Admiral Makarov in 2018
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History | |
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Russia | |
Name | Admiral Makarov |
Namesake | Stepan Makarov |
Builder | Yantar Shipyard |
Laid down | 29 February 2012[2][3] |
Launched | 2 September 2015[1] |
Commissioned | 27 December 2017 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | 124.8 m (409 ft) |
Beam | 15.2 m (50 ft) |
Draught | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 4,850 nmi (8,980 km; 5,580 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Endurance | 30 days |
Complement | 200 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament | |
Aircraft carried | 1 × Ka-27 series helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Helipad and hangar for one helicopter |
Admiral Makarov is an Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate of the Russian Navy, part of the Black Sea Fleet based at Sevastopol. She was laid down at the Yantar Shipyard in February 2012 and commissioned on 25 December 2017.[5] She is the most recently built of her class, and the third of six ships that had been planned in the class as of November 2014[update].[6][7]
In July 2018, the frigate took part in Russia's Main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg.[8]
On 18 August 2018, Admiral Makarov set sail from the Baltic Sea for the Black Sea and sailed through the English Channel on 21 August.[9][10] She had been spotted while in transit there by HMS Queen Elizabeth in the English Channel on 18 August during her maiden voyage.[11][12] After shadowing the British supercarrier, Admiral Makarov arrived at her permanent base in occupied Sevastopol in early October.[13]
On 5 November 2018, the press service of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet announced the frigate had left Sevastopol to join the Russian naval group in the eastern Mediterranean.[14]
In 2022, Admiral Makarov—along with Admiral Essen—took part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, targeting a Ukrainian oil refinery and fuel depots in the suburbs of Odesa with cruise missiles.[15]
On 6 May 2022, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko reported on Telegram that Admiral Makarov had been struck and badly damaged by a Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile while stationed near Snake Island.[16][17] Some reports said the ship was on fire in the Black Sea,[17] Dumskaya, a Ukrainian news site, said Russian forces had sent helicopters to rescue the crew.[16] However, neither Russian nor Western military forces confirmed the claim.[16] In the event, on 7 May, the adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovych said that the report was a "misunderstanding", and that the vessel attacked near Snake Island was actually a Serna-class landing craft,[18] apparently hit by a missile launched by a Baykar Bayraktar TB2 drone.[19]
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