The Poti class was the NATO reporting name for
a group of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvettes built for the Soviet Navy. The
Soviet designation was Project 204 small anti-submarine ships. Built in Khabarovsk,
Zelenodolsk and Kerch, these 66 units were specialized in coastal anti-submarines
control and cheaper than the class Petya or Mirka frigates. They had new D-2B
gas turbines, giving them 35 knots, the best speed ever recorded by a Soviet ship
of this type. Two propellers were mounted in tunnels to give a very shallow draught.
Anti-submarine weapons included four single-tube 400-mm torpedo tubes for
SET-40 anti-submarine torpedoes and two RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
(RBU-2500 in Romanian and early Soviet ships). The artillery weapons consisted
only of a AK-725 twin automatic turret 57-mm gun with the Bars fire control radar
(or 57 mm ZIF-31B at early ships). Air/surface situation was carried out with
the help of the Rubka radar, and underwater - with the help of the MG-312 sonar. These
ships served on all four fleets of the USSR Navy: 17 on the Black Sea Fleet, 11
on the Pacific Fleet, 22 on the Baltic Fleet and 11 on the Northtern Fleet.
ASW
corvette MPK-75 laid down 18 October 1959 at the Shipyard No.532, Kerch (yard
No.804), launched 29 April 1961, commissioned 26 October 1962. MPK-75 was
decommissioned and excluded from the lists of the Black Sea Fleet on 26 June 1988
and transferred to the Zaporozye KYuM as training ship No.75. Scrapped 1997. Specifications |
Displacement (tons): | Standard: | 410 |
Full load: | 510 |
Dimensions (m): | Length: | 58,64 |
Beam: | 8,13 |
Draft: | 2,94 | Speed
(knots): | 35 | Range: | 2650
nmi (13,75 knots), 2500 nmi (14 knots), 1500 nmi (17,68 knots), 350 nmi (33 knots) |
Autonomy (days): | 7 |
Propulsion: | 2x15000 hp D-2B
gas turbines, 2x3300 hp M-503V diesels, 2 fixed pitch propellers in hydro-motors,
2x200 kW diesel generators | Armament: |
1x2 57 mm ZIF-31B - 1000 rounds 4x1 400 mm OTA-40-204 torpedo tubes (4 SET-40
torpedoes) – Zummer fire control system 2x16 RBU-2500 Smerch (128 RGB-25)
Smerch-204 control system | Electronics: |
MR-302 Rubka air/surface search radar, Bizan-4B ESM radar system, Donets navigation
radar, Nichrom-M IFF, ARP-50 radio direction finder, MG-312 Titan-2 sonar |
Complement: | 55 |
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