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| Russian Mistral ready for sea trials |
| 2016-06-21 |
| You can see her vitals here. Both ships are named after Order of Nakhimov 1st Class recipients from WWII. The Order of Nakhimov 1st Class is a Russian award for military leadership to be bestowed on naval officers. 79 were awarded the Order of Nakhimov 1st Class during WWII. The Ivan Gren (Project 11711) large landing ship has arrived the port of Baltiysk for qualifications and training (landing operations, helicopters training etc) before it will join to the Russian Northern Fleet (till the end of 2016). The ship is built in Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad. The vessel have a displacement of 5,000 tons and is able to carry up to 13 main battle tanks or 36 armoured personnel carriers or 300 marines. The Ivan Gren-class ship also carries two military helicopters Kamov Ka-27, developed for ferrying and anti-submarine warfare. The Ivan Gren is armed by six 30mm radar-guided automatic guns. It has modern cranes for loading equipment, which also can be loaded on the ship through the bow ramp. Some media call the Ivan Gren-class vessel: ‘Russian Misral‘ because it has been developed to replace the two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that had been built for Russia by France but wasn’t delivered because of “Russian involvement” into the crisis in Ukraine. In 2015, another Project 11711 large landing ship, the Pyotr Morgunov, was laid down at the Kaliningrad-based Yantar shipyard. It’s planned to be transfered to the Russian Navy in 2018. The landing ship will be allegedly armed with a 76-mm naval gun, two 30-mm AK-630 anti aircraft mounts and multiple artillery rocket systems. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 IIRC, the Russian naval groups tend to be assigned ocean-going tugs, not individual ships. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-21 13:19 |
| #1 Quite the climb down going from 21,000 tonne LHDs to 5,000 Tonne LSTs. Will the Russian LSTs need their own dedicated tug boats, like the aircraft carrier? |
| Posted by: Cravirt Flusong7056 2016-06-21 11:44 |