SLAVIA missile cruiser

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SLAVIA missile cruiser

Post by shipstamps » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:50 pm


Built as a guided missile cruiser under hull No 121 by the Kommunar yard at Nikolæv (Mykolaiv), Ukraine for the Soviet Navy.
05 November 1976 laid down.
27 July 1979 launched under the name SLAVIA (Glory), one of the Slavia class of which six were planned but only 4 were built.
Displacement 10.000 ton standard, 12.500 ton full load, dim. 186.4 x 20.8 x 6.32m. (draught).
Powered by four Cogog gas turbines each 27.500 shp., and two cruise turbines each 10.000 shp, four propellers, speed 32.5 knots.
Range at 15 knots, 9.000 miles.
Armament 16 – SS-N-12 Bazalt/Sandbox missiles, 8 – SA-N-6 Grumble SAM VLS (64 missiles) surface to air missiles, 2 – Osa-MA SAM missiles.
1 – twin 130mm gun, 6 – 30mm AK-630 Gatling guns, 2 – 45mm guns and 2 x 5 – 553mm torpedo tubes.
Can carry on the aft deck one helicopter.
Crew 454, when used as flagship an additional of 51 people are placed on board.
07 February 1983 commissioned.

After she was commissioned joined the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

By this stamp is given by the Malta Post:

The guided missile frigate USS BELKNAP and the guided missile cruiser SLAVIA of the Soviet Navy provided the communications support for the meeting between President George Bush of the United States and President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union on 2 – 3 December 1989 which ended the Cold War. Moored close to each other in Marsaxlokk Bay, the two warships rode stormy seas when the island was hit by a gale.
USS BELKNAP was commissioned on 07 November 1964 and was retired from the Navy in February 1993. She was sunk as a target in February 1998. SLAVIA entered service in January 1983 and was the first Soviet warship to visit Malta after World War II. She was later extensively refurbished, renamed MOSKVA when the Soviet Navy was apportioned between the new states of the Russian Confederation and again visited Malta as flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet for the anniversary of the island’s commemoration of independence in September 2004.

(The SLAVIA is the vessel in the background on the stamp.)

From 1991 till 1998 at the Nikolayev yard for a refit.
Then she replaced the ADMIRAL GOLOVKO as flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.
1995 Renamed MOSKVA (121)

2006 Still based in the Black Sea as flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavia_class_cruiser http://flot.sevastopol.info/eng/ship/cr ... slavia.htm

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Re: SLAVIA missile cruiser renamed MOSKVA

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu May 19, 2022 9:03 pm

Her career and fate are given on: posting.php?mode=edit&p=18602

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