Gepard-class frigate

Quang Trung - one of the two ships in the second batch of Gepard 3.9 built for the Vietnam People's Navy
Class overview
Name	Gepard class (Project 1166.1)
Builders	Zelenodolsk Plant Gorky
Operators	Russian Navy  Vietnam People's Navy
Preceded by	Koni class Grisha class
Subclasses	Project 11661 Tatarstan Project 11661K Dagestan Project 11661E Gepard: Gepard 3.9: Batch I; Batch II Gepard 5.1 Gepard 5.3
Cost	11661E (Gepard 3.9 batch I): US$175 million per ship 11661E (Gepard 3.9 batch II): US$350 million per ship (price included ammunition, maintenance packages signed between Vietnam and Russia)
Built	1991–2016
Planned	10
Completed	6
Active	6
General characteristics
Type	Frigate
Displacement	1,500 tons (standard) 1,930 tons (full load)
Length	Approx 102.4 m (336 ft) (Gepard 3.9 batch II)
Beam	13.09 m (42.9 ft) Approx 15 m (49 ft) (Gepard 3.9)
Draught	5.7 m (19 ft)
Propulsion	Twin-shaft CODOG, FPP, 2 x 14,300 + 1 x 6,000 (kW)
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance	20 days
Complement	94
Sensors and processing systems	MR-231-1 Pal navigation radar Mineral-ME shipborne multifunctional radar system (including guidance and target designation functions for cruise missiles) 5P-26/MR-352 Pozitiv-ME1/-ME1.2 3D active shipborne radars 5P-10E-03E Laska fire control radar for naval gun and CIWS Sonar: MGK-335EM-03 with under-keel antenna
Electronic warfare & decoys	EW Suite: 2 × Bell Shroud passive intercept, 2 × Bell Squat jammers, Countermeasures: 4 × 16-barreled Pk-16 decoy launchers
Armament	Artillery: 1x 76.2mm AK-176M/MA naval gun 2x AK-630M CIWS (Tatarstan and VPN configuration) Cruise missiles: 8x UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr missiles (Dagestan) (up to 16x cells in configurations offered to the export market; options for Club-N, Yakhont and BrahMos missile systems are available) 2x quadruple launchers (2×4) Kh-35 anti-ship missiles (Tatarstan and VPN's Batch I & II configuration) Anti-submarine warfare: 2x 533mm DTA-53 twin-tube (2×2) torpedo launchers (not featured on VPN's Batch I) Naval mines Anti-air warfare: 1x Palash/Palma-SU CIWS featured with 8x Sosna-R short range air defense missiles (Dagestan and VPN configuration) 1x Osa-M twin-launcher for 20x 9M33M short range air defense missiles (Tatarstan) 12x Shtil-1 VLS cells for 9M317ME medium-range surface-to-air missiles (offered configuration for the export market)
Notes	[1]

The Gepard-class frigates, Russian designation Project 11661, is a Russian class of frigates that were intended as successors to the earlier Koni-class frigates and Grisha, and Parchim-class corvettes. The first unit of the class, Yastreb (Hawk), was laid down at the Zelenodol'sk Zavod shipyard at Tatarstan in 1991. She was launched in July 1993, after which she began fitting out; fitting was nearly completed by late 1995, when it was suspended due to lack of funds. Renamed Tatarstan, the ship was finally completed in July 2002, and became the flagship of the Caspian Flotilla. She has two sister ships, Albatross (renamed Dagestan), and Burevestnik (Storm Petrel), which was still under construction as of 2012^[update].

Vietnam is the main operator of the class with its navy having commissioned 4 frigates - twice the size of Russia's Project 11661 inventory - and having plans to order at least 2 more.