Project 1241.2 Molniya-2: 42 ASW corvette planned (3 cancelled) 1976-1991 The Pauk class (NATO reporting name) were small patrol corvettes of for the Soviet Navy, exported also between 1977 and 1989, official designation Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. Partly inspired by the Tarantul class, they were designed for coastal patrol and inshore ASW warfare. They differed from … Read more
Project 1234 Ovod 1968-75. Nanuchka I-IV: 35 Corvettes Built in Ulis (Vladivostok) and Petrovsky (Leningrad), these were 35 multirole “large missile boats” (NATO corvettes) (17 Nanuchka I and 17 Nanuchka III), plus the Nanuchka II export (7 for Libya and Algeria), and single prototype Nanuchka IV of 1976. Project 1234 Ovod were classified as coastal … Read more
Project 1159 Del’fin class “patrol ships” Frigates NATO Koni I/II/III) 1975-1988: 15 completed. The Koni class (NATO reporting name) were fifteen anti-submarine warfare frigate built by the Soviet Union as Project 1159 Del’fin to replace the 1950s Riga class. Fourteen were built in Zelenodolsk shipyard between 1975 and 1988. However the project evolved into multirole … Read more
Project 705 Lira (NATO “ALFA”) nuclear attack submarines 7 submarines: K-64, K-123, K-316, K-432, K-373, K-493, K-463 The world’s fastest SSN was already in 1960 a Soviet submarine, the first with two nuclear reactors, with a tested underwater speed of 31 knots: Project 627 “Kit” (NATO “November”). In the mid-1960s it was clear that the … Read more
Project 1143.5 STOBAR Aircraft Carrying Cruiser (Tyazholiy Avianesushchiy Kreyser – TAK): Kreml Class. 1982-90: Admiral Kuznetsov (still active), Riga (Varyag, later PLAN Type 001 Liaoning) After the Kievs and Kirovs, the USSR had the technical means to build large units, using nuclear propulsion combined with conventional propulsion. Soviet doctrine had led the Admiralty to define … Read more
Project 941 Akula nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines 6 ballistic submarines built 1976-89: TK-208, 202, 12, 13, 47, 20, 210 (cancelled) service until 1998-2020. The Typhoon class was one of the most outstanding piece of kit ever created in the Soviet Union, a naval “superweapon” to place in the same basket as the Oscar class … Read more
92 planned, 86 completed under Project 1124 Al’batros Technically, the Grisha class ships were corvettes, not Frigates which were supposed to replace the mass-built Poti class of the 1960s, and they inherited many characteristics of the previous Petya and Mirka class ASW Frigates. They were built in parallel to the large Krivak class Frigates and … Read more
Project 68bis, 14 cruisers (1951): Sverdlov, Zhdanov, Admiral Ushakov, Aleksandr Suvorov, Admiral Senyavin, Dmitry Pozharsky, Kronstadt*, Tallinn*, Varyag*, Ordzhonikidze (KRI Irian 1963), Aleksandr Nevsky, Admiral Lazarev, Shcherbakov*, Dzerzhinsky, Admiral Nakhimov*, Mikhail Kutuzov, Admiral Kornilov*, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsia, Murmansk*, Arkhangelsk*, Vladivostok* *cancelled, BU on slip This massive class wanted by Stalin was to answer the armada of … Read more
Project 667BDRM Delfin nuclear missile attack submarines 7 ballistic submarines (Delta IV) built 1981-90: K-51, 84, 64, 114, 117, 18, 407 The Delta IV class SSBNs (in Russian Raketnyy Podvodnyy Strategicheskogo Nazhacheniya or RPKSN) were the last of the Delta serie, and last SSBNs (with the Typhoons) built in the Soviet Union. The next Russian … Read more
Project 670/670M Skat: 17 SSGNs Nuclear powered Missile Attack submarines (Charlie I/II). The Project 670 Skat submarine (NATO Charlie class) were nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) of the Soviet Navy and later Russian Navy, now all decommissioned. They were designed by the Lazurit Central Design Bureau of Gorky in order to replace the previous 1950s … Read more
