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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

COASTAL FORCES

G-8 type motor torpedo boat (1940)

G-8 1944

Names

Ã-8 [G-8]

Builders

TsAGI, Moscow: G-8

Completed

8/1940: G-8

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1950s: G-8

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

31

Length, m

24.2

Breadth, m

3.78

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 GAM-34BPF petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

petrol 4.2

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 - 533 TT

Complement

10

Project history: Experimental MTB leader. Unsuccessful design, very slow and badly armed.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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