IAC "Volgodonsk" became part of the Navy
The ceremony was attended by the commander of the Leningrad Naval Base, captain of the 1 rank Oleg Zhuravlev, the general director of Shipbuilding Company Almaz, Leonid Grabovets, the winner of the Russian Government Prize, the chief designer of the Buyan project, Yakov Kushnir.
Before raising the Andreevsky flag on the ship, the commander of the 13th brigade of ships under construction and repair at the Leningrad Naval Base, 1st-Class Captain Ali Khasbulaev, read order No. 010 of the Navy Commander-in-Chief, Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov, dated June 26, 2012, on the enrollment of the Volgodonsk small artillery ship "project 21630 factory number 702 in the composition of the Naval fleet Russia - to the 73rd brigade of ships of the protection of the water area with a base in Astrakhan.
Captain 1 rank Oleg Zhuravlev handed the commander of the ship guard Lieutenant Commander Vladimir Zaitsev Andrew flag. During the ceremony, the flag of the ship was consecrated by the archpriest of the Nikolsky Naval Cathedral by Father Vladimir.
Next week, the towing of the IAC "Volgodonsk" on inland waterways to a permanent duty station in the Caspian Flotilla will begin.
Let us recall that the acceptance certificate on the transfer of the Navy of the Russian Federation to the IAC "Volgodonsk" project 21630 "Buyan" was signed in December 2011 of the year in the main base of the Baltic Fleet in Baltiysk after the successful completion of state tests. This is the first serial ship of the project 21630 "Buyan", built by the shipbuilders of the St. Petersburg Shipbuilding Company "Almaz".
Launched "Volgodonsk", launched in May 2011, was first shown to the general public at the International Naval Show-2011 in St. Petersburg Harbor. The project of the new generation ship, which received the number 21630 and the cipher "Buyan", was developed at OAO "Zelenodolsk PKB" under the supervision of the chief designer J. Kushnir.
displacement - about 500 t,
length - 62 m,
width - 9,6 m
Height - 6,57 m
draft - 2 m,
power plant - two-shaft diesel power plant operating according to the CODAD scheme,
propulsion - water jet 2,
speed - 28 nodes,
cruising range - up to 1500 miles,
autonomy - 10 days,
crew - 48 people, of them 6 officers.
Armament ship project 21630 "Buyan":
navigation equipment - 1 x Radar MR-231, BIUS "Sigma",
radar armament - 1 x Radar "Positive M", 1 x Radar 5P-10 "Weasel" for AU and ZAK,
EW - 2 x 10 PU PC-10 "Brave",
artillery armament - 1x1 100-mm AU A190-01 "Universal", 26 AU AK-306, 2х1 14,5-mm machine guns MTPU, 1х40 122-mm machine guns MTPU, 215хXNUMX XNUMX-mm XNUMX-mm machine gun installations, XNUMXхXNUMX XNUMX-mm machine guns MTPU, XNUMXхXNUMX XNUMX-mm XNUMX-mm machine-gun installations, XNUMX-XXNUMX XNUMX-mm machine guns
anti-aircraft missile weapons - 1х4 PU 3М47 "Bending" with the Eagle "Needle" or "Needle-S".
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