The Russian Pacific Fleet has received a unique Star Wars ship, the Marshal Krylov. Space Marine Ship Wing Ship

"Marshal Krylov" will be able to track the orbital constellations of satellites and manage squadrons of ships.

Russian military sailors received a floating "star wars headquarters". For the needs of the Pacific Fleet, the Marshal Krylov space monitoring ship, which has no analogues in the world, has been modernized. Its equipment allows real-time control of ships, aircraft and ground forces and conduct operations in outer space. The ship can solve not only military tasks. It will be used by Roscosmos to track rocket launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. For a set of on-board radio-electronic systems, Marshal Krylov has already received the nickname "Star Wars Headquarters" in the Navy.

The Main Command of the Navy said that work on the modernization of the Marshal Krylov measuring complex ship has almost been completed. Trial tests were carried out during the strategic exercises "Vostok-2018". After the completion of all work, "Marshal Krylov" should become the ship's control center of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet).

The exit of the ship to the open sea was announced before the start of the exercises. True, the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not name which ship would take part in them. Before the start of Vostok-2018, at a briefing for foreign military attachés, the head General Staff Armed Forces General of the Army Valery Gerasimov casually noted that the fleet will test new equipment.

Ships of a completely new class, which provide control of groupings of forces in ocean waters, Valery Gerasimov said.

"Marshal Krylov" project 1914.1 - the only ship of this class in the Russian Navy. Now he is listed in the 114th brigade of the Pacific Fleet.

"Marshal Krylov" is designed to provide testing and development of new types of rocket and space systems, launching the means of the Aerospace Forces into orbit, search, rescue and evacuation of crews and descent vehicles that have landed on water. And also for the detection of ships, submarines and aircraft, relaying all kinds of information.

Prior to modernization, it was most often used to provide communication between cosmonauts and the mission control center (MCC) of the Roscosmos state corporation. After the upgrade, the ship will be used, among other things, to track missile launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome.

The vessel underwent modernization at the Dalzavod ship repair center in Vladivostok. A new aft antenna complex was installed on the ship. The main and auxiliary engines, navigational and radio equipment were repaired.

The domestic fleet will receive a one-of-a-kind ship, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

- "Marshal Krylov" will be indispensable in the management of remote groupings of ships, - said Dmitry Boltenkov. - Russia began to return to the oceans. In fact, the Mediterranean squadron, which existed under the USSR, was recreated. It is possible that the squadron will be recreated in the Indian Ocean. In this case, the ship will be especially useful to the fleet.

"Marshal Krylov" will be able to solve multifaceted tasks, said the head of the St. Petersburg club of submariners, Captain First Rank Igor Kurdin. The ship can provide communication in the most remote corners of the world, acting as a signal repeater, he explained.

The ship of the measuring complex "Marshal Krylov" is the second ship of the project 1914, but it was built according to the modified project 1914.1. Named after Marshal N.I. Krylov. Currently, this is the only ship of the control and measuring complex in the Russian Navy, performing the tasks of providing flight design tests of new models. rocket and space technology (spacecraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, launch vehicles, etc.).

Project 1914 was developed by the Baltsudoproekt Central Design Bureau.

On July 24, 1982, the hull of the ship (serial number 02515) was laid down at the Leningrad Admiralty Association. Launched on July 24, 1987. December 30, 1989 was introduced into the Russian Navy. On February 23, 1990, the Naval flag of the USSR was hoisted on the ship in a solemn ceremony.

Main characteristics:

Type of ship: Steel, two screw, with an extended forecastle and a two-tier superstructure, 14 compartments.

Displacement 23780 tons. Length 211.2 meters, width 27.7 meters, draft 8 meters. Travel speed up to 22 knots. Autonomy 120 days. The crew is about 350 people. Two Ka-27 search and rescue helicopters can be on board.

Main engine: Diesel hydraulic gear unit DGZA-6U. Power 22 MW.

On July 24, 2012, the ship celebrated its 25th anniversary since its launch. In order to maintain units and mechanisms in good condition, the ship was put on a lengthy dock repair in Vladivostok, during which the entire range of work on support systems was completed. On December 19, 2012, the ship of the Pacific Fleet "Marshal Krylov" under the command of Captain 1st Rank Igor Shalyna went to sea to perform tasks for its intended purpose, after repairs.

April 14, 2014 under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Boris Kulik went to sea to perform course tasks. In October, where repairs and deep modernization will be carried out at Dalzavod. According to a message dated December 03 in Vladivostok at the Dalzavod Ship Repair Center. February 23, 2015 from the day of raising the Naval flag. According to a message dated April 11, 2016, Dalzavod, where the ship was undergoing routine repairs, arrived at the Slavyansky Shipyard in the Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai. In the near future, the shaft line will be centered and new propellers will be installed at the Slavyansk Shipyard. According to a message dated March 10, 2017, by July, the Dalzavod Ship Repair Center will carry out a comprehensive repair and modernization of the ship. According to a message dated June 19, 2019, for the first time will take naval parade in honor of the Day of the Navy in Vladivostok.

Andrei Vladimirovich, how many types of antennas are on the ship?

A lot of. There are optical measuring instruments - a photographic recording station, which consists of six large cameras that take pictures on aerial film (its width is 18 cm!). The price of one reel is about 18 thousand rubles. This device is a Russian development: a phototheodolite with a huge lens. True, the maximum speed is only 4 frames per second. There are optical measuring instruments on the ship that operate in the infrared range - radiometers. There are trajectory antennas. This is the same radiotelemetry complex.

The one hidden in the white dome?

Yes, it measures the flight path of an object. The telemetry station measures the characteristics of an object: vibration, temperature, etc. There are also antennas for satellite communications, shipborne space communications ...

Why is a ship needed to perform all these tasks? ground stations not enough?

We have a very large country, there are also a lot of ground-based measuring complexes (the easternmost one, by the way, is located in Kamchatka in the village of Vulkanny, Yelizovsky district), each of them rents its own site. If, for example, the rocket upper stage is disconnected outside the reach of these ground points, then our ship comes into play, we approach the required point and shoot.

Our ship will be especially relevant with the commissioning of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This southernmost test site is designed for manned cosmonautics.

Is it your responsibility to evacuate the capsules of the descent vehicles?

Yes, the ship has a special onboard lifting device for evacuating the capsule with astronauts. It's not just a winch. This is an arrow to which a metal mesh is suspended, it descends like a net, grabs the capsule and lifts it aboard. I personally saw this operation only once, in 1992: "Marshal Krylov" participated in the project "Space flight" Europe - America-500 "". space object launched from Baikonur, we were in the Seattle area. At that moment, a 7-point storm broke out there. If the launch had been postponed, due to the rotation of the Earth, the capsule would have fallen into the sea 300 kilometers from us, we would not have had time to pick it up. Our commander decided not to postpone the launch. Right during the storm, we safely caught the capsule, lifted it and brought it to Seattle, where it has since been kept in the “Aviation Museum” of this city. At the same time, for the first time, foreigners got on board the Marshal Krylov.

Are there analogues of the ship "Marshal Krylov" in the world?

The Chinese have similar ships, but they are slightly different. There are definitely no analogues in Russia. In addition, Marshal Krylov is one of the few helicopter-carrying ships in Kamchatka and one of the most big ships Pacific Fleet. The ships of our brigade were the first to test helicopters at sea.

What else is your ship the best?

The people here are the best. They serve not for "big shoulder straps", but because they love their job. Our ship is one big experiment. Nowhere are those measuring stations that we have, there is no sample. Everything is unique! And in this uniqueness and "plus" and "minus" of our ship. The institutes do not graduate specialists especially for us. Everything is specific. It seems that the nut is also tightened, but not like that, in a marine way. I have 104 people serving in the measuring complex, including 28 officers and 46 midshipmen. Officers need to grow up, because every officer who comes to the service, as they say, dreams of becoming an admiral. And there is nowhere to grow. But in our Navy it is usually, "where he was born, he came in handy there." That is, if you come to serve on this ship, you continue to work here. Even the commander of the ship (the previous one) came to us as an engineer in the measuring complex with the rank of lieutenant, went through all the positions, after which he became a commander. I don't like being a commander, I like taking measurements.

When did you come to serve on the ship?

July 27, 1992, I was 22 years old. Now 44. Next year pension. Himself from Kazakhstan from the city of Alma-Ata, he graduated from the Republican Physics and Mathematics School.

KIK "Marshal Krylov" - a ship of the measuring complex of project 1914.1. Today this is the last CMC out of 8 ships capable of working with space and intercontinental objects. The base is the city of Vilyuchinsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula. The main developer is Balsudoproekt. The emergence of new measurement and control ships, completely built from "A" to "Z" in the Soviet Union - logical decision with the "arms race" that existed at that time.

The ship "Marshal Krylov" - video

The ship embodies the experience of previously built ships, their modernization and equipping with new equipment. It was planned to install the most modern equipment on the ship, expand the capabilities of deck helicopters and the entire functionality of the ship. The ship was laid down at the Leningrad shipbuilding facilities on 06/22/1982. The built ship left the stocks on 07/24/1987. The ship arrived at its base in the middle of 1990, passing not like other ships along the Northern Route, but through the Suez Canal. In 1998, the ship changes its classification for the last time and becomes a communications ship.

The ships of projects 1914 and 1914.1 outwardly differed only in the presence of the second Fregat radar on the second hull with an improved antenna. Some changes affected the interior layout of the premises. Installed powerful monitoring tools allow you to perform additional tasks. The ship's hull received an anti-ice belt according to class L1. The ship has:
- small foremast;
- main mast with interior rooms;
- mizzen mast with interiors;
- two swimming pools, one on the superstructure deck, the other in the gym;
- helicopter deck and hangars for storing helicopters;
- installations TKB-12 with ammunition 120 lighting shots "Light";
- the ability to install 6 AK-630, two in the bow and four in the stern of the ship;
- two propellers with adjustable pitch, 4.9 meters in diameter;
- two propulsion-steering retractable columns with a propeller diameter of 1.5 meters;
- two thrusters with a propeller diameter of 1.5 meters;
- bulb with GAS resonator;
- car ZIL-131;
- watercraft - 4 closed-type lifeboats, work and command boats, 2 rowing yawls;
- a unique device for lifting space descent vehicles;
- automated landing complex "Privod-B"

Project 1914 and 1914.1 ships are one of the most comfortable naval ships. The ship is equipped with:
- the Medblok complex, consisting of an operating room, an X-ray room, a dental room, a treatment room and 2 cabins for astronauts;
- a club room with a stage and a balcony;
- gym with showers;
- spacious bath;
- library;
- linen room;
- office;
- salon;
- ship shop;
- dining room and two cabins;

Crew berth equipment:
- Urgent service - 4-bed cabins with a washbasin, wardrobes;
- midshipmen - 2-berth cabins with a washbasin, wardrobes;
- officers, junior staff - 2-berth cabins with shower;
- officers - single cabins;
- command - block cabins;
- the commander of the ship - a block-cabin with a saloon for celebrations.

The Project 1914.1 ship, even today, is one of the largest and most equipped ships of the Russian Navy. He is recent achievements Soviet scientists and designers, of which we can distinguish:
- two-way satellite communication complex "Storm";
- Aurora space communication equipment, which provides telephone communication with the Central Command and astronauts in orbit;
- equipment "Zefir-T", one of the most important complexes for working with antennas and objects;
- Zefir-A equipment, a measurement complex that is unique even today, the main advantage is the information processing algorithms used, the most powerful complex of calculations;
- photo registration station "Dyatel". Although in terms of its parameters it works like an ordinary human eye, technologically it turned out to be a super-complex complex - it has no analogues in the world;
- direction finder-radiometer "Kunica" - equipment of the last chance to collect information about the controlled object;
- navigation complex "Andromeda". Another representative of the unique Soviet thought - calculates the coordinates of a given point and all related characteristics;

The performance characteristics of the ship "Marshal Krylov"

Photo of the ship "Marshal Krylov" in its parking lot

"Marshal Krylov"- the ship of the measuring complex, the second ship of project  1914.1, was part of the 35th brigade of ships of the measuring complex (5th combined hydrographic expedition (OGE-5).

The ship is designed to provide flight design tests and development of new models of rocket and space complexes (spacecraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, launch vehicles, upper stages, etc.); launching into orbit and entering combat duty of aerospace forces; search, rescue and evacuation of crews and descent vehicles of space objects that have landed on water; detection of ships, submarines and aircraft; relaying all types of information, ensuring communication between astronauts and the flight control center.

The ship was designed under the guidance of designer D. G. Sokolov at the Baltsudoproekt Central Design Bureau and built under serial number No. 02515 at the Leningrad Admiralty Association. The ship was ordered by the Main Directorate of Space Assets.

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Design

The ship has a steel hull with a 2-tier superstructure and an elongated forecastle, has 14 compartments. To perform tasks from the northern latitudes, the ship's hull received an ice belt according to the class  L1. The total displacement is 23.7 thousand tons. Length - 211 meters, width - 27.5 meters, draft - 8 meters, speed up to 22 knots. The ship is capable of receiving two deck helicopters of the Ka-27 type, for this there is a helipad equipped with night signal lights on the deck, 22 meters wide, and two hangars for their storage. They also have a supply of aviation fuel of about 105 tons. The payload of the ship is 7 thousand tons. The reserves of diesel fuel amount to 5,300 tons, more than 1,000 tons of water, of which more than 400 tons are drinking water. The autonomy of swimming is up to 3 months. The crew of the ship - 339 people, taking into account the air group. 104 people serve in the measuring complex, including 28 officers and 46 midshipmen.

Long years this ship was unique in the world fleet.

KIK "Marshal Krylov" built according to a slightly modified project 1914.1 and differs from the ships of project 1914 in the presence of a radar station [“[Frigate (radar) | Frigate]]”, as well as the next generation of shipborne radio equipment. Changes also affected the interior layout of the premises. According to the results of state tests of the KIK "Marshal Nedelin", the bulkheads of the Moscow Region were additionally strengthened and soundproofing was installed.

Living conditions

Cabins are four local, for military personnel under the contract, and two local for midshipmen, each cabin is equipped with a washbasin. For the leisure of the crew, a gym and sports halls, table tennis and billiards are equipped. There is a concert hall for 130 people, where films are shown, concerts are held, and briefings are given. Officers' canteen and large wardroom.

Power point

Two diesel-hydraulic gear units (DGZA), each consisting of two 68E diesel engines and an auxiliary boiler KABB-10/1 with a capacity of 10 t / h. Power supply is provided by eight diesel generators 6D40 with a total capacity of 12,000 kW three-phase alternating current and a voltage of 380 V. Two propellers with adjustable pitch, 5 × 2.5 m in size, weighing 15 tons, two propulsion and steering retractable columns with a propeller diameter of 1.5 meters and two thrusters with a propeller diameter of 1.5 meters. When driving in an economic way, fuel consumption is about 60 tons per day, oil - about 1 ton.

Armament

The ship is equipped with a TKB-12 with an ammunition load of 120 Svet lighting rounds and it is possible to install 6 AK-630s, two in the bow and four from the stern - the MP-123 Vympel control system.

Ship complexes and systems

• "Andromeda" - navigation complex
• Radar "Fregat" - a three-coordinate ship-based radar station
• NRS "Volga" - marine circular long-range radar station operating in the meter wavelength range
• NRS "Vaigach" - two complexes
• MGK-335 "Platinum" - hydroacoustic complex
• OGAS MG-349 "Uzh" - hydroacoustic system lowered on the foot
• MG-7 "Bracelet" - two sets of stations for detecting divers
• "Storm" - a two-way satellite communication complex
• "Aurora" - space communication equipment for providing telephone communication with the MCC and astronauts in orbit
• "Zefir-T" - a complex for working with antennas and objects
• "Zefir-A" - a complex of measurements and calculations, the main advantage is the information processing algorithms used
• "Dyatel" - a photo registration station that works like a normal human eye - has no analogues in the world
• "Marten" - direction finder-radiometer of the last chance to collect information about a controlled object
• "Medblok" - a complex consisting of an operating room, an X-ray room, a dental room, a treatment room and 2 cabins for astronauts
• "Passat" - air conditioning system (26 units)
• The ship is equipped with refrigeration and desalination plants (five desalination plants with a total capacity of 70 tons/day)

The ship has a staffing structure that corresponds to the ship charter of the Russian Navy, but, in addition to conventional combat units and services, it has a unit under the designation "Measuring Complex".

Structural measuring complex "Marshal Krylov" is divided into three divisions that are engaged in measurements: the division of trajectory measurements (speed and coordinates of the target in a certain coordinate system), telemetry (transmission of data on the state of the object during the flight over a radio channel: temperature, vibration, etc.) and computer technology (division processes the received data).

Story

KIK "Marshal Krylov" named after the twice Hero Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov. By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of July 22, 1982, a corps was laid at the Leningrad Admiralty Association. Launched on July 24, 1987. The "godmother" of the ship was the granddaughter of Nikolai Krylov - Marina Krylova, who broke the traditional bottle of champagne on the stem during the solemn ceremony of launching the ship into the water. Since then, the cork from the bottle has been kept in the Marshal Krylov KIK museum as an amulet protecting the ship from harm. Completion and fine-tuning continued afloat for two years. On July 9, 1989, his crew arrived on the ship under the command of the ship's commander, Captain 2nd Rank Yuri Mikhailovich Pirnyak, and the head of the measuring complex, Captain 3rd Rank Anatoly Grigoryevich Poberezhny. KIK "Marshal Krylov" entered service on December 30, 1989. On February 23, 1990, the Naval flag of the USSR was raised.

When switching to Pacific Fleet the ship went through the Suez Canal, and not along the Northern Sea Route, like other ships during a similar transition.

July 9, 1990 at 20:20 local time KIK "Marshal Krylov" arrived at the permanent base city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-50, and anchored in the Krasheninnikov Bay.

In 1992 KIK "Marshal Krylov" played a pivotal role in the historic Europe-America 500 mission. In the Seattle area, during a storm of magnitude 7, the Resurs-500 space capsule was safely located, lifted aboard and transported to Seattle, where it has since been stored in the Aviation Museum.

In 1998, the crew of the measuring complex, intelligence, chemical command, helicopter complex and ship control remained in the military. There are about 130 people in total. The rest are contract servicemen and civil servants.

In 2004" KIK "Marshal Krylov" was engaged in monitoring the parameters of warheads during the launch of the Topol ICBM to the maximum range.

On April 24, 2010, a solemn event was held on board the cruiser "Aurora" in honor of the 20th anniversary of KIK "Marshal Krylov". The event was attended by veterans, ship builders and members of the first crews of the expedition. On behalf of the Union of Veterans, the medal "20 Years of the KIK "Marshal Krylov" was awarded to the chief builder of two ships of the 1914 project, Valentin Anatolyevich Talanov, the deputy chief designer of the Baltsudoproekt, Ryazantsev, Yuri Ivanovich, and Shardin, Vadim Evgenievich.

In 2011, the ship monitored the arrival of warheads at a given point of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile. A test launch was made from the nuclear submarine "Yuri Dolgoruky", carried out at the maximum flight range along the aiming point in the Pacific Ocean.

At the end of 2012 KIK "Marshal Krylov" completed a scheduled dock repair in Vladivostok and went to sea to perform tasks for its intended purpose. November 1, 2012 KIK "Marshal Krylov" returned to the point of permanent deployment after completing the tasks for its intended purpose. In two weeks, about two thousand miles were covered in the Pacific Ocean, during the voyage the ship recorded telemetric information of launches of ballistic and cruise missiles by nuclear submarines of the Pacific Fleet and the performance of live firing by a strike group of small missile ships of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia.

In 2013 the crew KIK "Marshal Krylov" in his native base in Kamchatka, he received participants in the campaign of Remembrance dedicated to the Victory Day, the 282nd anniversary of the formation of the Pacific Fleet and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Gennady Ivanovich Nevelsky. The commander of the ship, captain 1st rank of the reserve, Igor Shalyna, introduced the delegation to the unique vessel, spoke about the next passage to St. Petersburg, where a major overhaul of the space complex is planned. Veterans participating in the March of Remembrance handed over a gift from the Vladivostok Maritime Assembly, of which the ship has been a collective member for many years. 270th anniversary book Russian fleet will take its rightful place along with other exhibits. Meeting participants of the trip with the crew of the ship "Marshal Krylov", as always, took place in the ship's museum, which became the keeper of the history of the "star expedition".

Repair and modernization

October 8, 2014 KIK "Marshal Krylov" left Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for Vladivostok for deep modernization. The ship arrived at Dalzavod on October 17. The proposed repair with modernization will allow the ship to extend not only its service life, but also to use it even more intensively in order to ensure the country's military and space activities. Also, the modernization of the ship's systems will allow the use KIK "Marshal Krylov" in the interests of the spaceport "