Gus-class LCAC

Class overview




Builders	Primorsky Shipyard Almaz, More, Zelenodolsk
Operators	Soviet Navy
Succeeded by	Tsaplya class Lebed class
Built	1969–1974
In commission	1969–1990s
Completed	32
Scrapped	32


General characteristics
Type	Landing Craft Air Cushion
Displacement	27 long tons (27 t)
Length	21.4 m (70 ft 3 in)
Beam	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	3 × TVD 10 2350 hp (2 of which TVD-10M) 780 hp (582 kW) gas turbines (1 lift, 2 propulsion) 2 × three-bladed variable-pitch propellers
Speed	60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph)
Range	230 nmi (430 km; 260 mi) at 43 kn (80 km/h; 49 mph) 185 nmi (343 km; 213 mi) at 50 kn (93 km/h; 58 mph)
Troops	25 assault troops with equipment
Complement	6
Armament	None

The Gus-class LCAC code Project 1205 Skat was a medium-sized assault hovercraft operated by the Soviet Navy from 1969 until the early 1990s.

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Sharpe, Richard (RN) Jane's Fighting Ships 1990-91 ISBN 0-7106-0904-3
(in English) All Gus class LCAC - Complete Ship List

v t e Soviet and Russian ship classes after 1945
Aircraft carriers	Moskva Project 1160^{P X} OREL^{P X} Kiev Kuznetsov Ulyanovsk^X Project 23000^P Project LMA^P
Battlecruisers	Stalingrad^X Kirov
Cruisers	Sverdlov Kynda Kresta I Kresta II Kara Slava Project 22350MK^P Project 21956MK^P Project 23560 Skval^P
Destroyers	Skory Neustrashimy Kotlin Kildin Kanin Kashin Sovremenny Udaloy Project 22350M Project 21956^P
Frigates	Kola Riga Petya Mirka Koni Burevestnik Gepard Neustrashimy Novik^{P X} Admiral Grigorovich Admiral Gorshkov
Corvettes	Poti Pauk Parchim Nanuchka Tarantul Bora Grisha Babochka Mukha Buyan Buyan-M Steregushchiy Gremyashchiy Karakurt Derzky
P / M / T boats	Kronshtadt P 6 P 4 Komar Osa Shershen Stenka Turya Shmel Zhuk Bogomol Matka Muravey^BG Sarancha Svetlyak^BG Rubin^BG Project 22160 Project 23550 Raptor Okean^BG Vosh^BG Grachonok Pr 12260 Yastreb Mirage Pr 12150 Mangust Pr 02800 DShL
Minesweepers	T43 T58 Yurka Natya Gorya Sasha Vanya Zhenya Sonya Yevgenya Alexandrit Lida
Amphibious ships	Nosorog Tapir Ropucha Polnocny Dyugon Ondatra Serna Project 10200 Khalzan^{P X} Project 11780 Kherson^{P X} Ivan Gren ° Andreev ° Kajman Project 23900
Spy ships	Moma Marshal Krylov Primor'ye Balzam Vishnya Yury Ivanov
Air-cushioned landing craft	Gus Lebed Tsaplya Aist Zubr Czilim^BG
Icebreaking patrol vessels	Ivan Susanin^BG Purga^BG Project 23550
Other vessels	SSV-33 Don Ugra Smolnyy Dunay Lun
X Cancelled BG Border Guard service P Project P X Project, Cancelled

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