Russian destroyer Smetlivy
{{Short description|Soviet and Russian naval vessel}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{other ships|Soviet destroyer Smetlivy (1937)}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Project 61M Smetlivyy 2009 G1.jpg |Ship caption=Smetlivy in 2009 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Soviet Union → Russia |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} → {{shipboxflag|Russia|navy}} |Ship name=Smetlivy |Ship namesake= |Ship renamed= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=61 Communards Shipyard |Ship laid down=15 July 1966 |Ship launched= 26 August 1967 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=25 September 1969 |Ship decommissioned= 27 August 2020 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship fate= |Ship status= Opened as Museum in Sevastopol |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass2|Kashin|destroyer}} |Ship displacement=*3,720 tons standard,
|Ship length={{convert|144|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|15.8|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=*2 × COGAG; 2 shafts,
|Ship speed={{convert|38|kn}} (4 gas turbines on full power) |Ship range=*{{convert|3500|nmi|abbr=on |
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|Ship complement=274 |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × 2 {{convert|76|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} AK-726 guns,
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Smetlivy ({{langx|ru|Сметливый|italic=yes|lit=Resourceful}}) was a {{sclass2|Kashin|destroyer|0}} guided missile destroyer of the Russian Navy. Entering service in 1969, the ship served until 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union. She returned to service in 1995 after a refit and was made part of the Black Sea Fleet. As of 2011-2020 she was the oldest active destroyer in the world. The ship was decommissioned in 2020 to become a museum ship.{{Cite web|url=https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/05/russias-black-sea-fleet-completes-the-first-stage-of-its-modernization/|title = Russia's Black Sea Fleet Completes the First Stage of its Modernization|date = 21 May 2020}}
Service history
Ordered by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, Smetlivy was laid down in July 1966 and commissioned into the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in 1969. In 1990 the ship was laid up for repairs and modification. She became part of the Russian Navy after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The ship returned to service in 1995, now armed with the more modern SS-N-25 Switchblade missile system.{{cite web|url=http://flot.sevastopol.info/eng/ship/largeaswdestroyers/smetlivy.htm|title=Large ASW Destroyer "Smetlivyy"|publisher=Black Sea Fleet Information Resource|accessdate=23 November 2011}}
In August 2008 the ship took part in the Russo-Georgian War, and was part of task force from a Black Sea Fleet enforcing de facto blockade of the Republic of Georgia. In 2009 the ship was again laid up for repairs, returning to service in mid-2011 and being involved in Russian-Italian naval exercises in the Mediterranean Sea.{{cite web|url=http://rusnavy.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=13667|title=BSF Task Unit Returned from Mediterranean|publisher=rusnavy.com|date=21 November 2011 |accessdate=23 November 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://flot.com/news/vpk/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=57244|script-title=ru:Ветеран ударных сил Черноморского флота готовится к возвращению в строй|publisher=flot.com|date=2 November 2011 |accessdate=23 November 2011|language=Russian}} As of 2013 Smetlivy is the last Kashin-class destroyer in service with the Russian Navy.{{cite web|url=http://en.ria.ru/world/20130906/183216610/Russia-Sends-1-More-Warship-to-Mediterranean-Sea-Fleet--Official.html |title=Russia Sends 1 More Warship to Mediterranean Sea Fleet – Official | World | RIA Novosti |publisher=En.ria.ru |date=6 September 2013 |accessdate=30 May 2015}}
In 2013, she was sent off the coast of Syria in response to military tensions and a buildup of Western naval forces.{{cite web|first=Alec |last=Luhn |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/russia-sends-ships-mediterranean-syria |title=Russia sends missile cruiser to Mediterranean as Syria tension mounts |work=The Guardian |date=12 September 2013 |accessdate=30 May 2015}} Smetlivy returned to Syria in September 2015.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} During the Syrian deployment, Smetlivy fired warning shots at a Turkish fishing vessel on 13 December 2015 after the Turkish ship reportedly did not respond to radio calls or signal flares to turn away from the destroyer.{{cite web|title=Military attache at the Turkish embassy in Moscow urgently invited to the Russian Ministry of Defence in connection with the incident in the Aegean Sea|url=http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12071679@egNews|website=Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation|accessdate=13 December 2015}} The Turkish fishing vessel Geçiciler-1 in its own accord has reported to the Turkish Coast Guard that no shots were detected from Smetlivy and that they passed the static Russian ship from a mile distance and continued with their fishing undisturbed. Video material from Geçiciler-1 has been handed over to the Turkish Coast Guard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/turk-balikci-rusya-yi-yalanladi-gundem-2163097/?ShowPageSkin=1|title = Türk balıkçı Rusya'yı yalanladı}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.haberturk.com/gundem/haber/1166545-rus-gemisiyle-karsilasan-turk-teknesinin-kaptani-konustu|title=Rus gemisiyle karşılaşan Türk teknesinin kaptanı konuştu}}
References
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Category:Kashin-class destroyers
Category:Destroyers of the Russian Navy
Category:Cold War destroyers of the Soviet Union