Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)

Sposobny underway in the Sea of Japan, early 1982
History
→ Soviet Union → Russia
Name	Sposobny
Builder	61 Communards Shipyard
Laid down	10 March 1969
Launched	11 April 1970
Commissioned	25 September 1971
Decommissioned	6 January 1993
Fate	Scrapped in 1995
General characteristics
Class and type	Kashin-class destroyer
Displacement	3,440 t (3,386 long tons) (standard) 4,290 t (4,222 long tons) (full load)
Length	144 m (472 ft) (o/a)
Beam	15.8 m (52 ft)
Draught	4.46 m (14.6 ft)
Installed power	4 × M8E gas turbines M3 unit aggregate; 72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 x shaft CODAG
Speed	34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	266
Sensors and processing systems	Radar Volga MR-600 Voskhod MR-310 Angara MR-500U Kliver 2 x Yatagan 2 x MR-105 Turel Groza Sonar MG-312 Titan MG-311 Vychegda
Armament	2 × twin 76 mm (3 in) AK-726 guns 2 × twin launchers for SA-N-1 'Goa' SAM (32 missiles) 1 × 5 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 2 × twelve barrel RBU-6000 ASW rocket launchers 2 × six barrel RBU-1000 ASW rocket launchers

Sposobny (Russian: Способный, "Capable") was a Project 61 (NATO reporting name Kashin-class) destroyer of the Soviet Navy, which briefly became part of the Russian Navy. The ship served during the Cold War from 1971 to 1989.

She served with the Pacific Fleet for the duration of her career, often operating in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific in order to show the flag. Sposobny cruised in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans during 1973–1974, 1983, and 1985, punctuated by a 1976 goodwill visit to Vancouver, Canada, and active support to Vietnam during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War. A planned modernization in 1987 at the Sevastopol Marine Plant in Ukraine was never completed due to the fall of the Soviet Union and she was transferred to the Russian Navy despite a failed Ukrainian attempt to take control. Sold to the shipyard to pay off debts, the destroyer was decommissioned in 1993 before being sold for scrap two years later.