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IRAQI NAVY (IRAQ)

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

ATIKA medium landing ships (1976-1979)

Atika 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
عتيقة [Atika] 72   Stocznia Marinarki Woena, Gdynia, Poland   3.5.1976 1976 sunk 1-2/1991
جنادة [Janada] 74   Stocznia Marinarki Woena, Gdynia, Poland   16.10.1976 1977 sunk 11.1980
جندى [Ganda] 76   Stocznia Marinarki Woena, Gdynia, Poland   5.1.1978 1978 defected to Iran 1-2/1991
نوح [Nouh] 78   Stocznia Marinarki Woena, Gdynia, Poland   5.2.1979 1979 sunk 1-2/1991

 

Displacement standard, t

920

Displacement full, t

1192

Length, m

81.3

Breadth, m

9.70

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 40DM diesels

Power, h. p.

4400

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2600(12)

Armament

2 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 2 x 18 - 140 WM-18 RL (180), helicopter deck

Military load

6 medium tanks, 180 troops or 240 t of cargo

Electronic equipment

Donets, MR-104 Rys' radars

Complement

45

Project history: Medium landing ships of Soviet project 773K (designed specially for Iraqi navy).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Janada was sunk by Harpoon missiles from Iranian aircraft in November 1980. Atika and Nouh were sunk by Allied aircraft in 1991. Ganda defected to Iran in time of Allied aggression.

1977

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