Bookmark armored "Gyurza-M" for the Ukrainian Navy
On October 25, 2012, the first two Project 58155 (Gyurza-M) small armored artillery boats intended for the Ukrainian Navy were laid down at the Leninskaya Kuznitsa Plant in Kyiv. The boats are planned to be used to solve problems in the Danube River basin and in the coastal zone of the Black and Azov Seas. According to the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, nine Gyurza-M type boats are planned to be built for the Ukrainian Navy by 2017. However, during the laying ceremony of the first two units on October 25, First Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Oleynik noted that the number of built boats "will depend on funding."
The Project 58155 armored boat ("Gyurza-M") was developed by the Ukrainian enterprise "State Research and Design Center for Shipbuilding" (Nikolaev) and is a further development of the Project 58150 ("Gyurza") boats, two units of which were built by "Leninskaya Kuznitsa" in 2004 for the border service of Uzbekistan using American funding (5,6 million dollars). The Project 58155 ("Gyurza-M") boat is larger than its prototype and has a full displacement of 50,7 tons, a length of 23 meters, a width of 4,8 meters and a draft of 1 meter. The maximum speed of the "Gyurza-M" is up to 25 knots, a cruising range at economic speed of 700 miles, and an endurance of five days. The crew is only five people. The boat's armament consists of two remotely controlled naval combat modules BM-5M.01 "Katran-M" (which our blog wrote about) produced by the State Enterprise "Mykolaiv Repair and Mechanical Plant", which are a version of the BM-3 "Shturm" combat module for armored vehicles. Each "Katran-M" module includes a 30-mm automatic cannon ZTM1, a 30-mm automatic grenade launcher and a 7,62-mm machine gun KT, as well as two ATGM "Barrier" with a laser guidance system. The boat is equipped with an optical-electronic fire control system and also has a portable air defense missile system.
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