Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk

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|Ship caption=Bezzavetnyy is closest to the camera, the cruiser Zhdanov in the middle and the submarine tender Magomed Gadzhiev in the rear

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|Ship country=Soviet UnionRussia

|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} → {{shipboxflag|Russia|navy-1992}}

|Ship name=Bezzavetnyy

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|Ship ordered= 4 July 1973

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|Ship builder= Zaliv Shipbuilding yard (Kerch)

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|Ship launched=7 May 1977

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|Ship commissioned=17 February 1978

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|Ship decommissioned=8 September 1997

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|Ship fate= Transferred to Ukraine on 1 August 1997

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| Ship country = Ukraine

| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Ukraine|naval}}

| Ship name = Dnipropetrovsk

| Ship renamed = 1997

| Ship acquired = 1 August 1997

| Ship decommissioned = October 2002

|Ship identification= U134

| Ship reclassified = "Technical property" (2002)

| Ship fate = Scuttled on 12 May 2005

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|Ship class={{sclass2|Burevestnik|frigate}}

|Ship displacement=3,300 tons standard, 3,575 tons full load

|Ship length={{convert|405.3|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|46.3|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft={{convert|15.1|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

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|Ship propulsion=*2 shaft; COGAG

  • 2 x M-8k gas-turbines, {{convert|40000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}
  • 2 x M-62 gas-turbines (cruise), {{convert|14950|shp|kW|abbr=on}}

|Ship speed={{convert|32|kn|lk=in}}

|Ship range={{convert|4995|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|14|kn}}

|Ship complement=200

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|Ship sensors=*Radar: 1 MR-755 Fregat-M/Half Plate air/surface search

  • Sonar: Zvezda-2 suite with MGK-345 Bronza/Ox Yoke bow mounted LF, Ox Tail LF VDS
  • Fire Control: Purga ASW combat system, 2 Drakon/Eye Bowl SSM targeting, 2 MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group

|Ship EW=Start suite with Bell Shroud intercept, Bell Squat jammer, 4 PK-16 decoy RL, 8 PK-10 decoy RL, 2 towed decoys

|Ship armament=*1 × 4 URK-5 (SS-N-14 'Silex') SSM/ASW missiles

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The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezzavetnyy of the {{sclass2|Burevestnik|frigate|0}} (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.

Service history

=Black Sea incident=

{{main|1988 Black Sea bumping incident}}

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On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Vladimir Bogdashin, the ship intentionally{{cite web |url=http://www.istpravda.com.ua/videos/2011/02/12/24092/ |title=1988: радянський фрегат атакує американський крейсер під Ялтою |trans-title=1988: A Soviet frigate attacks an American cruiser near Yalta |date=12 February 2011 |website=Istorychna Pravda |language=uk}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SME4w037FgA&feature=player_embedded#at=95 |title=1988 Soviet ramming USS Yorktown CG-48 in Black Sea |author=Gunnermatecg48 |date=20 August 2008 |website=YouTube}} nudged the U.S. missile cruiser {{USS|Yorktown|CG-48|6}} in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.

=Ukrainian service=

In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.

=Fate=

Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.

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See also

  • {{ship|Ukrainian frigate|Mykolaiv||6}}

References

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=Bibliography=

  • {{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Chumbley|first2=Stephen|last3=Budzbon|first3=Przemysław |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 |year=1995 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-132-7}}