Soviet destroyer Otvazhny (1964) explained

Otvazhny was a Soviet built for the Black Sea Fleet during the 1960s. She sank on 30 August 1974 after a defective anti-aircraft missile launched during Black Sea Fleet drills ignited a fire which resulted in the explosion of the ship magazines.^[1]

Bibliography

• INRO Staff. 1992. The Loss of the Project 61 Class Antisubmarine Warfare Ship Otvazhnyi. Warship International. XXIX. 3. 256–266. 0043-0374.
• Book: Pavlov . A. S. . Warships of the USSR and Russia, 1945-1995 . 1997 . Naval Institute Press . Annapolis, Maryland . 1-55750-671-X.

Notes and References

1. Book: Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich . Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв. . They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries . Russian . Veche . 2012 . 2021-11-18 . 2022-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819231457/http://www.maxima-library.org/mob/b/389880?format=read . dead .