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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

COASTAL FORCES

'CHONG JIN' fast attack craft (gun) (1975-1980s)

Names

55 boats

Builders

North Korea: 55 boats

Completed

1975-1980s: 55 boats

Losses

1 boat (14.6.1999 sunk by South Korean forces)

Transfers

none

Discarding

in service (2019): 54 boats

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

82

Length, m

27.7

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 M50F-4 diesels

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 325(19)

Armament

1 x 1 - 85/55 ZIS-S-53, 2 x 2 - 14.5/89

Electronic equipment Zarnitsa or type 351 radar

Complement

24

Project history: Steel-hulled version of Soviet project 183 with tank turret forward.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2019