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G-6 type motor torpedo boat (1939)

G-6 1939

Names

Ã-6 [G-6]

Builders

TsAGI, Moscow: G-6

Completed

6/1939: G-6

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1940s: G-6

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

86

Length, m

34.9 pp 36.5 max

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

8 GAM-34BPF petrol engines

Power, h. p.

7760

Max speed, kts

50

Fuel, t

petrol 8.9
Endurance, nm(kts) 435(28)

Armament

1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 12.7/79, 1 x 4 - 7.6/94, 3 - 533 TT (stern) or 3 mines

Complement

30

Project history: Designed since 1931 by TsAGI as fast seaworthy MTB leader (in analogy to destroyer leaders). Dural stepped hull. Under the project armament should include 1 45mm gun, 3 12.7mm and 1 7.62mm MGs, 3 533mm torpedo chutes and 1 triple trainable TT, but latter because of revealed lacks was removed. On trials the boat reached 55.3kts at 55t displacement. This project was never built in series, lead boat 20.6.1939 was commissioned as G-6, and used as auxiliary.

Modernizations: 8.1942: - 1 x 1 - 45/43, 1 x 4 - 7.6/94, 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 37/63 70K

Naval service: No significant events.

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