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Vitse-admiral Drozd 1976  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Адмирал Зозуля [Admiral Zozulia]		791	Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	26.7.1964	17.10.1965	8.10.1967	stricken 7.1994
Владивосток [Vladivostok]		792	Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	24.12.1964	1.8.1966	1.8.1969	stricken 1.1991
Вице-адмирал Дрозд [Vitse-admiral Drozd]		793	Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	26.10.1965	18.11.1966	27.12.1968	stricken 7.1990
Севастополь [Sevastopol]		794	Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	8.6.1966	28.4.1967	25.9.1969	stricken 12.1989

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	5340
Displacement full, t	7170
Length, m	156.2
Breadth, m	16.8
Draught, m	5.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 TV-12 geared steam turbines sets, 4 KVN-98/64 boilers
Power, h. p.	92000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(18)
Armament	2 x 2 P-35 SSM (4 4K44), 2 x 2 M-1 Volna-M SAM (64 V-601(4K91)), 2 x 2 - 57/50 AK-725, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, 2 x 6 RBU-1000 Smerch-3 ASWRL, helicopter deck for 1 Ka-25
Electronic equipment	MR-500 Kliver, MR-310 Angara-A, Uspekh-U, Volga, 2x Yatagan, MR-103 Bars radars, MG-312M Titan, MG-311 Vychegda sonars, MI-110R radiation wake detector, MI-110K thermal wake detector, 2x Gurzuf, 2x Gurzuf-1, MRP-15-16 Zaliv, MRP-11-12, MRP-13-14 ECM suites, 2x PK-2 decoy launchers, Planshet-1134 CCS
Complement	312

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Project history

These four ships were the remnant of a large anti-ship rocket-cruiser (RKR) programme, slopped when Soviet priorities shifted to ASW. Alltough the ships were still armed with P-35 anti-ship missiles, they were reclassified BPK (large ASW ships). The programme initially called for a brigade of seven heavy ASuW ships (armed with long-range missiles) plus two brigades (fourteen ships) of light ASuW ships (armed with shorter-range missiles). All were designated project 934: the light-missile ships were 934A. Khrushchev rejected a I proposed flagship version, presumably 934K, but did not change the numbers (which would have amounted to a leader plus three pairs of ships).

The main battery was to have been a new ramjet Bazalt missile, which was considered four ones as effective as the slower P-35. Unfortunately development was protracted, and P-35 had to be substituted. Compared to project 58, this class showed increased emphasis on self-defence, with a second Volna SAM launcher and twin 57mm guns. For the first time in Soviet practice, the targeting helicopter aft was provided with a hangar.

The abortive Project 934K would have been a stretched hull with an enlarged helicopter deck aft (about twice the length and width of the deck actually used), accommodating five helicopters (mainly to data-link beyond the horizon to other ships of the attack group). Armament would have matched that of Project 934.

The effect of the shift to ASW was to redesignate the first four ships and to stop construction of other ships of the series while they were heavily modified.

Modernizations

early 1970s, all: - 2 x 2 P-35 SSM (4 4K44); + 2 x 2 Progress SSM (4 4M44)

1970s, all: + Don radar (2nd)

1974, Admiral Zozulia: + MR-212 Vaygach radar

1976, Vitse-admiral Drozd; 1991, Admiral Zozulia: + 4 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630, 2x MR-123 Vympel-A radars

Naval service

No significant events.