RFS Vitse Admiral Kulakov 626

 

Name:	Vice-Admiral Kulakov
Ordered:	13 July 1977
Builder:	Works in the name of A. A. Zhdanov, Leningrad
Laid down:	4 November 1977
Launched:	16 May 1980
Commissioned:	29 December 1981
Refit:	1991–2010
Status:	In active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Udaloy-class destroyer
Displacement:	6,200 t (6,102 long tons) standard 7,900 t (7,775 long tons) full load
Length:	163 m (535 ft)
Beam:	19 m (62 ft)
Draught:	7.8 m (26 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shaft COGAG, 4 gas turbines, 89,000 kW (120,000 hp)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	10,500 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	300
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × New Fregat MAE radar complex
Armament:	2 × 4 SS-N-14 anti submarine/ship missiles 4 × vertical launchers for SA-N-9 surface-to-air missiles 1 × Gibka (3M47) ADMS station 2 × 1 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 4 × 30 mm AK630 Gatling guns 2 × 4 553 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes, Type 53 ASW/ASuW torpedo 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried:	2 x Ka-27 'Helix' series helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Helicopter deck and hangar