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VELEBIT midget submarine (1985/1996)

Velebit 2000

Names

P01 Velebit (ex-Ñî÷à [Soča])

Builders

BSO Split: P01

Completed

1985 // 1996: P01

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

2003: P01

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

88 / 99

Length, m

20.9

Breadth, m

2.70

Draught, m

4.42 molded depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel-generator, 2 Koncar electric motors

Power, h. p.

140 / 49

Max speed, kts

8 / 11

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 500(8) / 135(3)

Armament

6 500kg mines or 4 R1 swimmer delivery vehicles

Electronic equipment radar, PP-10, PSU-1-2 sonars

Complement

4 + 6 swimmers

Diving depth operational, m 105

Project history: Yugoslavian design, M-100D type. Fitted with exit/re-entry chambers for swimmers. Designed to defend approaches to small shallow waters harbours. Soča was captured in 1991 during breakup of Yugoslavia. Building yard at Split added a section incorporating a generator set. Modified submarine was relaunched in September 1993.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Velebit 1997

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