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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

COASTAL FORCES

'SIN HUNG' / 'KU SONG' fast attack craft (torpedo) (1955-1970)

1975

Names

124 boats

Builders

North Korea: 124 boats

Commissioned

1955-1970: 124 boats

Losses

none

Transfers

Zaire, 1987: 2 boats

Discarding

late 1990s: 9 boats

early 2000s: 50 boats

in service (2019): 63 boats

  

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

25

Length, m

19.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 M-50F diesels

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

500(20)

Armament

most: 2 x 2 - 14.5/89, 2 - 450 TT

some: 2 x 2 - 14.5/89, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

Zarnitsa or type 351 radar

Complement

15 - 20

Project history: MTB built in North Korea, resembled Soviet D-3 class MTBs.

Modernizations: 1990s-2000s, many: - 2 - 450 TT or - 2 - 533 TT

Naval service: No significant events.

1991

2012, no TT

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