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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

COASTAL FORCES

L-5 type air cushion motor torpedo boats (1939-1940)

TKL-1 1940

Names

าสห-1 - 4 [TKL-1 - 4]

Builders

 

Completed

1939: TKL-1

1940: TKL-2 - 4

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1941: TKL-1 - 4

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

11

Length, m

24.0

Breadth, m

5.40

Draught, m

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No of shafts

---

Machinery

petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

70

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 - 450 TT (stern)

Complement

5

Project history: First-ever air-cushion fighting ships with real battle value. After beginning of Great Patriotic war all were laid up and consequently stricken.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ivan Gogin, 2009-14