Russian Destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov
''Marshal Shaposhnikov'' (russian: Маршал Ша́пошников, italic=yes) is a modernized (Reclassified as Frigate) of the Russian Navy commissioned in 1985. The vessel serves in the Russian Pacific Fleet. Her namesake is Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov. Operational history On 6 April 2003, ''Marshal Shaposhnikov'' left port, along with '' Admiral Panteleyev'' and the navy tanker '' Vladimir Kolechitskiy'', to start a deployment to the Indian Ocean, where exercises with the Indian Navy were planned for May 2003. A number of Black Sea Fleet ships, plus, possibly, cruise missile submarines, joined the deployment. On 6 May 2010, Russian Naval Infantry deployed from ''Marshal Shaposhnikov'' rescued the hijacked tanker . The entire crew escaped unharmed. ''Moscow University'' had been hijacked by Somali pirates on 5 May 2010 off Socotra Island. The commandos from ''Marshal Shaposhnikov'' detained 10 pirates and killed one during the release of the tanker. In November 20 ...
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