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AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

... landing craft (hydrofoil) (project 80) (1968 - 1972)

Names

26 craft

Builders

Oka, Navashino: 26 craft

Commissioned

1968 - 1972: 26 craft

Losses

unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding

1980s-1990s: all

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 M-50F diesel

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

31.3

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

189

Armament

none

Military load

1 medium tank (on 2 boats)

Complement

2

Project history: LCM boats built for Board Guard and Navy, successors of A-3. Full number of boats used as landing is unknown (also many boats served as workboats, tugs, cargo carriers etc). Built in Leningrad (5 Yd, 2 T-4 in 1957), Petrozavodsk (T-4), Khabarovsk (T-4, T-4M), Liepaja (29 Yd, T-4M), Tallin (7 Yd, 36 T-4 since 1968), Blagoveshchensk (T-4M).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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