T-43 design

 0 FLEET MINESWEEPERS (T-43 design)

 Completed               1949-1957

The T-43 class was the Soviet Navy's first postwar minesweeper design. After serving as minesweepers, many units were later modified for auxiliary roles as well as radar picket ships. Several T-43s have gone to other navies and several were operated by the Border Troops as patrol ships.

These were steel-hulled ships. The early ships had a shorter hull and a "flat face" bridge structure; later units were...