Mirka-class frigate

Class overview
Mirka I class, project 35 frigate
Name:	Mirka class (project 35 /35M)
Operators:	Soviet Navy
Preceded by:	Petya class
Succeeded by:	Koni class
Built:	1964-1966
Completed:	18
Retired:	18
General characteristics
Type:	Frigate
Displacement:	950 tons (standard) 1,150 tons (full load)
Length:	81.8 m (268 ft 4 in)
Beam:	9.2 m (30 ft 2 in)
Draught:	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft CODAG 2 gas turbines - 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) 2 diesels - 12,000 hp (8,900 kW)
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range:	4,800 nautical miles (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	98
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar Don-2 Slim Net Hawk Screech Sonar - Herkules hull mounted & dipping sonar
Armament:	4 76 mm (3 in) guns (2x2) 4 RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers (2 in some ships) 5 406 mm (16 in) anti-submarine torpedo tubes

The Mirka class was the NATO reporting name for a class of light frigates built for the Soviet Navy in the mid to late 1960s. The Soviet designation was Storozhevoi Korabl (escort ship) Project 35 (Mirka I) and Project 35-M (Mirka II).

Design

The role of these ships was anti-submarine warfare in shallow waters and they were similar to the Petya-class frigates but had a modified machinery suite. The machinery consisted of two shafts with diesels and gas turbines (CODAG). The propellers were in tunnels (similar to water jets). The machinery proved noisy and not very reliable.

Ships

A total of 18 ships were built by Yantar shipyard, Kaliningrad, for the Soviet Navy. All ships were decommissioned between 1989 and 1992.

Gallery

Mirka I-class frigate SKR-6 colliding with USS Caron.
A Mirka II-class frigate.

References

Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 ISBN 0-85177-605-1

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:SKR-7 class frigate.

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Page in Russian
(English) Russian Mirka Class - Complete Ship List

Mirka-class frigates

PLK-7 / SKR-7 PLK-20 / SKR-20 PLK-32 / SKR-32 PLK-49 / SKR-49 / Ivan Sladkov PLK-39 / SKR-39 PLK-44 / SKR-86 PLK-53 / SKR-53 PLK-8 / SKR-24 PLK-51 / SKR-84 PLK-12 / SKR-12 PLK-48 / SKR-48 PLK-35 / SKR-35 / Gangutec PLK-55 / SKR-83 / 60 let Komsomolu Belorussii PLK-6 / SKR-6 PLK-19 / SKR-19 PLK-13 / SKR-13 SKR-90 SKR-117

Preceded by: Petya class Followed by: Koni class

List of frigates of the Soviet Navy

Soviet and Russian ship classes after 1945

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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