Lebed-class LCAC

Class overview
Lebed class vessel on the deck of a transport ship, 1985
Name:	Lebed class LCAC
Operators:	Soviet Navy Russian Navy
Succeeded by:	Tsaplya class LCAC
Built:	1972–1985
In commission:	1972–
Completed:	20
General characteristics ^[1]
Type:	Air-cushioned landing craft
Displacement:	108 long tons (110 t) standard 114 long tons (116 t) full load
Length:	24.6 m (80 ft 9 in)
Beam:	10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draught:	1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 × 10,000 hp (7,457 kW) MT-70 gas turbines
Speed:	55 knots (102 km/h; 63 mph)
Range:	100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) at 50 kn (93 km/h; 58 mph)
Endurance:	1 day
Capacity:	1 × T-54 main battle tank or 2 × PT-76 light tanks or 2 × BTR-60/70 APCs or 120 troops or 37 tons of cargo
Complement:	6 (2 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	Kivach-2 navigation radar
Armament:	1 × twin 12.7 mm "Utes-M" NSV machine gun

The Kalmar class (Project 1206, NATO reporting name Lebed) are a class of medium-sized assault hovercraft designed for the Soviet Navy. The few remaining craft are operated by the Russian Navy.

Designed by the design bureau wing of Almaz shipbuilding company early in the 1970s, production started in 1972 and continued until 1985 in plants at Leningrad and Theodosia.

Configuration

The Lebed class is the Russian Navy equivalent to the U.S. Navy LCAC, though the U.S. version entered service seven years later. The Lebed class entered service in 1975, and by the early 1990s twenty had been produced. The ship has a bow ramp with a gun on the starboard side and the bridge to port. The Lebed class can be carried by the Ivan Rogov-class landing ship. The type began to be withdrawn following the fall of the Soviet Union, and by 2004 only three remained. Number 533 is in the Northern Fleet, while 639 and 640 took part in the Caspian Sea exercises of 2002.^[2]

Capacity

Each hovercraft can carry up to 40 tons of cargo.

Registry

References

↑ "Air-cushion landing craft - Project 1206". russian-ships.info. 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
↑ "Lebed Class Amphibious Assault Hovercraft Kaspiysk". wikimapia.org. 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.

Saunders, Stephen (RN) Jane's Fighting Ships 2003-2004, ISBN 0-7106-2546-4

Soviet Navy and Russian Navy ship classes after World War II

Aircraft carriers	Moskva OREL¹ Kiev Admiral Kuznetsov Ulyanovsk¹ Project 23000E

Battlecruisers	Kronshtadt ¹ Stalingrad ¹ Kirov

Cruisers	Sverdlov Kynda Kresta I Kresta II Kara Slava

Destroyers	Skoryy Neustrashimy Kotlin Kildin Krupny Kanin Kashin Sovremenny Udaloy Lider

Frigates	Kola Riga Petya Mirka Koni Burevestnik Gepard Neustrashimyy Novik¹ Admiral Grigorovich Admiral Gorshkov

Corvettes	Poti Pauk Parchim Nanuchka Tarantul Bora Grisha Buyan Steregushchy Gremyashchy

P / M / T boats	Kronshtadt Komar Osa Shershen Stenka Turya Matka Muravey Sarancha Svetlyak Rubin

Minesweepers	T43 T58 Yurka Natya Gorya Sasha Vanya Zhenya Sonya Yevgenya Alexandrit

Amphibious ships	Project 1178¹ Ivan Rogov Alligator Ropucha Polnocny Dyugon Ivan Gren Priboj Lavina

Spy ships	Primor'ye Balzam Vishnya Yury Ivanov

Air-cushioned crafts	Gus Lebed Tsaplya Aist Zubr Czilim ²

Patrol icebreakers	Ivan Susanin Purga

Other vessels	SSV-33 Don Ugra Smolnyy Dunay Lun

¹ Cancelled. ² Border Guard service.

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