![]() Mirazh in Sevastopol, 2007
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History | |
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Namesake | Mirazh |
Builder | Almaz Shipyard, Leningrad |
Yard number | 77 |
Laid down | 30 August 1983 |
Launched | 19 August 1986 |
Commissioned | 30 December 1986 |
Decommissioned | 23 October 2020 |
Identification | See Pennant numbers |
Status | Decommissioned |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Nanuchka III-class corvette |
Displacement |
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Length | 59.3 m (194 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 12.6 m (41 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 60 |
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Armament |
Mirazh was a Nanuchka-class corvette in the Soviet Navy and later the Russian Navy.
Small missile ships of the Project 1234 according to NATO classification a Nanuchka-class corvette is a series of Soviet small missile ships (MRK) of the third rank built at shipyards of the USSR from 1967 to 1992. [1]
The type consists of three series of subprojects:
By the name of the project code, the ships received the nickname gadflies in the navy. IRAs of Project 1234 were supplied to the Navy of four countries of the world: the USSR, Algeria, Libya and India. Libyan ones were destroyed during the NATO military operation in the summer of 2011; Indian ships of this project were withdrawn from the Indian Navy in 1999-2004.
The ships of the project were actively operated in all four fleets of the Soviet Navy and during the 1970-1980s carried out combat services in the World Ocean. They left a noticeable mark on the history of Soviet shipbuilding and are currently being gradually withdrawn from the combat strength of the Russian fleet. [1] So, if at the beginning of 2001 in the Russian Navy there were 2 ships of project 1234 and 18 ships of Project 1234.1, [2] then by 2006 all ships of project 1234 were withdrawn from the Navy and only 12 ships of the project remained in Project 1234.1 and 1 ship of Project 1234.7. [3] [4]
Mirazh was laid down on 30 August 1983 at Almaz Shipyard, Leningrad. Launched on 19 August 1986 and commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on 30 December 1986. [5]
During the Russo-Georgian War, on 10 August 2008, Mirazh engaged in combat against several Georgian missile boats. During the fight, Mirazh turned the battle into a Russian victory when she sank a Georgian naval vessel with her missiles. Initially, it was disputed which ship she sank, but most agree it to be the Georgian missile boat Tbilisi. [6]
In October 2020, Mirazh (the last in the Black Sea Fleet of this class) was decommissioned.
Date | Pennant number [5] |
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1986 | 616 |
1986 | 603 |
1988 | 613 |
1990 | 617 |