Raptor patrol experienced in the Baltic
Project-03160 Raptor patrol boat has successfully passed state tests in the Baltic Sea and is preparing to join the Baltic Fleet, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense Information and Communications Department for the Navy told reporters on Monday Fleet captain of the first rank Igor Dygalo.
The boat of the 03160 project is designed to perform the delivery of military personnel at daylight and at night - no less than 20 people, carrying patrol service, intercepting and retaining small targets, search and rescue operations.
The navigation area of the boat of the 03160 project is the coastal zone of the seas, straits, estuaries in the ice-free navigation period in the daylight and at night with the distance from the basing point - 100 miles. "Raptor" is capable of speeds up to 50 nodes, its crew is 3 person, draft 0,9 meter.
It is equipped with windows with bullet-proof glass 39 mm thick, as well as weapons - a remote-controlled complex with a gyro-stabilized optical-electronic module (GOEM) of 14,5 mm caliber; has a target detection range 3000 m; sighting range of shooting - 2000 m; and two 6P41 "Pecheneg" machine guns of 7,62 mm caliber on swiveling installations. Boats of this project are the fastest in the Russian Navy.
State tests of the Raptor serial patrol boat have been completed in the marine polygons in the Baltic Sea. After the acceptance committee has signed the acceptance certificate, the boat will be handed over to the Navy and will become part of the Baltic Fleet of Russia. Construction of the patrol boat project 03160 "Raptor" carried out ahead of schedule
- said Dygalo.The boat of the 03160 project is designed to perform the delivery of military personnel at daylight and at night - no less than 20 people, carrying patrol service, intercepting and retaining small targets, search and rescue operations.
The navigation area of the boat of the 03160 project is the coastal zone of the seas, straits, estuaries in the ice-free navigation period in the daylight and at night with the distance from the basing point - 100 miles. "Raptor" is capable of speeds up to 50 nodes, its crew is 3 person, draft 0,9 meter.
It is equipped with windows with bullet-proof glass 39 mm thick, as well as weapons - a remote-controlled complex with a gyro-stabilized optical-electronic module (GOEM) of 14,5 mm caliber; has a target detection range 3000 m; sighting range of shooting - 2000 m; and two 6P41 "Pecheneg" machine guns of 7,62 mm caliber on swiveling installations. Boats of this project are the fastest in the Russian Navy.
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