The frigate is armed with Kalibr-NK cruise
missiles, a medium-range surface-to-air missile system, an aircraft battery, an
antisubmarine rocket launcher and torpedoes.
MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/. Russian Navy’s brand-new guided-missile
frigate Admiral Essen has returned to its home base, Sevastopol, after
accomplishing a mission in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the navy’s permanent
task force, Captain 1st Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, the fleet’s spokesman, said
on Friday.
"While being in the navy’s permanent task force, the crew fulfilled combat tasks by delivering missile strikes on terrorist groups in Syria," the officer said. "The crew of the new frigate under command of Captain 2nd Rank Anton Kuprin has been on a long-distance voyage for over two months."
"While being in the navy’s permanent task force, the crew fulfilled combat tasks by delivering missile strikes on terrorist groups in Syria," the officer said. "The crew of the new frigate under command of Captain 2nd Rank Anton Kuprin has been on a long-distance voyage for over two months."
The Admiral
Essen is a second frigate of Project 1135.6. She was commissioned into the
navy’s Black Sea Fleet on 7 June 2016. The frigate is armed with Kalibr-NK
cruise missiles, a Shtil-1 medium-range surface-to-air missile system, 100mm
A-190 shipboard automatic artillery gun, an aircraft battery, an antisubmarine
rocket launcher and torpedoes. The Admiral Essen embarks one Ka-27 (or Ka-31)
helicopter. The ship displaces 3,620 tonnes, measuring 124.8 meters in length.
Source: ITAR-TASS 23-09-2017
