Project 11711 Ivan Gren - Program
In 1998, the Nevsky Design Bureau in St. Petersburg began to develop a medium-sized landing ship of Project 11711. The fleet was ready to order a series of six units. The design of the future BDK project 11711 began on the terms of reference of the Russian Navy. Since finance at that time frankly sang romances, at first it was all about building something very small, like a new medium-sized landing ship. But fairly quickly common sense won, and the means, apparently, were found, so the design of the new landing ship was reformulated precisely in the design of the BDK.
After some thought, the logical command of the Russian Navy decided to abandon the logical idea of building an improved version of the BDK project 1174: it was extremely expensive and difficult (recall, the 1990s were in the yard). An alternative and relatively cheap option for building military transport in the interests of the Navy in the corps of some roller carrier also did not arouse interest in the Fleet command. In general, the old "assault troopers" wanted to replace the new "assault roopers", but for what specific tasks - this, apparently, nobody really imagined. Therefore, the terms of reference for the new ship turned out to be quite vague. From the series “Go I don’t know where, and build I don’t know what.”
The lead ship of a new class of amphibious landing vessel for the Russian Federation Navy was laid down at the Yantar ["Amber"] shipyard in Kaliningrad in December 2004. Designed by the Nevskoye Planning and Design Bureau, the Project 11711 design is expected to displace around 6,000 tons. The lead ship is the first of a planned class of five vessels to be built at a total cost of Rb5 billion ($1.8 billion).
Construction of the first-of-class, formally laid down on 23 December 2004, was expected to be completed by the end of 2008. The Project 11711 program marked the resumption of amphibious ship construction for the Russian Federation Navy after a 15-year hiatus. But by late 2009 the one unfinished Project 11711 Landing Ship "Ivan Gren" for the Russian Navy had received little funding.
New series BDK was to consist of 5 ships, two of them, total cost 5 billion roubles, were to be constructed at the Kaliningrad factory "Amber". Construction of the head ship would require 3.5 - 4 years, and the subsequent, in view of lessons learned in practice, - 1.5-2 years.
Yantar used to be among the leaders in the military shipbuilding. However, the situation with the orders for the Russian Navy is unacceptable. For nearly twenty (!) years the shipyard was building project 11540 patrol ship Yaroslav Mudry. Ten years ago a "super modern" Novik was laid down, but gradually it was converted into a training ship. By 2007 the only more or less promising project was the series with the head landing ship 11711 Ivan Gren.
At the same time in 2008 there was a little progress of the shipyard Yantar in the construction of the huge assault landing ships Ivan Gren of type 11711 and the training ship Borodino (the former Novik) of type 12441U, and small gunnery ships the Makhachkala and the Volgodonsk of type 21630 designed at the Shipbuilding Company Almaz. As of 2008 the Ivan Gren was expected to sail by 2010. In September 2008 The Russian Defence Ministry stepped up the funding to build the large landing ship [Russian BDK] Ivan Gren at the Yantar Works of the Baltic Shipyard open joint-stock company.
By 2009 Yantar Baltic Shipyard planned to deliver the Ivan Gren amphibious ship being constructed under order of Russian Defense Ministry by 2012, said Sergei Mikhailov, the head of shipyard's press service to RIA Novosti. Deadlines for this ship, started in 2004, had been postponed several times due to changes in the draft and unstable funding. By the end of 2014 BDK "Ivan Gren" was scheduled to be transferred to the customer in 2015.
It appeared that the military was unhappy with the project (this is indirectly confirmed by the constant revisions introduced by the project naval after the start of construction) and were ready to give up on the series, having completed the lead ship as a transport.
The Baltic shipyard Yantar in Kaliningrad started to build large landing ship "Pyotr Morgunov"for the RUSSIAN NAVY in December 2014. It will be the second project 11711 ship. It was anticipated that the formal ceremony of laying the BDK Peter Morgunov would be held in the first quarter of the year 2015. Under the program the second project 11711 was to be transferred to the Navy in the year 2018. The large landing ship (BDK) Project 11711 "Peter Morgunov" was laid down in the Baltic Shipyard (Shipyard) "Yantar" in Kaliningrad on 11 June 2015.
In 2015, the Navy command announced a decision to reduce the series from six to two units. The program shutdown may be due to the non-compliance of this project with the requirements. It is possible that the fleet gives priority to the creation of universal landing ships.
On June 21, 2016, Ivan Gren was finally able to go to the factory, and after them to the state tests. They were, to put it mildly, difficult. This is evident even from the fact that the acceptance certificate on the completion of state tests of "Ivan Gren" was signed only on June 2, 2018. . As expected, mooring and factory sea trials were carried out, equipment was set up. Putting a combat unit into operation was not easy. The Nevsky Design Bureau, which designed this ship, as well as the Yantar shipyard, which built it, gradually resolved all the issues. Multiple sea inspections in the Baltic Sea made it possible to debug the operation of all systems and mechanisms, to achieve compliance with the parameters declared by the designers.
According to unconfirmed information, the Gren experienced problems with stability, insufficient firing sector for gun mounts, demagnetization, controllability when reversing. The ship returned to the factory, treated its "childhood illnesses", went back to tests, discovered new "jambs" , again headed for the factory. Then the customer finally accepted the ship.
The transfer of the large landing ship (BDK) "Ivan Gren" to the fleet should take place by the end of spring, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told journalists on 09 February 2018. "We are waiting, as they say, from the minute to the minute, the task is to finish all the activities, I do not have specific terms, but I think we should finish it by the end of spring," he said. Earlier, the spokesman of the building ship of the Baltic shipyard Yantar Sergei Mikhailov told TASS that his state tests are scheduled to be completed at the end of February 2018.
On 03 May 2018, the marine part of the state tests of the Ivan Gren large landing ship was completed. During sea trials, the operation of ship systems and systems was presented to the State Acceptance Commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The tests took place in the Baltic Sea with the participation of the commissioning team of the plant and the crew of the ship. State tests of the Ivan Gren BDK began in November 2017, but were stopped by the customer at the end of December to solve the identified technical problems. In March, based on the conclusion of a specially created expert commission of the Navy on all problematic issues, customer decisions were drawn up, which enabled the resumption of state tests of the ship on April 3.
At the end of February 2018, information appeared that the right and left diesel engines of the Morgunov BDK would be rearranged on the left and right side, respectively. Theoretically, this will change the nature of the rotation of the screws and eliminate the problem with the controllability of the BDK project 11711 when reversing. In the case of successful tests at the Morgunov, the relevant state commission will decide on similar changes on the lead ship of the series - Ivan Gren. Morgunov was launched on May 25, 2018 with the prospect of commissioning in 2019. Thus, no one has tested the rearranged diesels at the Morgunov, which means that the Gren, which has already entered service, had problems with handling when reversing.
The large landing ship (BDK) of project 11711 "Peter Morgunov" will go to sea for testing in the first half of 2019 and will be handed over to the fleet after their completion, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reporte on 08 October 2018. Earlier it was reported that "Peter Morgunov" was planned to transfer to the Russian Navy at the end of 2018. "Particular attention (when preparing the crew) was addressed to the reception of the ship from industry and readiness to participate in the tests, which will begin in the first half of 2019. <...> It is planned to accept the Navy after completing all the test phases," article edition. According to the newspaper, the settlement of the crew on the ship is planned in December of this year. The crew of the BDK "Peter Morgunov" completed a full cycle of training at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg.
The large landing ship "Peter Morgunov" was laid in Kaliningrad on June 11, 2015, launched in 2018. By the decision of the fleet, a series of large landing ships of 11,711 will consist of only two units - the lead ship Ivan Gren, which was built over 20 years due to numerous rework of the project, and the first serial (second in series) BDK Peter Morgunov.
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will build for the Navy another two or three large amphibious assault ships of the class "Ivan Gren" according to a modified project. This was announced 03 December 2018 to journalists by USC President Alexei Rakhmanov. "It was decided to finalize the project of Ivan Gren, in particular, there will be changes in the hull. At least, it is planned to build two or three ships on the revised project," Rakhmanov said. “There is no contract yet,” he added. Rakhmanov said that the second ship of the first series - “Peter Morgunov” - will be completed almost the same as the lead ship “Ivan Gren”.
The lead ship of the project 11711 "Ivan Gren" was launched in Kaliningrad in May 2012. He was accepted into the military of the Navy of Russia on June 20, 2018. The second ship of this project - "Peter Morgunov", being built at the Baltic shipbuilding plant "Yantar", should begin testing no later than March 2019; in June, the ship is scheduled to enter factory trials.
The crew of the second large landing ship of the project 11711 Pyotr Morgunov, which is under construction, completed the full training cycle at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg. Training for special programs lasted from August to October. Naval combat crews, as well as personnel in their military specialties, were trained. Particular attention was paid to preparing for participation in the tests of the BDK, which are scheduled for the first half of 2019. Crew check-in was planned for December, but then moved to early 2019. The CEO of the Yantar Shipyard (where the ships of this class are under construction), Eduard Yefimov, told TASS that the Ivan Gren series won’t be continued and there are plans to develop a new project of a large displacement ship. Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will improve Ivan Gren-class amphibious assault ships, taking into account the Navy’s remarks, USC Head Alexei Rakhmanov said on Tuesday 19 March 2019. "As we make arrangements for the production of the next two amphibious assault ships, we will take into account all the drawbacks expressed by the fleet," the corporation chief said. The project of amphibious assault ships will be improved from the viewpoint of their maneuverability, their readiness for sea transits, the crew habitability and the ergonomics of building the ship, he added.
Meanwhile, the management of the Yantar plant was considering the export prospects of the project 11711 landing craft. But the foreign market puts forward increased requirements for the BDK: total displacement - not less than 6000 tons; landing capacity - up to 500 marines; ship equipment with a docking camera for an air cushion landing boat.
On 23 December 2020 JSC "Baltic Shipyard Yantar" (PSZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), officially handed over the large landing ship of project 11711 "Pyotr Morgunov" to the Russian Navy. The ceremonial formation of the crew took place on the upper deck of the ship, where the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy on the admission of the BDK to the fleet was read out. Then the St. Andrew's flag was raised on the ship to the anthem of Russia. From that moment on, "Petr Morgunov" became a combat unit of the country's military fleet - enlisted in the 121st brigade of the Northern Fleet. In the near future, the ship will make the transition to the place of duty.
The "Petr Morgunov", the construction of which began in February 2016, was planned to be transferred to the fleet in 2018. But only in May 2018, the BDK was launched. Factory sea trials began at the end of 2019. During this time, the ship repeatedly returned to the plant to eliminate the identified comments. The construction was carried out in a tense atmosphere, as it proceeded taking into account the mistakes made first in the design of the lead ship of Project 11711 "Ivan Gren", and then the work to eliminate them "from the wheels."
BDK project 11711 is the development of large landing ships of project 1171, which for decades were in service in the Soviet, and later in the Russian fleet. Much of the new ship's design has undergone significant changes.
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