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MOURAD RAÏS light frigates (1980-1984)

Mourad Rais  2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
مراد رئس [Mourad Rais] (ex-ÑÊÐ-482 [SKR-482]) 901 250 Gorkiy Yd, Zelenodolsk, USSR 10.6.1978 12.1.1980 30.9.1980 // 20.12.1980 in service (2019)
رئس كلش [Rais Kellich] (ex-ÑÊÐ-35 [SKR-35]) 902 252 Gorkiy Yd, Zelenodolsk, USSR 11.6.1980 30.4.1981 30.11.1981 // 24.3.1982 in service (2019)
رئس قرف [Rais Korfu] (ex-ÑÊÐ-129 [SKR-129]) 903 254 Gorkiy Yd, Zelenodolsk, USSR 7.7.1982 11.11.1983 30.8.1984 // 1.1985 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1520

Displacement full, t

1900

Length, m

96.5

Breadth, m

12.6

Draught, m

3.32 hull 5.74 max

No of shafts

3

Machinery

1 M-8G gas turbine (central shaft) + 2 68B diesels (outer shafts)

Power, h. p.

20000 + 16000 = 36000

Max speed, kts

29

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(14)

Armament

1 x 2 Osa-M SAM (20 9M33), 2 x 2 - 76/59 AK-726, 2 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 12 RBU-6000 Smerch-2 ASWRL, 2 DCR (12), 14 mines

Sensors

MR-320 Topaz-2V, Fut-N, 4R-33, MR-105 Turel', MR-104 Rys', Don radars, MG-311 Vychegda sonar, Bizan'-4B ECM suite

Complement

108

Project history: Soviet export project 1159T light frigates.

Modernizations: 2000, Rais Korfu: as project 1159TM: - 2 x 2 - 30/71, MR-320 Topaz-2V, MR-104 Rys' radars; + 2 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630M, 2 x 2 - 533 TT, Pozitiv-ME1, 2x MR-123 Vympel-A radars

2011, Mourad Rais; 2012, Rais Kellich: - NR-320Topaz-2V, MR-105 Turel', MR-104 Rys' radars; + Pozitiv-ME1 radar, 2x SP-521 Rakurs e/o systems, 2x PK-16 decoy RL

Naval service: Rais Korfu was damaged by explosion during refit and modernization at St. Petersburg, Russia, in December 2015 and returned to service in March 2017.

Mourad Rais 2011

© Ivan Gogin, 2019