The Petya class was the
NATO reporting name for a class of light
frigates designed in the 1950s and built for the
Soviet Navy in the 1960s. The Soviet designation was "Storozhevoi Korabl`" (Сторожевой Корабль - Sentry Ship) ''Project 159''.
Design
They were the first gas turbine-powered ships in the Soviet Navy. The role of these ships was
anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations are t ...
in shallow waters and they were similar to the s. The specification (TTZ in Russian) was issued in 1955 and design approved in 1956. A three shaft machinery layout was chosen with the central shaft powered by diesel engines for economical cruising and the two wing shafts powered by gas turbines for speed. Gun armament was two twin
AK-726 gun turrets in "A" and "Y" positions which were controlled by a single radar director. Anti-submarine armament consisted of four
RBU-6000
The RBU-6000 Smerch-2 (Реактивно-Бомбовая Установка, ''Reaktivno-Bombovaja Ustanovka''; reaction engine-bomb installation & Смерч; waterspout) is a 213 mm caliber Soviet anti-submarine rocket launcher. It i ...
anti-submarine rocket launchers and a launcher for anti-submarine torpedoes. Some of the ships designed for export replaced the 406 mm
torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.
There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboa ...
s with anti-shipping torpedo tubes. A comprehensive sonar suite including VDS was fitted.
Ships
A total of 54 ships were built in two shipyards: the
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...
Yantar shipyard built 22 ships including exports and
Khabarovsk yard built 32 ships including exports. All Soviet ships were decommissioned in 1989-1992 but some are still in service with export customers.
Export sales
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Azerbaijani Navy - 1 ship
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Egyptian Navy - 4 ships acquired between 1965 and 1971, 1 sunk in combat in 1973, 1 still in service
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Ethiopian Navy - 4 ships - sold for scrap in Djibouti following the independence of Eritrea
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Indian Navy
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- 11 ships designated s (all decommissioned). Classified as corvette due to smaller size and role of the ships.
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Syrian Arab Navy - 2 ships were in service, in derelict condition at Tartus port. Probably retired in 2017 or 2018. 1 decommissioned Syrian frigate sunk by Russian air force (Probably by SU-34 with KH-35 air-launched missile) as a training target on 15 April 2018 off the coast of Syria.
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Ukrainian Navy
The Military Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Військо́во-морські́ си́ли Збро́йних сил Украї́ни, ВМС ЗСУ) is the maritime forces of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Ar ...
- 1 ship. The pro-Ukrainian crew of a frigate SKR-112 made an independent transition from the Black Sea Fleet controlled by Moscow on July 21, 1992. The ship was in the Ukraine's service until it was decommissioned in 1993.
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Vietnam People's Navy
The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; vi, Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), or the Naval Service (), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsi ...
- 5 ships (still in service)
See also
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List of ships of the Soviet Navy
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List of ships of Russia by project number
The list of ships of Russia by project number includes all Russian ships by assigned project numbers. Ship descriptions are Russian assigned classifications when known. (The Russian term "проект" can be translated either as the cognate "pr ...
References
* Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
External links
page from FAS*
{{Soviet and Russian ships after 1945
Frigate classes
Ships of the Soviet Navy