Komar-class missile boat

A Komar-class missile boat launching a Styx missile
Class overview
NameKomar (Project 183R)
Operators
Succeeded byOsa class
SubclassesProject 183 (MTB)
Built1952-1960
In commission1952-2002
Completed112 missile boats
General characteristics
TypeMissile boat
Displacement61.5 tons standard, 66.5 tons full load
Length25.4 m (83 ft 4 in)
Beam6.24 m (20 ft 6 in)
Draught1.24 m (4 ft 1 in)[a]
Propulsion4 shaft M-50F diesels 4,800 hp (3,600 kW)
Speed44 knots (81 km/h; 51 mph)
Range600 nmi (1,100 km; 690 mi) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Crew17 (3 officers)
Sensors &
processing systems
Armament
  • 2 × 25 mm 2M-3M guns in a twin gun mount (1,000 rounds)
  • 2 × KT-67 missile launchers containing 1 P-15 Termit (SS-N-2 "Styx") anti-ship missile each

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.

Export ships

Combat use

  • 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.[2]
  • 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

See also

  • List of ships of the Soviet Navy
  • List of ships of Russia by project number

Notes

  1. ^ Other sources have the draught being 2 m (6 ft 7 in)[1]

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Rabinovich, Abraham; Ward, Jeffrey L. (1988). The boats of Cherbourg. Herman Wouk Collection (Library of Congress) (First ed.). New York: Seaver Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-0680-3.

Bibliography

  • Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130.
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