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The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as the Komar class, its NATO reporting name, meaning "mosquito", is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another ship with anti-ship missiles in 1967.
 A Komar-class missile boat launching a Styx missile
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Komar (Project 183R) |
| Operators | |
| Succeeded by | Osa class |
| Subclasses | Project 183 (MTB) |
| Built | 1952-1960 |
| Completed | 112 missile boats |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Missile boat |
| Displacement | 61.5 tons standard, 66.5 tons full load |
| Length | 25.4 m (83 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 6.24 m (20 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in)[a] |
| Propulsion | 4 shaft M-50F diesels 4,800 hp (3,600 kW) |
| Speed | 44 knots (81 km/h; 51 mph) |
| Range | 600 nmi (1,100 km; 690 mi) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Crew | 17 (3 officers) |
| Sensors and processing systems | |
| Armament |
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Export ships
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Algerian National Navy - 6 boats 1967
People's Liberation Army Navy - 8 boats (1961) plus about 40 built under licence. The Chinese also built a steel-hulled derivative as the Type 024 class missile boat
Cuban Revolutionary Navy - 18 boats[citation needed]
Egyptian Navy - 7 boats (1962–67), retired in the early 1990s; The Egyptian Navy built 6 derivative boats equipped with western weapons and electronics in the early 1980s as the October class
Indonesian Navy - 12 boats (1961–65)
Iraqi Navy - 3 boats (1972)
Myanmar Navy - 6 boats donated between 1969 and 1974, all retired between 1998 and 2002.[citation needed]
Korean People's Navy - 10 boats[citation needed]
Syrian Navy - 9 boats[citation needed]
Vietnam People's Navy - 4 boats
Combat use
edit- 1967 October 21 - Egyptian Navy Komar-class missile boats sank Israeli destroyer Eilat in the first combat use of P-15 Termit anti-ship missiles. This was the first time a ship had sunk another ship using guided missiles.[citation needed]
- 7 October 1973 - Two Syrian Navy Komar-class missile boats along with an Osa I-class missile boat, a K-123 torpedo boat and a T43-class minesweeper fought unsuccessfully against four Israeli Navy Sa'ar 3-class missile boats and one Sa'ar 4-class missile boat in the Battle of Latakia. Other Syrian missile boats fired missiles from within the harbor that mistakenly or due to malfunction hit civilian craft in the harbour.
- 1974 January 19 - 4 People's Liberation Army Navy Komar-class joined Battle of the Paracel Islands in Vietnam War[citation needed]
See also
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editReferences
edit- ^ Couhat Jean. Combat Fleets of the world 1982/1983 Their Ships, Aircraft, and Armament Paris: Editions Maritimes et d'Outre-Mer, 1981 ISBN 0-87021-125-0 p. 2
Bibliography
edit- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130.
- Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501327. OCLC 34267261.