Gorya-class minesweeper
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_in_2020.jpg) Minesweeper Vladimir Gumanenko in 2020
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Gorya class (Project 12660) |
| Builders | Baltic Werf |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Natya-class minesweeper |
| Succeeded by | Alexandrit-class minesweeper |
| In commission | 1988-present |
| Planned | 20 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Cancelled | 18 |
| Active | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gorya class minehunter |
| Displacement | 900 tons, 1100 tons full load |
| Length | 70 m (230 ft) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Draught | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 × M-503B-37 Diesel engines 5000 hp |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Range | 1,500 nautical miles (2,778.0 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Endurance | 7 days |
| Crew | 60 |
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The Gorya class, Soviet designation Project 12660, are a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1980s. Three ships were started of which two were completed and are in service with the Russian Navy.
Design
[edit]The ships are designed for deep ocean sweeping of captor mines with sophisticated mine detection equipment. Sweeping gear includes two submersibles as well as conventional sweeps. Russian press boasted that the Project 12660 minesweepers were the first sweepers in the history of Soviet military shipbuilding capable of not only destroying the "Captor" mines, "Colas" ASW coverage buoys, and other enemy underwater objects at depths of up to 1000 meters.
Ships
[edit]A total of twenty ships were planned, but the programme was stopped by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two ships were completed.
| Name | Hull No. | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fleet | Status |
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| Anatoly Zheleznyakov | 901 | 1988 | Black Sea Fleet | Active | ||
| Vladimir Gumanenko | 811 | 1994 | Northern Fleet | Active |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-605-1. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
- "1266.0 Admiral Zheleznyakov / Gorya class". Warfare.be. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
- "All Gorya Class Minesweepers - Complete Ship List". Russianships.info.