The Baltic Fleet will be replenished with another Raptor patrol boat
In St. Petersburg, the signing ceremony of the acceptance certificate for the transfer of the newest patrol boat of the 03160 project ("Raptor") to the Navy took place. This is the 12-th boat of the series, built on the St. Petersburg-based enterprise Pella, commissioned by the Russian Navy. The boat will be part of the Baltic Fleet, the release says.
It is reported that "state tests of the next serial patrol boat Raptor have been successfully passed in the marine polygons in the Baltic Sea." The boat is the fastest in the composition of the surface forces of the Russian Navy.
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. The boat is capable of speeding up to 50 nodes, its crew is 3 man, the 0,9 meter draft, the press service added.
According to the ministry, the boat “is equipped with 39 mm thick bullet-resistant glass windows, as well as weapons - a remote-controlled complex with a gyro-stabilized optical-electronic module (GOEM) of 14,5 mm caliber (target range 3000 m; sighting range - 2000 m) and two 6P41 "Pecheneg" machine guns of 7,62 mm caliber on swiveling installations ".
- shipyard "Pella"
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