ST.PETERSBURG. April 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Admiral Chabanenko large anti-submarine ship of Russia's Northern Fleet will leave for Great Britain on Tuesday, chief of the fleet's press service Colonel Vladimir Navrotsky told Interfax-Military News Agency.
According to him, the vessel will participate in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. It will arrive in Liverpool on May 1 and sail back to Russia on May 6.
The voyage takes place under the flag of surface ships squadron commander Vice Admiral Gennady Radzevsky.
The vessel's voyage to Atlantic takes place simultaneously with the combat training of crews in the open sea. Training of sonarmen aimed at finding and identifying various surface and underwater targets will be held during the voyage.
Moreover, vessel survivability games and theoretical exercises with commanders of artillery, mine and torpedo, electromechanical combat sections and specialists responsible for aerial and surface situation will take place.
The Admiral Chabanenko (Project 1155.1, NATO designation Udaloy-22) was laid down at the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad in 1990 and set afloat in 1992.
The vessel has a displacement of 7,700 to 8,900 tonnes, length of more than 193 meters and width of 19 meters. The powerplant consists of two regular-speed gas turbines and two full-speed gas turbines. The four turbines ensure a speed of up to 30 knots. The vessel's range is 3,000 miles and endurance 30 days.
Ships of Project 1155.1 are armed with cruise missiles, a universal 130mm artillery system, two four-tube torpedo tubes, anti-aircraft missiles and two deck helicopters. They are capable of offering effective counteraction to the enemy's submarines and surface ships.