Russian destroyer Admiral Zakharov

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Admiral Zakharov in 1990
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Name
  • Admiral Zakharov
  • (Адмирал Захаров)
Namesake Mikhail Zakharov
Builder Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad
Laid down16 October 1981
Launched4 November 1982
Commissioned30 December 1983
Decommissioned2002
Homeport Vladivostok
Identification Pennant number: 443, 464, 472, 501, 513, 541
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and type Udaloy-class destroyer 7,570 tons full load [1]
Length163 m (535 ft)
Beam19.3 m (63 ft)
Draught6.2 m (20 ft)
Propulsion2 shaft COGAG, 2× D090 6.7 MW and 2× DT59 16.7 gas turbines, 120,000 hp 89.456 MW
Speed35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range10,500 nmi (19,400 km; 12,100 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement300
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Radar: MR-760MA Fregat-MA/Top Plate 3-D air search radar and MR-320M Topaz-V/Strut Pair air/surface search radar
  • Sonar: Horse Tail LF VDS sonar and Horse Jaw bow mounted LF sonar
  • Fire Control: 2 MR-360 Podkat/Cross Sword SA-N-9 SAM control, 2 3P37/Hot Flash SA-N-11 SAM control, Garpun-BAL SSM targeting
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • Bell Squat jammer
  • Bell Shroud intercept
  • Bell Crown intercept
  • 2 × PK-2 decoy RL
  • 10 × PK-10 decoy RL in later ships
Armament
Aircraft carried2 × Ka-27 series helicopters
Aviation facilitiesHelipad and hangar

Admiral Zakharov was a Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy. [2] She was named after Soviet admiral Mikhail Zakharov.

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Development and design

Project 1155 dates to the 1970s when it was concluded that it was too costly to build large-displacement, multi-role combatants. The concept of a specialized surface ship was developed by Soviet designers.

They are 156 m in length, 17.3 m in beam and 6.5 m in draught. [3]

Construction and career

Admiral Zakharov was laid down on 16 October 1981, and launched on 4 November 1982 by Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad. She was commissioned on 30 December 1983. On January 18, 1984, the ship was included in the Pacific Fleet. The naval ensign was raised on 25 March 1984.

In 1985, the Admiral Zakharov was considered the best ship of the Baltic Fleet as a part of the Baltic squadron of heterogeneous forces (commander - 2nd rank captain Viktor Vladimirovich Onofriychuk).

In 1987, she made the transition to the Pacific Fleet. From 21 to 25 October 1987, she paid visits to Luanda in Angola, then from November 6 to November 11 to Maputo in Mozambique, from November 17 to November 23 to Victoria, Seychelles, and from November 29 to 3 December the ship made a friendly visit to Bombay in India.

Between 12–16 May 1988 as part of a detachment of ships under the flag of the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral G. A. Khvatov, the ship engaged in technical cooperation and an exchange of visits between the ships of the Soviet Navy and the DPRK and also paid an official visit to Wonsan. In the winter of 1988–1989 the ship undertook various tasks of combat service in the Persian Gulf.

In February 1989, the ship, together with floating base Ivan Kolyshkin, the minesweepers Rear Admiral Pershin, Kharkovsky Komsomolets and Vice-Admiral Zhukov, carried out the mission of protecting peaceful USSR shipping in the Persian Gulf zone.

Arriving at the end of 1988, by 23 February 1989, she escorted six convoys of 15 ships (where the commander of the navigational combat unit, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Marchenko, distinguished himself).

For the entire time while the ship was part of the 8th operational squadron (autumn 1988–winter 1989), she escorted 21 ships in eight convoys (according to other sources, 53 ships in 23 convoys). The ship was commanded at this time by the captain of the 2nd rank A. V. Piskunov.

From August 1990 to February 1991, the Admiral Zakharov performed combat service in the South China Sea region, temporarily based on Cam Ranh. During this service the crew installed two 2M-7 type machine-gun mounts with 14.5 mm KPV machine guns on the roof of the bridge.

On 17 February 1992, at 11 hours 42 minutes (local time), [4] at the transition to Vladivostok (in the Ussuri Bay, 7.4 kilometers from Cape Sysoev), [5] in the aft engine room of the Admiral Zakharov there was an explosion of a gas turbine plant, [6] which caused a volumetric fire (due to exceeding the maximum speed of the propeller (TV) turbine of the afterburner, it was destroyed and fragments scattered throughout the aft engine room.

One of the fragments broke through the fuel tank (located under the engine) and the bottom of the ship allowing seawater to enter the tank which forced fuel into the aft engine room. As a result of the fire, one crew member died and five were hospitalized with various injuries and burns. The fight against the fire lasted 30 hours. [7]

Repair of the Admiral Zakharov, which almost completely burned out the aft engine room, was deemed inexpedient, and the ship was written off and placed in 2nd category reserve. On 29 September 1994, she was put into dock In Vladivostok for welding to prepare her for the upcoming transfer to the military property sales department for final disposal.

She was scrapped at the Chazhminsky shipyard in the early 2000s. [8]

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