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COASTAL FORCES

BORDER GUARD SHIPS

PSKA-540 border guard boats (projects 1400, 1400M) (1968 - 1992)

AK-22 patrol craft (project 1400, 1400M) (1973 - 1989)

PSKA-540 1972

PSKA-565 1979

AK-326 2015

Names

pr. 1400:

ÏÑÊÀ-540-560 [PSKA-540-560]

AK-22

pr. 1400E:

ÏÑÊÀ-562 [PSKA-562]

pr. 1400A:

ÏÑÊÀ-532-535 [PSKA-532-535]

ÏÑÊÀ-537 [PSKA-537[

pr. 1400M:

ÏÑÊÀ-504-517 [PSKA-504-517]

ÏÑÊÀ-519-532 [PSKA-519-532]

ÏÑÊÀ-535-539 [PSKA-535-539]

ÏÑÊÀ-541-547 [PSKA-541-547]

ÏÑÊÀ-550 [PSKA-550]

ÏÑÊÀ-563-570 [PSKA-563-570]

ÏÑÊÀ-573-579 [PSKA-573-579]

AK-11

AK-38

AK-55

AK-326

AK-327

AK-382

AK-388

pr. 1400ME:

ÏÑÊÀ-500-503  [PSKA-500-503]

ÏÑÊÀ-548 [PSKA-548]

ÏÑÊÀ-549 [PSKA-549]

ÏÑÊÀ-551 [PSKA-551]

ÏÑÊÀ-571 [PSKA-571]

ÏÑÊÀ-572 [PSKA-572]

233 boats at all?

Builders

Primorsky/Almaz, Leningrad: 4 pr. 1400, 5 pr. 1400A

More, Feodosiya: 217 boats (216 pr. 1400, pr. 1400M and pr. 1400ME, 1 pr. 1400E)

Imeni 50-letiya Sovetskoy Gruzii, Batumi: 6 pr. 1400M

Commissioned

1968 - 1973: pr. 1400

1972 - 1974: pr. 1400A

1975: pr. 1400E

1975 - 1992: pr. 1400M

1969: PSKA-540, 541

1970: PSKA-542-547

1971: PSKA-548-552

1972: PSKA-532, 553-557

1973: PSKA-558-560

1975: PSKA-562-564

1976: PSKA-565-567

1977: PSKA-568, 569?

1978: PSKA-570, 571

1979: PSKA-572, 573, 577

1980: PSKA-576, 578, AK-55, 382

1981: PSKA-519, 520, 574, 575, 579, AK-38, 388

1982: PSKA-525-532, AK-11

1983: PSKA-500-503, 521-524

1984: PSKA-504

1985: PSKA-505, 506

1986: PSKA-510

1987: PSKA-507, 511-514

1988: PSKA-508, 509, 515-517

1989: AK-326

1990: PSKA-535-539, AK-327

1991: PSKA-541-544, 548, 549

1992: PSKA-545-547, 551

Losses

PSKA-514 (1988)

Transfers

Abkhazia (6): 1993- 1 (PSKA-563), 2004- 3 (PSKA-502, 541, 543), 2006- 2

Algeria (1): 1981- 1 pr. 1400ME

Angola (1): 1977- 1 pr. 1400ME

Azerbaijan (1): 7.1992- 1 (AK-55)

Benin (4): 1979- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1980- 1 pr. 1400ME

Bulgaria (14): 1977-1981 - 14 pr. 1400ME

Cabo Verde (3): 1980- 3 pr. 1400ME

Cameroun (3): 1985-1987- 3 pr. 1400ME

Campuchia (2): 1985- 1 pr. 1400ME, 1988- 1 pr. 1400ME

Congo (3): 1982-1984- 3 pr. 1400ME

Cuba (40): 1971-1989- 4 pr. 1400, 15 pr. 1400E/M, 21 pr. 1400ME

Equatorial Guinea (3): 1971- 1 pr. 1400, 1974- 1 pr. 1400E, 1975- 1 pr. 1400E

Estonia (2): 1992- 2 pr. 1400M

Ethiopia (4): 1982- 2, 1990- 2

Guinea (7): 1987- 3 pr. 1400, 2 pr. 1400E, 2 pr. 1400ME

Iraq (5): 1974 - 1 pr. 1400E/M, 1975- 4 pr. 1400E/M

Kazakhstan (4): 1997- 4 pr. 1400M

Mauritius (2): 1990- 2 pr. 1400ME

Mozambique (3): 1979- 1 pr. 1400ME, 1980- 2 pr. 1400ME

Seychelles (2): 1981- 1 pr. 1400ME, 1982- 1 pr. 1400ME

Somalia (1): 1974- 1 pr. 1400E

Syria (8): 1981- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1984- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1985- 2 pr. 1400ME

Turkmenistan (5): 1992- 5 pr. 1400M

Ukraine (32): 1997- 32

Vietnam (15): 1978- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1979- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1981- 1 pr. 1400ME, 1985- 1 pr. 1400ME, 1986- 3 pr. 1400ME, 1989- 2 pr. 1400ME, 1990- 2 pr. 1400ME

Yemen (North) (2): 1975- 2 pr. 1400E

Yemen (South) (9): 1978- 4 pr. 1400ME, 1984- 2 pr. 1400ME, 1987- 3 pr. 1400ME

Discarding

1988 - 2014: almost all

2015-2018: PSKA-500, 501, 503, 546-549, 551, 571, 572

in service (2019): AK-326, AK-388, PSKA-545

 

 

Displacement standard, t

pr. 1400, 1400M: 36

pr. 1400ME: 37

pr. 1400A: 34

Displacement full, t

pr. 1400, 1400M, 1400ME: 40

pr. 1400A: 37

Length, m

pr. 1400, 1400M, 1400ME: 23.8

pr. 1400A: 23.0

Breadth, m

5.15

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

pr. 1400: 2 M-401 diesels

pr. 1400E, 1400A: 2 M-401A diesels

pr. 1400M: 2 M-401B diesels

pr. 1400ME: 2 M-401BT diesels

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

pr. 1400, 1400E, 1400M, 1400ME: 29

pr. 1400A: 30

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

pr. 1400, 1400ME: 450(13)

pr. 1400M: 400(12)

pr. 1400A: 400(13)

Armament

pr. 1400: 1 x 2 - 14.5/89 or 1 x 2 - 12.7/79

pr. 1400E: 1 x 2 - 12.7/79

pr. 1400M: 1 x 2 - 12.7/79 or 1 x 2 - 14.5/89 or (1 x 2 - 14.5/89, 1 x 2 - 12.7/79)

pr. 1400ME: 1 x 2 - 12.7/79 or 2 x 2 - 12.7/79 or 1 x 2 - 14.5/89 or 2 x 2 - 14.5/89

Electronic equipment

Lotsiya or Liman or MR-241 Pechora-1 radar

Complement

9

pr. 1400A: 7 + 10 passengers

Project history: Patrol craft widely used by Border Guard, some boats served with Navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

1979

1996

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