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KOREA (NORTH)
COASTAL FORCES
'SIN HUNG' / 'KU SONG' fast attack craft (torpedo) (1955-1970)


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1991

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

124 boats

North Korea: 124 boats

1955-1970: 124 boats

none

Zaire, 1987: 2 boats

late 1990s: 9 boats

early 2000s: 50 boats

in service (2019): 63 boats



Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

25

Length, m

19.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 M-50F diesels

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)500(20)
Armament

most: 2 x 2 - 14.5/89, 2 - 450 TT

some: 2 x 2 - 14.5/89, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

Zarnitsa or type 351 radar

Complement

15 - 20



Standard scale images


1975
1975


Graphics


2012, no TT
2012, no TT
1991
1991


Project history

MTB built in North Korea, resembled Soviet D-3 class MTBs.

Modernizations

1990s-2000s, many: - 2 - 450 TT or - 2 - 533 TT

Naval service

No significant events.