashin, the ship intentionally[1][2] nudged the U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.
Ukrainian service
[edit]In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.
Fate
[edit]Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1988: радянський фрегат атакує американський крейсер під Ялтою" [1988: A Soviet frigate attacks an American cruiser near Yalta]. Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 12 February 2011.
- ^ Gunnermatecg48 (20 August 2008). "1988 Soviet ramming USS Yorktown CG-48 in Black Sea". YouTube.
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Bibliography
[edit]- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
External links
[edit]- Zablotsky, V.P. "Военно-морская операция в районе Фороса" [Naval operations in the Foros region]. Военно-морская коллекция (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
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