New boat type "Raptor" October 7, 2017 JSC "Leningrad Shipyard Pella" (Otradnoe, Leningrad region) reported the signing of the act of acceptance and transfer to the customer (Russian Navy) of the next "patrol boat" project 03160 (code "Raptor") with the building number 712, the composition of the Baltic Fleet is presumably P-345. The launch was launched on 30 May, the acceptance certificate was signed on 29 September.
This is the first boat of the project 03160, built by the Pella plant in 2017, and the fourth, built under the contract for the construction of eight boats of this type, concluded with the Russian Defense Ministry in May 2016. Earlier, two boats for this contract P-415 and P-425 (building numbers 709 and 711) were launched at Pella in December 2016 and became part of the Black Sea Fleet on May 8, 2017, and another P-342 "Unarmeets" Baltika "(building number 710), launched on December 14, 2016, was transferred to the Baltic Fleet.
August 24, 2017 at the factory "Pella" was launched the next boat of this type with the building number 713, planned to be entered into the Caspian Flotilla.
Earlier, under the previous contract in 2014, the Pella plant passed to the Ministry of Defense of Russia eight project 03160 vessels during 2015 - four planned for the 2014 program, and four for the 2015 program. Of these boats, seven (building numbers from 701 to 705 and from 707 to 708) are officially listed as part of the Russian Navy counter-sabotage boats. In fact, according to known data, these boats are used in fleets as part of naval reconnaissance points for special purposes. Of these, two boats (P-280 and P-281, the corresponding building numbers 705 and 704) are part of the Baltic Fleet, based on Kronstadt, and the remaining five (P-274, P-275, P-276, P-838, P-845) - are part of the Black Sea Fleet, based on Novorossiysk and Sevastopol.
Another cutter of project 03160 P-344 with building number 706, commissioned in August 2015, was built in the form of a communications boat - in fact, as a traveling boat for VIP transport. Formally considered to be part of the Baltic Fleet, the P-344 boat is constantly moored at the DBR-481 berthing berth complex-project 02590 of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation on the Frunzenskaya embankment of the Moskva River, and, apparently, is used as a personal cutter of the Minister of Defense Russia.
The head boat (prototype) of the RM-15 project 03160 Raptor, designed and built by Pella on the instructions of the Russian Navy, was launched at the enterprise on August 15, 2013 and handed over to the Navy in 2014, and is now being used as part of the Black Sea Fleet. Thus, "Pella" has surrendered in total 13 already boats project 03160.
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