Admiral Chabanenko is an Udaloy II-classanti-submarine destroyer of the Russian Navy. The destroyer was laid down in 1989, during the Soviet period, and was finished by Russia 10 years later, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1999 she deployed with the Northern Fleet. The Admiral Chabanenko is the sole vessel of the Project 1155.1 design, a modified version of the Project 1155 design, also called Udaloy class. The design is also known as the Udaloy II class. The ship includes updated weapon systems like the SS-N-22 anti-ship missile and the "Zvezda" M-2 series sonar system. She is named after Admiral Andrei Chabanenko, commander of the Northern Fleet between 1952 and 1962.[1]
In December 2013 Admiral Chabanenko docked at the 35th ship repair plant in Murmansk to undergo the overhaul of her engines. The repairs were expanded in August 2017 into a more thorough overhaul and refit of the ship, expected to be completed in December 2019.[5] However, it was later confirmed that the ship still remained in refit as of 2020.[6] In September 2023, it was reported that Admiral Chabanenko would return to service in 2025 at the earliest.[7]
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^"Чабаненко Андрей Трофимович" [Chabanenko, Andrey Trofimovich]. Center for Political-Military Studies (in Russian). Retrieved 9 April 2019.