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Despite continuing financial difficulties, the Argentine Navy has performed distinguished service in support of U.N.-sponsored maritime blockades in the 1990s. During 1993 and into 1994, the French- built corvette Granville (seen here olT Haiti in November 1993) joined in Operation Support Democracy, to prevent the flow of prohibited materials to Haiti. The 1,250-ton Granville, completed in 1981, followed two sisters begun for the South African Navy and purchased by Argentina in 1978 and was damaged by British landing forces in 1982.
Pictured is Russia’s rusting first “aircraft carrier,” the Kiev, moored at Rosta Shipyard, Murmansk, in August 1992. The 43,000-ton ship was stricken in February 1994, having been retained as a source of spares should funds become available to refit and reactivate the Admiral Flola Sovetskogo Soyuza Gorshkov—a not very likely occurrence, given that the Yak-38 VTOU fighters for the ship have been retired, the follow-on Yak-41 has been abandoned, and the ship would require a crew in excess of 1,500. The Gorshkov herself suffered a fire in February. Pacific Fleet sisters Minsk and Novorossiysk were relegated to “Second Class Reserve” in August 1992 and are available for scrapping. Russia’s other carrier, the 67,500-ton Admiral Flola Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, has operated only briefly since delivery to the Northern Fleet late in 1991.
HMAS Newcastle, the last of six U.S.
Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7)-class guided missile frigates to join the Royal Australian Navy, was commissioned 11 December 1993 at Sydney. The Newcastle and sister Melbourne were built by AMP-CON at Melbourne, while the four earlier units were completed during 1980- 1984 by Todd Shipyard, Seattle. In addition to the 51 Oliver Hazard Perrys commissioned from 1977 to 1989 for the U.S. Navy, the class also has been built in Spain (six units, completing from 1986 to 1994) and Taiwan (at least eight, commissioning from 1993 to 1999 and possibly beyond). A number of Third World navies have expressed interest in acquiring ex- U.S. Navy units of the class, should further fleet reductions make them available later in this decade. Originally conceived in the early 1970s as utility escorts, the Oliver Hazard Perrys now are the world's most numerous frigate class, and many are likely to serve on into the third decade of the 21st century.
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