Polnocny-class landing ship
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Polnocny-C
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Class overview | |
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Name | Polnochny |
Builders | , Poland |
Operators |
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Succeeded by | |
Subclasses |
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In commission | 1967 |
Completed | 108 |
Active | 9 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Landing ship, tank |
Displacement | 834 tons full load (Polnocny-B) |
Length | 73 m (239 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | 2 Soviet Kolomna 40-D two stroke diesels, 2 shafts, 4,400 bhp |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Range | 1,000 nmi (2,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
Capacity | 12 BMP-2
4 Main battle tanks
250 tons |
Troops | 250 |
Complement | 41 |
Armament |
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The Polnocny (or Polnochny)-class ships are
Characteristics
The Polnocny-class ships are classified as medium landing ships in the Russian Navy, and are loosely equivalent to Western tank landing ships. They are equipped with a bow ramp that allows beach landings. The Polnocny-C version can carry 12 BMP-2 armored personnel carriers, or 4 Main Battle Tanks, or 250 infantrymen with their weapons like 82 mm Mortars and ATGMs, or 250 tons of rations & stores. Unlike their Western counterparts, these ships can provide substantial fire support for landed troops with their onboard multiple rocket launchers. Other armament consists of anti-aircraft guns and short-range surface-to-air missiles.
Variants
The Polnocny class comprises several sub-types that vary in size and capacity:
- Polnocny-A (Project 770) (46 built):
- Displacement: 800 tons full load
- Length: 73 m
- Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h)
- Polnocny-B (Project 771) (36 built):
- Displacement: 834 tons full load
- Length: 73 m
- Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
- Polnocny-C (Project 773) (24 built)
- Displacement: 1150 tons full load
- Length: 81.3 m
- Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
- Modified Polnocny-C (Project 776) Amphibious Assault Command Ship (1 built - ORP Grunwald)
- Displacement: 1253 tons full load
- Length: 81.3 m
- Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
- Polnocny-D (Project 773U) (4 built)
- Displacement: 1233 tons full load
- Length: 81.3 m
- Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
- Aircraft facility: One helicopter platform
- NS-722 class (1 built in 2002)
- Displacement: 1,410 tons full load
- Length: 88.7 m
- Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h)
- Aircraft facility: One helicopter platform
Operational service
Built in large quantities, the Polnocny-class ships were once the mainstay of the Soviet amphibious forces, and gave the
Current operators
- Algeria − 1 Polnocny-B armed with a twin AK-230 gun as of 2023[1]
- Azerbaijan − 1 Polnocny-A and 1 Polnocny-B as of 2023[2]
Former operators
- Angola[5] − Non-operational by 2004[6]
- Bulgaria[7]
- Cuba[8]
- Egypt − 3 Polnocny-A[9]
- Ethiopia[10]
- India − Operated 2 Polnocny-A ships and 8 Polnocny-D (latter operated as Kumbhir-class) from 1966 to 2024[11]
- Indonesia[12][13]
- Iraq[14]
- Libya − 3 Polnocny-D[15]
- Poland − 1 Polnocny-C was converted into an amphibious command vessel[16]
- Russia − Operated 1 Polnocny-B as a logistic support ship as late as 2004[17]
- Somalia[18]
- Soviet Union[19] − Passed on to successor states
- Ukraine - 1 Polnocny-C, the Yuri Olefirenko, no longer in service as of 2023[20]
- South Yemen[21] − Passed on to the unified Yemeni state
- Yemen − 3 Polnocny-B in poor state by 2004[22]
See also
References
- ^ IISS 2023, p. 316.
- ^ IISS 2023, p. 173.
- ^ IISS 2023, p. 355.
- ^ IISS 2023, p. 300.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 121.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 8.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 83.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 190.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 198.
- ^ IISS 1989, pp. 128.
- ^ "INS CHEETAH, GULDAR AND KUMBHIR DECOMMISSIONED AFTER 40 YEARS OF GLORIOUS SERVICE". 13 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ Moore 1974, p. 171
- ^ "Medium landing ships - Project 770". russianships.info. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 102.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 446.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 563.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 621.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 113.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 36.
- ^ IISS 2023, pp. 202−203.
- ^ IISS 1989, p. 118.
- ^ Saunders RN 2004, p. 910.
Bibliography
- Moore, Capt. John (1974). ISBN 978-0354005067.
- Watts, A.J.(2006); Jane's warship recognition guide; Collins; ISBN 0-06-084992-4
- Jarosław Ciślak; Polska Marynarka Wojenna 1995 (Polish Navy 1995); Lampart, Warsaw 1995; ISBN 978-83-86776-08-5
- Saunders RN, Commodore Stephen, ed. (1 July 2004). Jane's Fighting Ships 2004-2005. Janes Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-2623-3.
- ISBN 978-0-08-037569-4.
- ISBN 978-1032508955.