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Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The all-gun Riga class frigate formed the initial backbone of the Soviet frigate fleet during the early part of the Cold War. They were produced at the insistence of Soviet premier Josef Stalin himselt, who wanted a cost-effective, mass-production type small warship suitable for patrol and escort duties, on which he felt larger and more expensive warships would be wasted. They were at their most basic a small-scaled, destroyer escort sized version of the contemporary Kola class frigate, which was itself the size of a World War II era second-class destroyer or German torpedo boat (flottentorpedobooten), and Kola production was subsequently terminated at only eight (8) units in favor of Riga. Riga's relative simplicity and ease of operation also made it perfect as a export warship type for other Warsaw Pact and friendly nations, with five other nations eventually getting a total of 18 Rigas for their own use (Finland, East Germany, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and Communist China). A total of 68 were built from 1952 to 1956, when new Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered additional construction terminated due to the design having become obsolete. It should be noted that the Chinese promptly reverse-engineered their four (4) Rigas as soon as they were delivered and eventually began producing their own home-built variant, the Chengdu class frigate, during the mid-1960s. At the same time most of the original Rigas were refitted throughout the 1960s to keep their technology as current as possible. The Soviet Navy began phasing its own Rigas out of service during the 1980s as more modern frigate types became available in quantity to replace them. A handful still remained in Russian Federation service after the fall of the Soviet Union; however, all of these appear to have been decommissioned and scrapped by the end of the 1990s. All of the Rigas and Riga variants in foreign service were decommissioned at various times, with the East German Rigas going first from 1968-1977, followed by the two Finnish Rigas in the late 1970s, followed by the Indonesian and Bulgarian Rigas respectively around the same time as the Russian ones. The Chinese PLAN Chengdus lasted the longest and are more properly covered in their own entry; suffice it to say that a small handful of the older Jiangnans and at least one Jiangdong type Chengdu variants still survive as of this date (fall 2020) as fleet reserve units, training vessels, and museum ships.

To find out more about the Riga class frigate, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga-cla…

I only made two changes to this model. First, I retextured the deck to a darker shade of rust orange, in order to better match with my other Soviet Navy Cold War era 3D ship models. Second, I had to provide my own textures for the radars, since they were not included in Pack 3D's archive at the time I downloaded it.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only

NOTE - This model can be modified to resemble the base Chinese Chengdu variant as well as any of its later derivatives with the appropriate changes. Doing the base Chengdu variant (PLAN Type 6601) or its first derivative (PLAN Type 6601/01) will be the easiest, as all that is required are the appropriate weapons swapouts and retexturing the hull in PLAN colors. Doing the later Jiang-series variants will require more work, due to hull modifications required for replacing some of the main guns with guided missile launcher systems, other main guns with heavier-caliber models, and upperworks/mast(s) modifications/replacements.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The all-gun Riga class frigate formed the initial backbone of the Soviet frigate fleet during the early part of the Cold War. They were produced at the insistence of Soviet premier Josef Stalin himselt, who wanted a cost-effective, mass-production type small warship suitable for patrol and escort duties, on which he felt larger and more expensive warships would be wasted. They were at their most basic a small-scaled, destroyer escort sized version of the contemporary Kola class frigate, which was itself the size of a World War II era second-class destroyer or German torpedo boat (flottentorpedobooten), and Kola production was subsequently terminated at only eight (8) units in favor of Riga. Riga's relative simplicity and ease of operation also made it perfect as a export warship type for other Warsaw Pact and friendly nations, with five other nations eventually getting a total of 18 Rigas for their own use (Finland, East Germany, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and Communist China). A total of 68 were built from 1952 to 1956, when new Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered additional construction terminated due to the design having become obsolete. It should be noted that the Chinese promptly reverse-engineered their four (4) Rigas as soon as they were delivered and eventually began producing their own home-built variant, the Chengdu class frigate, during the mid-1960s. At the same time most of the original Rigas were refitted throughout the 1960s to keep their technology as current as possible. The Soviet Navy began phasing its own Rigas out of service during the 1980s as more modern frigate types became available in quantity to replace them. A handful still remained in Russian Federation service after the fall of the Soviet Union; however, all of these appear to have been decommissioned and scrapped by the end of the 1990s. All of the Rigas and Riga variants in foreign service were decommissioned at various times, with the East German Rigas going first from 1968-1977, followed by the two Finnish Rigas in the late 1970s, followed by the Indonesian and Bulgarian Rigas respectively around the same time as the Russian ones. The Chinese PLAN Chengdus lasted the longest and are more properly covered in their own entry; suffice it to say that a small handful of the older Jiangnans and at least one Jiangdong type Chengdu variants still survive as of this date (fall 2020) as fleet reserve units, training vessels, and museum ships.

To find out more about the Riga class frigate, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga-cla…

I only made two changes to this model. First, I retextured the deck to a darker shade of rust orange, in order to better match with my other Soviet Navy Cold War era 3D ship models. Second, I had to provide my own textures for the radars, since they were not included in Pack 3D's archive at the time I downloaded it.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only

NOTE - This model can be modified to resemble the base Chinese Chengdu variant as well as any of its later derivatives with the appropriate changes. Doing the base Chengdu variant (PLAN Type 6601) or its first derivative (PLAN Type 6601/01) will be the easiest, as all that is required are the appropriate weapons swapouts and retexturing the hull in PLAN colors. Doing the later Jiang-series variants will require more work, due to hull modifications required for replacing some of the main guns with guided missile launcher systems, other main guns with heavier-caliber models, and upperworks/mast(s) modifications/replacements.