{"id":129688,"date":"2022-11-03T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129688"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:16:49","slug":"two-russian-warships-enter-territorial-waters-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/03\/two-russian-warships-enter-territorial-waters-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Russian warships enter territorial waters of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Naval News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>According to information published by the Russian MoD on November 3, 2022, a detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship missile cruiser Varyag has entered the TOF area of responsibility south of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship of the Nakhimov Guards missile cruiser Varyag, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs and the large sea tanker Boris Butoma have entered the responsibility zone of the TOF south of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The detachment of ships is making an inter-fleet transition from the Mediterranean Sea to the point of permanent deployment in Vladivostok after completing tasks in the far maritime zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the area of Sri Lanka Island, the Pacific Fleet took operational control of the ships&#8217; detachment on the crossing from the Black Sea Fleet, whose area of responsibility they successfully traversed. The detachment of ships is currently making the crossing across the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the destroyer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admiral Tributs is a Project 1155 Large Anti-Submarine Ship (\u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u043e\u0439 \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043b\u044c, BPK) of the Russian Navy.&nbsp;The ship was laid down on 19 April 1980 and launched on 26 March 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessel is 163 m (534.8 ft) long with a beam of 19.3 m (63.3 ft) and a draught of 7.8 m (25.6 ft). Displacement was 6,200 t (6,102 long tons) standard and 7,900 t (7,775 long tons) full load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power is provided by four 23,000 kW (31,000 hp) hp GTA M-9 propulsion complexes, each comprising a 6,300 kW (8,500 hp) M-62 and a 16,800 kW (22,500 hp) hp M-8KF powering two fixed pitch propellers. which gave a maximum speed of 29.5 knots (55 km\/h; 34 mph).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To combat submarines, Admiral Tributs mounts two quadruple launchers for eight missiles in the Metel Anti-Ship Complex along with two RBU-6000 12-barrel rocket launchers for close in defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Naval News According to information published by the Russian MoD on November 3, 2022, a detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship missile cruiser Varyag has entered the TOF area of responsibility south of Sri Lanka. A detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship of the Nakhimov Guards missile cruiser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}