| The Grisha class antisubmarine ship is designed to to find and destroy
high-speed enemy submarines and warships escort convoys in the near sea zone.
The first series of Grishas was built from 1968-74, but successive improvements
to the design led to four discrete versions, three for the navy and one sub-class
for the KGB coastal patrols. Classified by the Russians as small anti-submarine
ships, the Grishas pack a heavy anti-submarine armament into a relatively small
hull. Combined with a respectable anti-aircraft armament, this makes the Grishas
much more effective than the profusion of older escort vessels that were retired
in the late 1980s. Large ASW corvette MPK-127 laid down 16 September 1974
at the Leninskaya Kuznitsa Shipyard, Kiev (yard No.102), launched 10 July 1976,
commissioned 27 December 1976. From 26.08.1980 - Komsomolets Gruzii, from
15.02.1992 - MPK-127. MPK-127 was decommissioned and excluded from the lists
of the Black Sea Fleet on 22 June 2005 and scrapped. | Specifications |
| Displacement (tons): | | Standard: | 835 |
| Full load: | 990 |
| Dimensions (m): | | Length: | 71,07 |
| Beam: | 10,15 |
| Draft: | 3,54 | | Speed
(knots): | 32 | | Range: | 4000
nmi (10 knots), 2700 nmi (14 knots), 950 nmi (27 knots) | | Autonomy
(days): | 7 | | Propulsion: | 1x18000
hp M-8 gas turbine, 2x10000 hp M-507A diesels, 3 fixed pitch propellers, 1x500
kW ASDG-500 diesel generator, 1x300 kW DGN-300 diesel generator, 1x200 kW DG-200
diesel generator | | Armament: | 1x2
ZIF-122 4K33 Osa-M SAM system launcher (20 9M33 missiles) - 4R-33 fire control
system
1x2 57 mm AK-725 (1100 rounds) - MR-103 Bars fire control system
1x6
30 mm AK-630 (2000 rounds)
2x2 533 mm DTA-53-1124 torpedo tubes (4 TEST-71,
TEST-71M, SET-65, SET-53, SET-53M, 53-65K torpedoes) - Drakon fire control system
2x12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 (96 RGB-60) - Burya fire control system
12 BB-1 or
BPS depth charges
18 mines | | Electronics: |
MR-302 Rubka air/surface search radar, Bizan-4B reconnaissance radar , Donnavigation
radar , Nickel IFF, ARP-50R radio direction finder, MG-322T Amgun sonar, MG-339T
Shelonsonar, MG-26 Khosta underwater communication system, KMG-12 Kassandrasonar,
MGS-407K sonar, MI-110K and MI-110R anti-submarine search station |
| Complement: | 83 (9 officers) |
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