Zhenya-class minesweeper | |
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Class overview | |
Name: | Zhenya class (Project 1252) |
Operators: | Soviet Navy |
Preceded by: | Vanya class minesweeper |
Succeeded by: | Sonya class minesweeper |
Built: | 1960–1973 |
In commission: | 1960–1990s |
Completed: | 3 |
Lost: | 1 |
Retired: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | minesweeper |
Displacement: | 220 tons standard, 300 tons full load |
Length: | 42.4 meters |
Beam: | 7.9 meters |
Draught: | 1.8 meters |
Propulsion: | 2 shaft diesel engines 2400 hp |
Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Range: | 2,400 nautical miles (4,444.8 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Crew: | 40 |
Sensors and processing systems: | radar: Spin trough |
Armament: |
2 – 30mm guns 8 mines Sweeps MT-1, MTSh |
The Zhenya class were a group of three minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1960s.
The ships were a glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) hulled version of the Vanya class minesweeper
Three ships were built:
- Komsmolets Turkmenii - blew up in August 1989
- Komsomolets Buryatii - scrapped 1990s ?
- BT-177 - scrapped 1990s ?
References[]
Gardiner, Robert (ed.) (1995). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
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