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Project 50 1980  

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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Горностай [Gornostay]   1120 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 20.12.1951 30.6.1952 30.6.1954 stricken 6.1991
Пантера [Pantera], 7.1977- Советский Туркменистан [Sovetskiy Turkmenistan]   1121 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 21/02/1952 20.8.1952 21.5.1954 stricken 6.1988
Рысь [Rys']   1122 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 22.4.1952 31.12.1952 21.5.1954 stricken 4.1990
Ягуар [Yaguar], 10.1968- Комсомолец Грузии [Komsomolets Gruzii]   1123 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 23.7.1952 14.2.1953 24.4.1954 test ship OS-188 6.1977, stricken 8.1987
Сарыч [Sarych]   1124 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 24.9.1952 31.3.1953 31.8.1954 to Indonesia 1.1963 (Jos Sudarso)
Пума [Puma]   1125 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 25.11.1952 29.4.1953 31.8.1954 to Indonesia 1.1963 (Slamet Rijadi)
Волк [Volk]   1126 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 26.2.1953 23.7.1953 31.10.1954 stricken 10.1988
Куница [Kunitsa]   1127 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 27.5.1953 30.11.1953 23.12.1954 stricken 5.1989
Корсак [Korsak]   1128 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 1.8.1953 29.4.1954 30.12.1954 to Indonesia 1.1963 (Ngurah Rai)
Норка [Norka]   1129 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 12.1.1954 29.4.1954 30.4.1955 stricken 5.1989
Ворон [Voron]   1130 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 12.3.1954 11.11.1954 18.6.1955 stricken 5.1989
Гризон [Grizon]   1131 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 15.4.1954 29.11.1954 30.6.1955 to Indonesia 1.1963 (Mongin Sidi)
СКР-51 [SKR-51]   1132 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 25.6.1954 26.2.1955 28.9.1955 stricken 6.1991
СКР-52 [SKR-52], 8.1961- Туман [Tuman]   1133 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 1.9.1954 15.4.1955 26.11.1955 stricken 5.1989
СКР-53 [SKR-53]   1134 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 20.11.1954 15.4.1955 31.12.1955 to Bulgaria 10.1958 (Смели [Smeli])
СКР-57 [SKR-57]   1135 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 23.12.1954 21.7.1955 28.2.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-58 [SKR-58]   1136 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 15.3.1955 21.7.1955 7.5.1956 stricken 4.1990
СКР-63 [SKR-63]   1137 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 5.5.1955 28.10.1955 30.5.1956 target 6.1987
СКР-66 [SKR-66]   1138 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 10.2.1956 30.5.1956 29.9.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-67 [SKR-67]   1139 445 61 Kommunara Yd, Nikolayev 1.3.1956 10.7.1956 22.12.1956 to Bulgaria 4.1957 (Дръзки [Druzki])
Леопард [Leopard]   108 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 21.2.1952 30.4.1953 30.4.1954 stricken 9.1981
Барс [Bars]   109 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 25.4.1952 25.7.1953 30.6.1954 stricken 4.1990
Росомаха [Rosomakha]   110 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 19.6.1952 16.8.1953 30.4.1954 stricken 5.1989
Соболь [Sobol']   111 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 27.9.1952 5.11.1953 13.10.1954 to GDR 10.1959 (Karl Marx)
Барсук [Barsuk]   112 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 2.12.1952 27.2.1954 15.9.1954 stricken 5.1980
Кугуар [Kuguar]   113 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 27.3.1953 31.12.1953 31.8.1954 stricken 4.1990
Енот [Yenot]   114 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.10.1953 9.4.1954 30.10.1954 to GDR 10.1959 (Friedrich Engels)
Филин [Filin]   115 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 27.8.1953 6.6.1954 9.12.1954 to Finland 4.1964 (Uusimaa)
Лунь [Lun']   116 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 20.10.1953 5.8.1954 27.12.1954 stricken 5.1989
Кобчик [Kobchik]   117 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 26.12.1953 2.11.1954 31.5.1955 to Bulgaria 11.1985 (Бодри [Bodri])
Тур [Tur]   118 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 24.3.1954 16.12.1954 31.5.1955 to GDR 1.1957 (Karl Liebknecht)
Лось [Los']   119 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 26.5.1954 29.3.1955 31.7.1955 stricken 6.1987
Олень [Olen']   120 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 2.8.1954 29.4.1955 27.8.1955 to GDR 7.1956 (Ernst Thälmann)
СКР-50 [SKR-50]   194 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 12.10.1954 16.8.1955 3.1.1956 stricken 6.1987
СКР-54 [SKR-54]   131 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 20.12.1954 31.8.1955 31.12.1955 stricken 6.1987
СКР-55 [SKR-55]   160 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 18.2.1955 30.9.1955 31.12.1955 stricken 6.1987
СКР-56 [SKR-56], 12.1977- Советский Азербайджан [Sovetskiy Azerbaydzhan]   173 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 16.4.1955 6.1.1956 21.5.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-59 [SKR-59]   147 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 21.6.1955 2.2.1956 25.5.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-60 [SKR-60]   149 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 8.12.1955 13.4.1956 29.6.1956 stricken 6.1988
СКР-61 [SKR-61]   151 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.10.1955 24.5.1956 23.8.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-62 [SKR-62], 10.1969- Иркутский комсомолец [Irkutskiy Komsomolets]   155 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 21.12.1955 27.6.1956 25.9.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-64 [SKR-64], 10.1962- Комсомолец Литвы [Komsomolets Litvy]   156 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 8.2.1956 1.8.1956 31.10.1956 stricken 8.1987
СКР-65 [SKR-65]   161 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 28.3.1956 4.9.1956 27.12.1956 stricken 5.1989
СКР-68 [SKR-68]   167 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.5.1956 27.10.1956 23.3.1957 stricken 5.1989
СКР-69 [SKR-69]   125 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 29.7.1956 28.12.1956 30.5.1957 to Finland 6.1964 (Hämeenmaa)
СКР-70 [SKR-70]   126 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 13.8.1956 19.2.1957 20.6.1957 stricken 6.1991
СКР-71 [SKR-71]   127 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 21.9.1956 3.4.1957 13.7.1957 TS 6.1987, stricken 6.1991
СКР-72 [SKR-72]   128 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 26.1.1957 16.5.1957 26.9.1957 heating vessel 6.1991
СКР-73 [SKR-73]   129 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 24.12.1956 21.6.1957 30.9.1957 stricken 2.1991
СКР-74 [SKR-74]   130 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 4.2.1957 27.7.1957 26.11.1957 stricken 6.1988
СКР-75 [SKR-75]   132 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 14.3.1957 3.9.1957 30.12.1957 stricken 6.1988
СКР-76 [SKR-76], 10.1968- Архангельский комсомолец [Arkhangelskiy Komsomolets]   133 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 29.4.1957 16.12.1957 15.6.1958 stricken 5.1989
СКР-77 [SKR-77], 4.1979- Советский Дагестан [Sovetskiy Dagestan]   134 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.6.1957 20.1.1958 29.6.1958 stricken 5.1989
СКР-80 [SKR-80]   136 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.9.1957 13.3.1958 31.7.1958 stricken 6.1987
СКР-81 [SKR-81]   138 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 17.10.1957 15.4.1958 31.8.1958 stricken 6.1988
СКР-10 [SKR-10]   139 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 27.11.1957 30.5.1958 21.10.1958 stricken 6.1987
СКР-4 [SKR-4]   140 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 22.1.1958 30.7.1958 13.12.1958 stricken 5.1989
СКР-5 [SKR-5]   141 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 24.12.1957 1.9.1958 31.12.1958 stricken 5.1989
СКР-8 [SKR-8]   142 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 24.4.1958 18.10.1958 31.12.1958 stricken 4.1990
СКР-14 [SKR-14]   143 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 29.5.1958 9.1.1959 9/1959 stricken 6.1987
СКР-15 [SKR-15]   144 820 Yd, Kaliningrad 10.7.1958 27.2.1959 1.10.1959 stricken 4.1990
Зубр [Zubr]   41 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 29.8.1952 9.7.1953 31.5.1954 to Indonesia 4.1965 (Hang Tuah)
Бизон [Bizon]   42 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 4.10.1952 9.7.1953 30.6.1954 to Indonesia 4.1965 (Kakiali)
Аист [Aist]   43 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 25.12.1952 25.8.1953 27.8.1954 to Indonesia 4.1965 (Lambung Mangkurat)
Ласка [Laska]   44 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 5.3.1953 18.5.1954 25.10.1954 stricken 6.1981
Пеликан [Pelikan]   45 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 1.8.1953 18.4.1954 30.11.1954 to Indonesia 2.1964 (Nuku)
Пингвин [Pingvin]   46 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 10.9.1953 13.8.1954 31.12.1954 stricken 6.1988
Гепард [Gepard]   47 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 21.12.1953 13.8.1954 31.12.1954 stricken 5.1984


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1050

Displacement normal, t

1337

Length, m

90.9

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 TV-9 geared steam turbines sets, 2 KVG-57/28 boilers

Power, h. p.

20000

Max speed, kts

29

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts)1000(14.5)
Armament

3 x 1 - 100/56 B-34USMA, 2 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 MBU-200 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipmentGiuys-1M4, Lin', Don, Yakor' radars, Pegas-2M sonar, Bizan'-4 ECM suite
Complement

168



Standard scale images


<i>Rosomakha </i>1961
Rosomakha 1961


Graphics


Project 50 1980  
Project 50 1980  


Project history

Just as Project 56 was the simpler follow-on to the big Project 41, this was the simpler follow-on to the sophisticated Project 42, with its unit machinery. Apparently Stalin personally ordered the development of a smaller SKR, with a full-load displacement of 1200t. Development of a TTZ was ordered on 20 July 1950; the sketch design was to have been completed in September for presentation in October 1950. The technical design was completed and presented in March 1951, and the lead ship was laid down in the spring of 1951. The ship was designed by the new TsKB-820 (the design office associated with Yard 820, in Kaliningrad). To gain sufficient performance within the limited dimensions allowed, the ship used a pressure-fired steam powerplant, a type used in all subsequent Soviet steam combatants. For a time the designers also considered replacing single 100mm guns by twin enclosed mounts, and using 25mm guns instead of 37mm. In the end, Project 50 carried 15% less ammunition than its predecessor, Project 42; and one fewer 100mm and one fewer torpedo tube (ultimately, however, a lightweight triple tube was developed, and installed in many ships).

This class introduced a new fire control system, Sfera-50, with remote power control of the guns (SSSP-50 system) and a stabilized optical sight (SVP-42-50). The sight worked with the Yakor' radar. The sight was effective against both air and surface targets, but apparently computing time was excessive (34-40sec). The prototype was tested in Project 42.

The longitudinally-framed HTS hull was lightly armoured, with 7-8mm plating over the boiler and machinery spaces (7mm at the waterline, 8mm up to the main deck) and 7mm over gunshields and bridge. To hold down ship size, the unit machinery arrangement of the Project 42 was abandoned; both boilers were in one compartment; both turbines were in an adjacent compartment.

On trials the lead ship made 29.5kis at 1134t. In Sea State 6, the ship had to reduce speed to 23kts, and the guns could not be used at speeds of more than 16kts. Tactical diameter was 6.1 to 6.9 lengths at full speed. It is not clear why performance suffered so badly, compared to that of Project 42.

Modernizations

1959-1961, mostly: - 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 MBU-200 ASWRL, Giuys-1M4, Lin', Yakor' radars, Pegas-2M sonar; + 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 x 16 RBU-2500 Smerch ASWRL, Fut-N, Neptun-M, Yakor'-M radars, Pegas-3M sonar

1968-1972, some ships: + 2 x 2 - 25/112 2M-3M

1968-1972, some ships: + 2 x 1 - 45/69 21KM

1974, SKR-76: - 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + SPS-22, SPS-44, SPB-7 ECM suites

1970s, some ships: + MG-7 Braslet sonar

Naval service

No significant events.