All you old Cold Warriors ... remember those innocent "tattletales" that always seemed to want to collect "Electronic Intelligence" on our HVU?

What's a few torpedo tubes between friends? This was in dry dock in St. Petersburg in the middle of last decade. I am pretty sure this was just a test and development ship - at least that is what a quickie search about the hull number says.

I tend to believe that - because I really don't see how you could hide that for long. Remember what part of the world they were found in more than not? You see the underside of every hull eventually.

 

Still though .... Innocent? Sure they were!

 

 

Hat tip RS and other dudes in email.

 

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That's pretty smart thinking, nicely done!

Apparently there was a group of 'trawlers' (Project 1872?) that were tasked with sonar and torpedo trials, though information seems hard to find.

 

So, unless there is a pic out there of OS-57 actually trailing a carrier group, or other info, I'm a bit skeptical that they were actually tasked with potential 'surprise attack' duties during the Cold War.

Here is OS-57 ("OC"-57 in cyrilic), apparently project 1824:

http://www.russian-ships.info/vspomog/1823.htm

 

I'm busy now, not time for analysis or translation

Project 1824, that's it, where OS or 'Opitnoye Sudno' means "experimental ship".