Mirage (small rocket ship)

The project of the small Mirage rocket ship was approved and launched on April 11, 1983. On August 30, 1983, the Mirage was laid on the slipway of the Leningrad Primorsky Shipyard (factory number S-77). It was launched on August 19, 1986 and was soon transferred via inland water systems from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of ​​Azov, and from there to the Black Sea for passing the acceptance tests. It entered service on December 30, 1986, and on January 9, 1987, the Soviet Navy flag was hoisted on a ship. On February 24, the Mirage was included in the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR Navy (military unit 49232).

1987-2007

As part of the tactical naval strike group "Mirage" repeatedly won prizes of the Navy Commander in Chief for missile training (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 and 2004). In 1988, the ship covered 2188 nautical miles , in 1989 - 2215 miles, in 1990 - 4800 miles, in 1991 - 3700 miles. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, performing missions on combat duty, the ship traveled more than 20,000 nautical miles for about 400 running days and conducted more than 100 missile and artillery firing, and was repeatedly recognized as the best in terms of part and navy in various types of combat training. In June 2004, a small missile ship underwent dock repair .

Naval battle on August 10, 2008

On August 10, 2008, during the armed conflict in South Ossetia , Mirage accompanied the Caesar Kunikov and Saratov BDKs together with the Suzdalets IPC in the area declared by Russia as a security zone. Five naval targets were discovered, which, without responding to warnings, quickly went closer to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet . As a result of a fleeting naval battle, one target was destroyed: the Mirage missile defense system from a distance of 35 km, on the orders of the NLMB commander, launched a successful 2-missile salvo with the P-120 complex on the first Georgian boat. The remaining continued rapprochement, hoping to have time to attack the Russian landing ships. However, the Mirage missile of the Osa-M complex significantly damaged the second attack boat, which changed course and left the battlefield. The remaining three boats also turned and stopped the attack. On August 14, President Dmitry Medvedev received the leaders of the Ministry of Defense and participants in the armed conflict in South Ossetia in the Kremlin, among whom was the commander of the Mirage ship , 3rd-rank captain Ivan Dubik.

2008-2015 years

From September 2008 to July 2009, the ship carried out combat duty tasks, including in the port of Novorossiysk as part of a group of fast response ships. According to the results of 2008, the ship was recognized as the best in the Navy in combat training. In July 2009, he took part in operational-strategic exercises under the leadership of the Navy Kavkaz-2009; from July 2009 to November 2010, scheduled routine repairs were carried out in 91 submarines of the Black Sea Fleet. In November-December 2010, he completed and completed course tasks and joined the permanent readiness forces. From December 2010 to March 2011, he performed tasks as part of a rapid reaction force grouping in Feodosia. In May 2011, he took part in international exercises jointly with the Ukrainian Navy “Fairway of the World-2011”, in joint missile shooting of the Kug 166 dnmrk for the prize of the Navy Civil Code. In June 2011, in the Black Sea, he monitored the US Monterey URO cruiser, and in October, the . In December 2011, he took part in the compulsory health insurance of the Southern Military District in the village of Novorossiysk. In 2011, the ship covered more than 4000 nautical miles, which is a record from the moment of construction. June 17, 2015 for the first time went on military service in the Mediterranean Sea .

For 2015, the small Mirage missile ship is part of the 166th Red Banner Novorossiysk Small Battalion Division of the 41st Sevastopol Order of Nakhimov 1st class rocket boat brigade , Sevastopol .

• From September 1986 to June 1995 - Captain 3 ranks Alexander G. Kovalevsky;
• From June 1995 to August 2000 - captain of the 3rd rank Alexey Ivanovich Lisenkov;
• From August 2000 to September 2001 - captain of the 3rd rank Oleg Nikolaevich Balashenko;
• From September 2001 to April 2005 - Captain 3 ranks Koval Igor Vladimirovich;
• From April 2005 to December 2005 - captain of the 3rd rank Dyskin Dmitry Borisovich;
• From December 2005 to August 2008 - captain of the 3rd rank Dubik Ivan Ivanovich;
• From August 2008 to November 2011 - Captain 3 ranks Artem Andreyevich Andreyenko;
• From November 2011 to June 2014 - Captain 3 ranks Shadrin Alexander Valerievich.
• From June 2014 to September 29, 2015 - Captain of the 3rd rank, Genne Alexander Andreevich (committed suicide on September 29, 2015 under unclear circumstances).
• From October 2016 to August 2018 - captain of the 3rd rank Alexander Vladimirovich Zhurkin.
• From August 2018 to the present - Captain-Lieutenant Kozakov Gleb Alexandrovich

• 616 (1986)
• 603 (1986)
• 613 (1988)
• 617 (1990)

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