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EGYPTIAN NAVY (EGYPT)

COASTAL FORCES

No 260 fast attack craft (torpedo) (1949-1960/1956-1970)

No 260 1965

Names

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]

Builders

USSR: 34 boats

Commissioned

1949-1956 // 4.1956: 12 boats

1949-1960 // 1960: 6 boats

1949-1960 // 1962: 6 boats

1949-1960 // 1970: 12 boats

Losses

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)

Transfers

none

Discarding

early 1980s: 13 boats

1985-1986: 13 boats

in service (2019): 701, 703, 713, 719, Al Bahr

 

 

Data variant as completed

Displacement standard, t

57

Displacement full, t

67

Length, m

25.5

Breadth, m

6.18

Draught, m

1.24

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 M-50FTK diesels

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

43

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(14)

Armament

2 x 2 - 25/80 2M-3M, 2 x 1 - 533 TT or 18 mines, 8 DC

Sensors

Zarnitsa radar

Complement

14

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.

 

Data variant Coast Guard conversion

Displacement standard, t

56

Displacement full, t

67

Length, m

25.9

Breadth, m

6.24

Draught, m

1.24

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 M-50F-4 diesels

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

diesel oil 7

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(14)

Armament

2 x 2 - 23/87 ZU-23-2

Sensors

Decca 1226 radar

Complement

16

Naval service: No significant events.

1978

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