Ivan Susanin class icebreaker
| 300px Russian Coast Guard Project 97P Border Patrol Icebreaker Volga (#183). | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Admiralty Yard, Leningrad |
| Operators: | Template:Country data SUN 22x20px Border Guard Service of Russia |
| Built: | 1975-1981 |
| In commission: | 1975-present day |
| Building: | 8 |
| Active: | 6 |
| Retired: | 2? |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Icebreaker patrol vessel |
| Displacement: | 3,400 tons full load |
| Length: | 70 m |
| Beam: | 18.3 m |
| Draught: | 6.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft diesel electric 4,800 hp |
| Speed: | 14.5 knots |
| Range: | 13,000 nm at 9.5 knots |
| Complement: | 140 |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Radar: 2 x Don Kay, 1 Strut Curve, 1 Owl Screech |
| Armament: |
2 x 76mm guns 2 AK630 CIWS guns |
| Aviation facilities: | helicopter pad |
The Ivan Susanin class are a group of icebreaker Patrol ships operated by the Russian maritime border guard. The Soviet designation is Project 97P. The ships are also known as the Aysberg class patrol ice breakers.
Design
These ships are modified versions of the Dobrynya Nikitich class civilian icebreaker. They are armed with a twin 76mm gun mounting forward and two AK630 CIWS guns aft as well as having a helicopter pad and surveillance radar.
Ships
Eight ships were built between 1975 and 1981 by Admiralty yard, Leningrad - 6 are operational and two have been retired.
- Aysberg - 1974 based in the Pacific
- Dunaii - 1977 based in the Pacific
- Imeni XXVI S'yezda KPSS (renamed Murmansk) - 1978, Northern Fleet
- Ivan Susanin - operated by the Russian Navy as a support ship
- Neva
- Ruslan
- Volga - 1980 Pacific
- Sadko
- Vladimir Karvaiyski
References
Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław. Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501327. OCLC 34267261.
| Aysberg class border guard ship
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