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IRAQI NAVY (IRAQ)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

421 inshore minesweepers (1975)

421 1975

Names

421

423

425

Builders

Sredne-Nevskiy, Pontonnyy, USSR: 421, 423, 425

Commissioned

1975: 421, 423, 425

Losses

1 unit (1/1991)

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1990s: 2 units

 

Displacement standard, t

88

Displacement full, t

97

Length, m

26.1

Breadth, m

5.40

Draught, m

1.38

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 3D12 diesels

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

350(10)

Armament

1 x 2 - 25/82 2M-3M, 1 x 7 - 55 MRG-1 GL, 2 DCR (12), IT-1 Neva-1 USV or MT-3U or OPT-1 mechanical or SEMT-1 magnetic or AT-2 acoustic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

Kivach radar, MG-7 Braslet sonar

Complement

10

Project history: Soviet-built inshore minesweepers of export project 1258E. Officially classified as 'hydrographical vessels'

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: One boat was sunk by allied aircraft in January-February 1991.

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