Mangust class patrol boat

A Mangust class patrol boat beside a Sobol class patrol boat
Class overview
Name: Mangust class
Builders: Vympel Shipyard
Operators:  Russian Coast Guard
In commission: 2001
Building: 4
Completed: 56
General characteristics
Type: Fast patrol craft
Displacement: 27.2 t (26.8 long tons; 30.0 short tons)
Length: 19.45 m (63.8 ft)
Beam: 4.4 m (14 ft)
Draft: 0.89 m (2.9 ft)
Speed: Max: 50 kn (93 km/h; 58 mph)
Range: 410 nm
Endurance: 2 days
Complement: 6
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Integrated navigation system
  • Navigation radar
  • Communication systems
Armament:

The Mangust-class patrol boat, also known as Project 12150, is a Russian Coast Guard vessel. The patrol craft is designed to operate in coastal areas, ports, and other littoral areas, to perform missions like protection of territorial maritime borders, law enforcement, other defense missions, search and rescue, protection of fisheries, and enforcing rules of navigation.[1]

Design

The patrol craft have a more modern design with various comforts for the crew like low noise levels, air conditioning and well designed layout for better working and living conditions for the crew. They have a good suite of weapons for a boat of it's size, they are armed with a variety of weapons to engage surface, air, and underwater threats. They are also equipped with a small boat to allow the boat to perform is missions or do things like boarding another vessel.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mangust". roe. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Project 12150 Mangust Fast Patrol Boats, Russia". homelandsecurity-technology. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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