Armored boats "Akkerman" and "Berdyansk" transferred to the Ukrainian Navy
On Tuesday, in Odessa, a ceremony was held to raise the flags of the Ukrainian MFA at the state-tested U 174 Akkerman and U 175 Berdyansk 58155 armored vehicles built at the Leninskaya Kuznitsa factory, reports bmpd with reference to Dumskaya.net.
“At the moment, the boats have passed the full cycle of state tests and confirmed all the declared characteristics. All constructive changes and improvements will be taken into account when building the following boats of this series, ”said commander Igor Voronchenko at the ceremony.
The boats were launched on November 2015.
Bmpd comment: “Both armored boats were supposed to be handed over to the Ukrainian Navy by the end of 2013 g, but due to insufficient funding and poor quality of the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant, their construction was significantly delayed, and in December 2013 of the year MOU terminated the contract with the plant, planning to transfer construction of boats to another company.
The construction was resumed in the autumn of 2014 r as an “emergency military order”, an additional factor in favor of their completion was the ownership of the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant to commercial entities controlled by the current president, Petro Poroshenko.
The armament of the boat is made up of 2 remotely controlled naval combat module BM-5.01 "Katran-M" manufactured by the state enterprise "Nikolaev Repair and Mechanical Plant". Each module has an 30-mm automatic gun ZTM-1, 30-mm automatic grenade launcher and 7,62-mm machine gun KT, as well as two anti-personnel systems "Barrier" with a laser guidance system. The boat is equipped with an optical-electronic fire control and surveillance system "Owl".
“At the moment, the boats have passed the full cycle of state tests and confirmed all the declared characteristics. All constructive changes and improvements will be taken into account when building the following boats of this series, ”said commander Igor Voronchenko at the ceremony.
The boats were launched on November 2015.
Bmpd comment: “Both armored boats were supposed to be handed over to the Ukrainian Navy by the end of 2013 g, but due to insufficient funding and poor quality of the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant, their construction was significantly delayed, and in December 2013 of the year MOU terminated the contract with the plant, planning to transfer construction of boats to another company.
The construction was resumed in the autumn of 2014 r as an “emergency military order”, an additional factor in favor of their completion was the ownership of the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant to commercial entities controlled by the current president, Petro Poroshenko.
The armament of the boat is made up of 2 remotely controlled naval combat module BM-5.01 "Katran-M" manufactured by the state enterprise "Nikolaev Repair and Mechanical Plant". Each module has an 30-mm automatic gun ZTM-1, 30-mm automatic grenade launcher and 7,62-mm machine gun KT, as well as two anti-personnel systems "Barrier" with a laser guidance system. The boat is equipped with an optical-electronic fire control and surveillance system "Owl".
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