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
NameGepard class (Project 1166.1)
BuildersZelenodolsk Plant Gorky
Operators
Preceded by
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)
Built1991–2016
Planned10
Completed6
Active6
General characteristics
TypeFrigate
Displacement
  • 1,500 tons (standard)
  • 1,930 tons (full load)
LengthApprox 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)
Draught5.7 m (19 ft)
PropulsionTwin-shaft CODOG, FPP, 2 x 14,300 + 1 x 6,000 (kW)
Speed29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range4,000 nmi (7,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance20 days
Complement94
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
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.

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.