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Udaloy. as seen during (he ship's first .Atlantic \oyage. The empty circular probable SAM director platforms can be seen abose the
bridge and abo*e the sliding doors entering the twm helicopter platforms. Sole the four paired slacks for the gas turbine propulsion
plant. (Photo— USNI
UDALOY (the name means "courageous"),
the Soviet Navy's newest and largest destroyer,
deployed from the Baltic to join the Northern
Fleet in October of 1981. The second ship of the
Udaloy class, VUse-Admiral Kulukov, was
running trials off Leningrad at the same time.
The Udaloy's are typed by the Soviet Navy as
BPK's (Bol'shoy Protivolodochnyy KorabV) —
large antisubmarine ship — a type designation
created in the early 1960s as part of the response
to the US Navy's Polaris programme and since
applied to ships of the Kresta, Kashin and Kara
classes.
Rather than employing code names for new Soviet ship
classes, NATO now assigns the new ships provisional names until
the actual name for the first ship of a class becomes known; thus
before L'daloy's name became known, the design was known as
the "Bal-Com-3" (for Baltic Combatant 3 — under the new
nomenclature system, the third new major combatant design to
have been discovered building in (he Baltic area).
As the type designation BPK implies. Udaloy is primarily an
ASW ship. The principal ASW weapons are the eight SS-N-14
cruise missiles carried in the two quadruple nests of fihrcglasssheathed
tubes mounted beneath the bridge wings. Aft, a twin
side-by-side hangar houses two Ka-25 Hormone A ASW helicopters
or — as were carried by Udaloy on its maiden voyage —
two newly-introduced helicopters nicknamed "Helix" by the
west.
Udaloy is the first Soviet combatant smaller than the
AfosAiaclass guided missile/helicopter cruisers to carry more
than one aircraft. Rounding out the ASW ordnance package arc
two 12-tubed RBU-6000 rocket launchers, just forward of the
hangar, and two quadruple nests of 53 cm torpedo tubes on the
Udaloy \ segmented portside hangar top has been dra»n forward main deck, just abaft the forecastle break.
and the hangar deck cle\ator is in the donn position, permitting For self-defence, Udaloy carries two single rapid-fire 100
a wet* info the interior of the ship. To starboard is a micro*a*e mm dual-purpose gunmounts forward, while flanking the after
landing control radar mounted in a hot *hose legs straddle a pair of stacks are four 6-barrelled 30 mm Catling AA guns.
large searchlight, iPhoto — USK)
Visible only in aerial photographs are eight 2 metre diameter
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