Following Udaloy's commissioning, designers began developing an upgrade package in 1982 to provide more balanced capabilities. The Project 1155.1 Fregat II Class Large ASW Ships (NATO Codename Udaloy II), Russia's only multipurpose destroyer, is intended to be the Russian counterpart to the American Arleigh Burke class ships.
The Udaloy-II is modified by the replacement of the SS-N-14 by the SS-N-22, reflecting a change in emphasis from ASW to anti-shipping, however, her standoff ASW capability is retained by firing SS-N-15 missiles from the torpedo tubes. Other changes include an improved self defense capability with the addition of the gun/SAM CIWS systems. Similar to Udaloy externally, it was a new configuration with the Moskit antiship missiles, a twin 130 mm gun, the Udav antitorpedo system and several anti-aircraft systems.
Powered by a modern gas turbine engine, it was equipped with more capable sonars, an integrated air defense fire control system, and a number of digital electronic systems based on state-of-the-art circuitry. The original MGK-355 Polinom integrated sonar system (with NATO reporting names Horse Jaw and Horse Tail respectively for the hull mounted and towed portions) on Udaloy-I ships is replaced by its successor, a newly designed Zvezda M-2 sonar system that has a range in excess of 100 km in the 2nd convergence zone. The Zvezda sonar system is considered by its designers to be the equivalent of American AN/SQS-53 in terms of overall performance, but it is much bulkier and heavier than its American counterpart: the length of the hull mounted portion is near 30 meters. The torpedo approaching warning function of Polinom sonar system is retained and further improved by its successor Zvezda sonar system.
In 2006 the Northern Fleet's Project 1155 Udaloy I-class destroyer Admiral Kharlamov was reported to have been laid-up for a planned overhaul and upgrade programme. In 2008 Admiral Chabanenko became the first Russian warship to transit the Panama Canal since World War II.
In April 2010 Severnaya Verf shipyard announced that the destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, which had been undergoing an overhaul since 1990, will rejoin Russia's Northern Fleet soon.| Udaloy class destroyer | |
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| Operators: |  Soviet Navy Russian Navy |
| In commission: | 1980 |
| Planned: | 15 |
| Completed: | 13 (including 1 Udaloy II) |
| Cancelled: | 2 |
| Active: | 8 |
| Laid up: | 1 |
| Retired: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,200 tons standard, 7,900 tons full load |
| Length: | 163 m |
| Beam: | 19.3 m |
| Draught: | 6.2 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft COGAG, 4 gas turbines, 120,000 hp |
| Speed: | 35 kt |
| Range: | 10500 nm at 14 kt |
| Complement: | 300 |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Radar:MR-760MA Fregat-MA/Top Plate 3-D air search radar and MR-320M Topaz-V/Strut Pair air/surface search radar Sonar: Horse Tail LF VDS sonar and Horse Jaw bow mounted LF sonar Fire Control: 2 MR-360 Podkat/Cross Sword SA-N-9 SAM control, 2 3P37/Hot Flash SA-N-11 SAM control, Garpun-BAL SSM targeting |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | Bell Squat jammer Bell Shroud intercept Bell Crown intercept 2 x PK-2 decoy RL 10 x PK-10 decoy RL in later ships |
| Armament: | Missiles: • 8 (2 x 4) SS-N-14 Silex anti submarine missiles (2x4 SS-N-22 Sunburn ASCM in Udaloy II), • 64 (8 x 8 vertical launchers) SA-N-9 Gauntlet surface to air missiles • 2 x Kortik SAM (SA-N-11) Guns: • 2 x 1 100mm/70cal DP guns( 2 x 1 AK-130 130mm guns on Udaloy II) • 4 x 30mm AA guns (4 x6 AK-630 CIWS 30mm gattling guns in Udaloy II) Torpedoes and thers: • 2 x 4 553mm Torpedo tubes ( RPK-2 Viyuga/ SS-N-15) • 2 xRBU-6000 anti submarine rocket launchers (2 x 10 RBU-Udav ASW RL in UdaloyII) |
| Aircraft carried: | helicopter deck and hangar, 2 Ka-27 'Helix' series helicopters |
