MINSK (127) Landing ship

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Built as a Landing ship under yard no 775/18 after a ship design of 775 II by Stocznia Polnocna, Gdansk, Poland for the Russian Navy.
Launched as the BDK-43 one of the Ropucha class.
Displacement 2,812 ton standard, 4,076 full load, dim. 112.5 x 15.01 x 4.26m (draught),
Fitted out with two ramps, bow and stern.
Powered by 2 Zgoda-Sulzer, 16ZVB40/48 diesel engines, each 9,600 hp. Speed 17.59 knots.
Range 6.000 at 12 knots.
Endurance 30 days.
Capacity: 10 × main battle tanks, and 340 troops or 12 × BTR APC , and 340 troops or 3 × main battle tanks, 3 ×  2S9 Nona-SPC, 5 x MTL2S9 Nona-S SPG, 5 × MT-LB- APC, 4 trucks and 313 troops or 500 tons of cargo
Crew 98.
Armament: Strela 2 × AK-725 twin 57 mm (2.2 in) DP guns
• 4 × 8  8trela 2 SAM launchers
• 2 × 22 A-215 Grad-M rocket launchers.3
30 May 1983 commissioned, one of the Baltic fleet.
2000 renamed in MINSK (127)

Russian landing ship MINSK (Russian: Минск) is a Ropucha-class landing ship of the Russian Navy. The ship was built in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland for the Soviet Navy, and was commissioned in 1983. MINSK is a part of the Russian Baltic Fleet. On 13 September 2023, the ship was damaged in a Ukrainian missile attack on Sevastopol Shipyard.

MINSK was transferred to Sevastopol, travelling through the Dardanelles on 9 February 2022, as part of a fleet of six landing ships brought into the Black Sea on what Russia called exercises, whilst it denied preparing for an attack on Ukraine. At the time there was some speculation that Russia might make an amphibious attack on Ukraine.

During 2023, a number of different attacks were made on the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, damaging various ships including two others of the Ropucha class. After the initial attacks, some of the fleet appeared to have been dispersed from Sevastopol, but MINSK remained in port.

On 13 September 2023, Russian officials reported aerial and marine attacks on Sevastopol. They said that three naval drones had been destroyed but some cruise missiles had hit the dockyard causing fires and damage to MINSK and the Kilo-class submarine ROSTOV-NA -DONU (B-237). Various sources reported that the attacks were made with the French and UK-supplied Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles launched from a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft. Based on open-source imagery, the UK Ministry of Defence has assessed that the vessel has "almost certainly been functionally destroyed" by the strike. Ukraine claimed the two ships were "likely damaged beyond repair", which the Russian government denied and stated they would be repaired and returned to full operational status.

The Ukrainians later also claimed that the strike killed 62 Russian personnel, and that many of them were aboard the ship because MINSK had been scheduled to depart on 14 September for combat duty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi: ki/Russian_landing_ship_Minsk
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