NAVYPEDIA

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1978

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
34 boats (No 260 and so on) 1991, 5 boats were returned to service as: 701 ثر، ذر [Thar] 703 نور [Nur] 713 نسر [Nisr] 719 نمر [Nimr] أل بهر [Al Bahr]	USSR: 34 boats	1949-1956 // 4.1956: 12 boats 1949-1960 // 1960: 6 boats 1949-1960 // 1962: 6 boats 1949-1960 // 1970: 12 boats	1 boat (4.11.1956), 1 boat (4.11.1956), 1 boat (12.7.1967), 1 boat (12.7.1967), 1 boat (11.7.1967), 1 boat (11.7.1967), 1 boat (1969), 1 boat (1969), 1 boat (22.1.1970), 1 boat (22.1.1970)	none	early 1980s: 13 boats 1985-1986: 13 boats in service (2019): 701, 703, 713, 719, Al Bahr

Technical data

Data variant	as completed	Coast Guard conversion
Displacement standard, t	57	56
Displacement full, t	67	67
Length, m	25.5	25.9
Breadth, m	6.18	6.24
Draught, m	1.24	1.24
No of shafts	4	4
Machinery	4 M-50FTK diesels	4 M-50F-4 diesels
Power, h. p.	6000	4800
Max speed, kts	43	45
Fuel, t	diesel oil	diesel oil 7
Endurance, nm(kts)	1000(14)	1000(14)
Armament	2 x 2 - 25/80 2M-3M, 2 x 1 - 533 TT or 18 mines, 8 DC	2 x 2 - 23/87 ZU-23-2
Electronic equipment	Zarnitsa radar	Decca 1226 radar
Complement	14	16

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Project history

Former Soviet Project 183 MTBs.

Modernizations

early 1970s, 12 boats: - 1 x 2 - 25/80, 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 40 -122 BM-21 Grad RL

early 1970s, 2 boats: + 2 - 533 TT (4 TTs at all)

In 1991 five boats were returned to service as patrol boats for Coast Guard with data as given in the table.

Naval service

No significant events.