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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

COASTAL FORCES

'KM-4' patrol boats (1950s)

Soviet prototype 1950

Names

10 boats

Builders

North Korea: 10 boats

Completed

1950s: 10 boats

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1980s: 10 boats

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

10

Length, m

14.0

Breadth, m

3.20

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

petrol engines

Power, h. p.

146

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 1 x 1 - 14.5/93

Complement

10

Project history: Korean version of WWII-era Soviet minesweeping/patrol launch of KM-4 project.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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