BPS-500 class missile boat

Class overview
Name: BPS-500
Operators:  Vietnam People's Navy
Completed: 1
Active: 1
General characteristics
Type: Missile boat
Displacement: 520 tonnes
Length: 62 m (203 ft)
Beam: 11m
Speed: 30.0 knots (55.6 km/h; 34.5 mph)
Complement: 50
Sensors and
processing systems:		 Pozitiv ME multimode radar
Armament:

BPS-500 is a missile boat in service with the Vietnam People's Navy. She was the only missiles boat built under the project KBO 2000 where Vietnam started to domestically built this class in the late 1990s. KBO 2000 is a joint project between Russia and Vietnam in order to built missile boats in Vietnam with the assistance from Russia. Russia which is represented by Severnoye Project Design Bureau (SPKB) is involved in the design scheme of missile boats of the BPS-500 class as required by the Vietnam Navy.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ BPS-500
  2. ↑ NurW (2014-04-07). "DEFENSE STUDIES: Russia to Upgrade 'Unique' BPS-500 Missile Ship of Vietnam". Defense-studies.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  3. ↑ Minnick, Wendell (8 August 2017). "Vietnam Pushes Modernization as China Challenge Grows".
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