OVERVIEW: The KASHIN class DDG is a gas turbine-powered, multi-role destroyer.

DETAILS:   The KASHIN class DDG was the first major warship equipped with gas turbine engines.  An additional five hulls were built for export to India. One ship, the OTVAZHNYY was lost after an explosion in her aft SA-N-1 SAM magazine on 30 August 1974.  One modified unit remains in service with the Black Sea Fleet.  All others were decommissioned between 1989-97.  

NOTES: Displacement: 3,750 tons standard
       Speed: 37-38 knts
       Range: 1,500 nm @ 36 knts; 4,000 nm @ 20 knts
       Complement: 280-330
       In Commission: 1963-to date
       Completed: 20	  

SOURCES: Polmar, Norman, and Siegfried Breyer. Guide to the Soviet Navy. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1983, 163-5 ; Federation of American Scientists. "Kashin Class - Project 61." Accessed November 17, 2013. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/61.htm ; Black Sea Fleet: Infomation Resource, "Large ASW Destroyer "Smetlivy" - Project 61M / Kashin Mod class." Accessed November 17, 2013. http://flot.sevastopol.info/eng/ship/largeaswdestroyers/smetlivy.htm.



