| Alesha-class minelayer | |
|---|---|
| File:Alesha class minelayer.jpg | |
| Class overview | |
| Operators: |
 USSR |
| Built: | 1967-1969[1] |
| In commission: | 1967 - ? |
| Completed: | Three |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Minelayer |
| Displacement: |
3,000 short tons (2,700 t) standard 3,700 short tons (3,400 t) full load |
| Length: | 98 metres (322 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.5 metres (44 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.4 metres (18 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 diesels, 2 shafts producing 35,000 brake horsepower (26,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Range: | 4,000 miles (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Search radar: Strut Curve Fire Control radar: Muff Cob Navigation: Don 2 radar IFF: High Pole B |
| Armament: |
Forward-mounted quad 57 millimetres (2.2 in) gun 4 stern-mounted mine tracks equipped with 300 mines |
The Alesha class minelayers, known in the USSR as Project 317, was a designation for a class of three ships used by the Soviet Navy in the 1960s.[2] The ships were named Pripyat, Sukhona and Vychegda, but were assigned the reporting name Alesha by NATO.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Moore, John (1984). Jane's All The World's Fighting Ships. Jane's Publishing. p. 539. ISBN 0710607741.
- ↑ "Russian-Ships.Info". http://russian-ships.info/eng/warships/project_317.htm. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
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