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SOUTH YEMEN NAVY (SOUTH YEMEN) / YEMENI NAVY (YEMEN)

COASTAL FORCES

No 116 fast attack craft (missile) (1972-1977/1979-1983, 1980-1982)

No 118 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
pr. 205ER
  118   Vympel, Rybinsk, USSR     1.1980 Yemen unification 5.1990, retired 2004
  119   Vympel, Rybinsk, USSR     1.1980 Yemen unification 5.1990, lost 1994
  121   Vympel, Rybinsk, USSR     1.1982 Yemen unification 5.1990, retired 2004
pr. 205U
  116   USSR     1972-77 // 1.1979 Yemen unification 5.1990, lost 1994
  117   USSR     1972-77 // 2.4.1979 Yemen unification 5.1990, lost 1994
  120   USSR     1972-77 // 12.1980 Yemen unification 5.1990, retired 2004
  122   USSR     1972-77 // 24.2.1983 Yemen unification 5.1990, in service (2020)
  123   USSR     1972-77 // 9.1983 Yemen unification 5.1990, lost 1994

 

Displacement standard, t

pr. 205U: 192

Displacement full, t

pr. 205U: 235

pr. 205ER: 243

Length, m

38.6

Breadth, m

7.60

Draught, m

pr. 205U: 1.84

pr. 205ER: 2.00

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 M-504B diesels

Power, h. p.

15000

Max speed, kts

42

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

pr. 205U: 1800(14)

pr. 205ER: 1620(15)

Armament

4 x 1 P-15U SSM (4 P-15U), 2 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230

Sensors

MR-101 Rangout, MR-104 Rys' radars

Complement

29

Project history: Former Soviet project 205U fast attack craft and project 205ER craft built specially for export.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Nos 116, 117, 119, 120 and 123 were lost or irreparably damaged during the Yemeni civil war of 1994.

© Ivan Gogin, 2020