Gurza-class boat

The Project 58150 Gurza (Levant viper) class is a series of small armored artillery boats built for the Uzbek Frontier Service. The whole class is produced by the Kuznya na Rybalskomu (Kiev).

Class overview
Name: Project 58150 (Gurza class)
Builders: Kuznya na Rybalskomu
Operators:  Uzbekistan
Succeeded by: Project 58155 Gurza-M
Subclasses: Centaur-class fast assault craft
Built: 2003-2005
In commission: 2005-present
Building: 2
Completed: 2
Cancelled: 0
Active: 2
Lost: 0
General characteristics
Displacement: 36 tons
Length: 20.3 m (66 ft 7 in)
Beam: 4.86 m (15 ft 11 in)
Draught: 0.86 m (2 ft 10 in)
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 450 miles (11 knots)
Complement: 5

The original and modernized classes are developed by the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center (Mykolaiv).

There were only 2 ships of Project 58150 Gurza in 2004 for the Uzbek Border Guard and were financed by the United States.

The modernized Project 58155 Gurza-M for the Ukrainian Navy started to be built at the Leninska Kuznya in October 2012.[1] Originally it was planned to build nine such vessels by 2017. In December 2013 the Ministry of Defense withdrew its contract.

In summer of 2014 construction of Gurza-M was revived and the first two vessels were expected to be completed in fall of 2015.[2] In December 2016 the first two Gurza-M officially joined the Ukrainian Navy.[3] The new military contract is for 20 vessels that should be completed by 2020.[3]

Operators

See also
  • Gyurza-M class artillery boats

References
  1. Ukraine is completing creation of the River battle fleet. Agency of Strategic Research. 3 January 2013
  2. At the capital city factory in shocking pace are being built armored boats for the Odessa river division of Ukrainian Navy. Dumskaya. 3 February 2015
  3. Year of Ukrainian arms: smashing "Thunder" and "Missile Shield", UNIAN (8 January 2017)
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