ORP Orzeł (Kilo class)
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- For other ships of the Polish Navy named ORP Orzeł see: (disambiguation)
 Kilo-class submarine |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned | April 29, 1986 |
| Decommissioned | |
| Fate | in service |
| Current position | Gdynia |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | |
| surfaced | 2460 tons |
| submerged | 3180 tons |
| Length | 72,6 m |
| Beam | 12.8 m |
| Draft | 14,5 m |
| Speed | |
| surfaced | 12 knots ( km/h) |
| submerged | 17 knots ( km/h) |
| Complement | 60 |
| Armament | 6 533,4 mm torpedo tubes for: guided electric TEST-71 torpedoes guided 53-65K oxygen-propelled torpedoes 32 naval mines |
ORP Orzeł is a Polish Navy Project 877E (Kilo class in NATO code) submarine. It is the third ship to bear this name.
The ship was built by the Sudomekh Shipyard in Leningrad (currently New Admirality Shipyard in St. Petersburg). It was commissioned on April 29, 1986 in Riga. On June 13 of the same year it was transferred to Gdynia where on June 21 it was christened. It was assigned to the 3rd Flotilla based in Gdynia, where it currently serves under kmdr ppor. Andrzej Ogrodnik.
