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Gnevnyy

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Гневный [Gnevnyy]		1401	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	16.11.1957	30.11.1958	10.1.1960	stricken 4.1988
Упорный [Upornyy]		1402	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	21.9.1958	14.10.1959	3.12.1960	accommodation hulk 6.1991
Бойкий [Boykiy]		1403	445 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	2.4.1959	15.12.1959	26.6.1961	stricken 2.1988
Гремящий [Gremiashchiy]		771	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	25.2.1958	30.4.1959	30.6.1960	test vessel 7.1987
Жгучий [Zhguchiy]		772	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	23.6.1958	14.10.1959	23.12.1960	stricken 7.1987
Зоркий [Zorkiy]		773	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	17.4.1959	30.4.1960	30.9.1961	stricken 6.1993
Дерзкий [Derzkiy]		774	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	10.10.1959	4.2.1960	30.12.1961	stricken 4.1990
Гордый [Gordyy]		90	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	5/1959	24.5.1960	6.2.1961	stricken 7.1987
Храбрый [Khrabryy]		91	199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	1959	1961	---	completed as power plant 1969

Technical data

Data variant	as completed (pr. 57bis)	as rebuilt (pr. 57A)
Displacement standard, t	3500	3700
Displacement full, t	4192	4500
Length, m	138.9	140.6
Breadth, m	14.8	14.8
Draught, m	4.47	4.65
No of shafts	2	2
Machinery	2 TV-8 geared steam turbines sets, 4 KV-76 boilers	TV-8 geared steam turbines, 4 KV-76 boilers
Power, h. p.	85000	85000
Max speed, kts	34.5	32
Fuel, t	oil	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3060(18)	3060(18)
Armament	2 x 1 KSShch SSM (12 KSShch), 4 x 4 - 57/75 ZIF-75, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Uragan-2 ASWRL, helodeck for Ka-15	1 x 2 M-1 Volna SAM (32 V-600(4K91)), 2 x 4 - 57/75 ZIF-75, 2 x 1 - 45/69 21KM, 4 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 3 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, helodeck for Ka-15
Electronic equipment	1401-1403, 771-773, 90, 91: MR-300 Angara, Neptun, Zalp-Shch, 2x Fut-B radars, Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4A, Krab-11, Krab-12 ECM suitess, Planshet-57 CCS 774: MR-300 Angara, Uspekh, Neptun, Zalp-Shch, 2x Fut-B radars, Gerkules-2M sonar, Bizan'-4A, Krab-11, Krab-12 ECM suitess, Planshet-57 CCS	MR-310 Angara-A, 2x Volga, Yatagan, Fut-B, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, MG-312 Titan, MGS-407K sonars, MI-110R radiation wake detector, 2x MRP-11-14, Krab-11, Krab-12 ECM suites, 2x PK-2 decoy launchers
Complement	284	297

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Project history

These were the first Soviet missile warships. Their TTZ was signed by Admiral Kuznetsov on 25 July 1955. They were apparently designed from the beginning as missile ships; it is not clear why their designation was Project 57bis rather than Project 53. Project 57 may have been an alternative configuration, not yet described. Basic design work was completed at the end of December 1956, but the new navy commander, Admiral Gorshkov, ordered some changes the following February. Note that thid project predates the Project 56M. The design missions were to engage enemy surface ships and to attack shore targets, both using the new KSShch missile.

After a series of model tests of hulls large enough to accommodate the new missile system, a scaled-up Project 56 was chosen, but modified to operate in a chemical or nuclear environment, with airtight remote-control cabs in the engine and boiler rooms. The turbines were modified for better efficiency.

Each of two KSShch missile magazines held six weapons. In addition, one missile could be carried in the box launcher and another in the magazine, but in that case it was impossible to withdraw a faulty missile before launch. Compared to the Kiparis missile control system of Project 56M, the Topol' system in these ships had an improved computer and added a sighting/range-finding station; there was also an auxiliary control system, Kedr. Topol' used the same Zalp-Shch radar as the earlier Kiparis. It was to have incorporated the new Rangout radar, but that was not ready in time (the radar ended up in missile boats). Using an auxiliary system, the ship could engage two targets simultaneously, firing the missiles 5 to 15sec apart. Plans called for a television receiver (Grusha) by means of which the ship could receive target designation data from an aircraft beyond the horizon, but it was never reliable enough to be worth installing. Presumably it was the conceptual forebear of the system used with P-35. The planned targeting aircraft was probably a Ka-15 helicopter, for which a pad was built aft, and for which the ship carried enough fuel for five flights. In fact the helicopter pad proved unsatisfactory (without the television, it could be used only for visual observation) and was little used; saluting guns were mounted on the pad.

As in the 56M missile destroyer, torpedo tubes were placed on the sides of the ship (but its greater beam made it possible to provide triple rather than twin tubes). The light anti-aircraft armament was arranged in a rhomboid similar to that of Project 56.

These ships were soon considered obsolescent; they lacked any effective means of self-defence and their KSShch missile was ineffective. On 30 April 1965 they were ordered converted to ASW ships, presumably as part of the shift towards ASW then in progress. The new version was Project 57A.

Modernizations

1968, Gremiashchiy; 1969, Zhguchiy; 1971, Zorkiy; 1972, Derzkiy; 1973, Boykiy, Gnevnyy; 1975, Gordyy; 1978, Upornyy were rebuilt as Project 57A with data as given in the table.

Naval service

These ships were rated as destroyers, since May 1966 large missile ships, since 1970-1974 large ASW ships, some since August 1977 were rated again as large missile ships.