Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy
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The Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy is a former (NATO codename: Krivak I) ship built for the Soviet Navy
Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...
in the late 1970s.
Soviet service
On 12 February 1988 the ship intentionally rammed the American missile cruiser .
Ukrainian service
In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian NavyUkrainian Navy
The Ukrainian Naval Forces is the navy of Ukraine and part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was established in 1992. It consists of 5 branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Navy aviation, coast rocket-artillery and marines...
, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.
Fate
Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black SeaBlack Sea
The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...
in the spring of 2005.