Sonya-class minesweeper

The Sonya class, Soviet designation Project 1265 Yakhont, are a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy and Soviet allies between 1971 and 1991.

Russian Navy minesweeper German Ugryumov in 2015.
Class overview
Name	Sonya class (Project 1265)
Operators	Soviet Navy  Russian Navy  Ukrainian Navy  Azerbaijani Navy  Bulgarian Navy  Cuban Revolutionary Navy  Syrian Navy  Vietnam People's Navy
Preceded by	Zhenya class
Succeeded by	Alexandrit class
Built	1971–1991
In commission	1971–present
Completed	72
Retired	?
General characteristics
Type	coastal minesweeper
Displacement	400 tons standard, 450 tons full load
Length	48.8 m (160 ft)
Beam	8.8 m (29 ft)
Draught	2.1 m (6 ft 11 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft diesel engines 2,400 hp (1,800 kW)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Range	3,000 nautical miles (5,556.0 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance	10 days
Complement	43
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: Spin Trough Sonar: MG-89
Armament	1 × twin 30 mm guns 1 × twin 25 mm guns Sweeps GKT, PEMT-2, ST-2

Design

The Sonya-class ships are wooden hulled coastal minehunters, built as successors to the Vanya class with new sweeps and more effective sonar. A central safe explosion proof area is fitted and all key systems can be remote controlled from there.

Operators

HQ-862, a Sonya-class minesweeper of Vietnam People's Navy

A total of 72 ships were built by Uliis yard in the Vladivostok and Avangard yards in Petrozavodsk between 1971 and 1991. One ship, BT-730, was lost in an accident in 1985. Another unit collided with a Swedish surveillance ship HSwMS Orion east of Gotland in the Baltic Sea in November 1985.^[1]

 Russian Navy

• 19 ships (2023).^[2][3]
  • Baltic Fleet – 4 ships
  • Northern Fleet – 5 ships^[3]
  • Pacific Fleet – 7 ships
  • Caspian Flotilla – 3 ships

 Ukrainian Navy

• 2 ships in former service.
  • U330 Melitopol (Decommissioned 2012)
  • U331 Mariupol (Decommissioned 2013)

 Azerbaijani Navy

• 2 ships in service.

 Bulgarian Navy

• 4 ships transferred.

 Cuban Revolutionary Navy

• 4 ships transferred.

 Syrian Navy

• 1 ship transferred.

 Vietnam People's Navy

• 4 ships transferred.

See also

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number