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Project 1134B Berkut-B Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
Azov	N	21st July 1972	14th September 1973	25th December 1975
Kerch	N	30th April 1971	21st July 1972	26th December 1974
Nikolaiev	N	25th June 1968	19th December 1969	31st December 1971
Ochakov	N	19th December 1969	30th April 1971	4th November 1973
Petropavlovsk	N	9th September 1973	22nd November 1974	29th December 1976
Tallin / Vladivostock	N	5th November 1975	5th November 1976	31st December 1979
Tashkent	N	22nd November 1974	5th November 1975	21st December 1977

Builders:
N : 61 Kommunar, Nikolaiev, Russia

Dimensions:
568' 8" x 60' 7" x 18' 8" / 173.30m x 18.50m x 5.74m

Displacement:
6700 tons std / 8565 tons max

Complement:
47 + 333

Armament:
Azov:-
4 x 76mm AK-726 guns in twin turrets (4800 rounds)
1 x B-92 twin arm launcher for Shtorm / SA-N-3 SAM (36 rounds)
2 x twin arm launchers for Osa-M / SA-N-4 SAM (40 rounds)
6 x quad VLS launchers for Fort / SA-N-6 SAM (24 rounds)
8 x KT-100M launchers for RP33 Metel / SS-N-14 AS missile (16 rounds)
2 x RBU6000 AS mortars (144 rounds)
2 x RBU1000 AS mortars (60 rounds)
4 x AK-630 CIWS (8000 rounds)
4 x 21" PTA-53-1134 torpedo tubes in twin mountings

All other ships:-
4 x 76mm AK-726 guns in twin turrets (4800 rounds)
2 x B-92 twin arm launcher for Shtorm / SA-N-3 SAM (72 rounds)
2 x twin arm launchers for Osa-M / SA-N-4 SAM (40 rounds)
8 x KT-100M launchers for RP33 Metel / SS-N-14 AS missile (16 rounds)
2 x RBU6000 AS mortars (144 rounds)
2 x RBU1000 AS mortars (60 rounds)
4 x AK-630 CIWS (8000 rounds)
10 x 21" PTA-53-1134 torpedo tubes in quintuple mountings

Aircraft Facilities:
A hangar and flightdeck is fitted for a single Ka-25 helicopter. Sixteen tons of aviation fuel can be carried.

Petropavlovsk only carries a Ka-27 helicopter.

Armour:
None known.

Powerplant:
Four GTU-12A gas turbines totalling 80000shp are fitted with two M5 gas turbines totalling 16000shp on two shafts.

Maximum speed is 32kts and range is 6500NM @ 18kts or 3000NM @ 32kts. Up to 1830 tons of oil fuel can be carried.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
MR-600 Voskhod air search
MR-310 Angara
Don navigation
2 x Volga navigation

Kerch only is fitted with MR-700 in place of MR-310.

Sonar:
MG-332 hull mounted
MG-325 towed array
MG-26 communications

Other:
Grom SA-N-3 fire control
Osa SA-N-4 fire control
Drakon SA-N-14 fire control
MR-105 Turel AK-726 fire control
Kurs gyrocompass
ARP-50P HFDF

Miscellaneous: