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BENIN NAVY (BENIN)

COASTAL FORCES

MATELOT BRICE KPOMASSE patrol boats (2000-2013)

Names

798 Matelot Brice Kromasse

799 La Sota

800 Couffo

Builders

China: 798-800

Commissioned

2000: 798, 799

2013: 800

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

in service (2020): 798-800

  

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

80

Length, m

25.0 pp 27.0 oa

Breadth, m

4.10

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 2 - 14.5/93

Electronic equipment

JRC radar

Complement

13

Project history: Chinese design. Couffo, delivered in 2013, is slightly faster.

Modernizations: none

Naval service: No significant events.

Matelot Brice Kromasse and La Sota 2001

© Ivan Gogin, 2020