According to information published by Tass on July 6, 2022, the Pacific Fleet’s frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov and corvette Gremyashchy practiced mine countermeasures during an exercise in the East China Sea.
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Russian Navy's Udaloy class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (Picture source: Forums.airbase)
The seamen also practiced anti-frogman warfare while staying in an unsafe roadstead, grenade throwing with the use of the DP-64 double-barrel handheld countersubversion grenade launcher and hand grenades. The destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov and the corvette Gremyashchy continue their long-distance voyage.
About the destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov
Marshal Shaposhnikov is a Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy commissioned in 1985. The vessel serves in the Russian Pacific Fleet. She was commissioned in 1985.
The destroyer has a length of 163 m (535 ft), a beam of 19.3 m (63 ft), and a draught of 7.8 m (26 ft). She can reach a top speed of 35 knots (65 km/h. 40 mph).
Marshal Shaposhnikov is powered by two-shaft COGAG and four gas turbines developing 89 000 kW (120 000 hp). She can carry up a complement of 300 sailors.
They are armed with 16 VLS cells for Kalibr, Oniks, Zircon, and Otvet missiles, eight 3M24 anti-ship missiles, 64 VLS cells for Kinzhal surface-to-air missiles, 100 mm AK-190 gun, four 30 mm Gatling guns, two 4 553 mm torpedo tubes and two RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers.
Marshal Shaposhnikov is powered by two-shaft COGAG and four gas turbines developing 89 000 kW (120 000 hp). She can carry up a complement of 300 sailors.
