Summary
The Mangust-class patrol boat, Russian designation 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.[3]
 A Mangust-class patrol boat beside a Sobol-class patrol boat
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Mangust class |
| Builders | Vympel Shipyard |
| Operators |  Russian Coast Guard
 Russian Navy |
| In commission | 2001 |
| Completed | 62[1] |
| Active | 61 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Fast patrol craft |
| Displacement | 27.2 t (26.8 long tons; 30.0 short tons) |
| Length | 19.45 m (63 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 0.89 m (2 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 × M470M Zvezda ZE or MTU 10V 2000 M93 or M470MK Zvezda 1 x Diesel Generator |
| Speed | Max: 50 knots (93 km/h; 58 mph) |
| Range | 410 nmi (760 km; 470 mi) |
| Endurance | 2 days |
| Complement | 6 |
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Design edit
The craft has a 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. The crafts 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 missions such as boarding operations.[4]
Operators edit
Current (2022) edit
- Baltic Fleet: 13 boats in operation
- Black Sea Fleet: 26 boats in operation
- Pacific Fleet: 11 boats in operation
- Caspian Flotilla: 11 boats in operation
Former edit
2 boats were transferred from the Black Sea Fleet to the Baltic Fleet in 2016. In 2019, one Mangust-class patrol boat, PSKA-600, was decommissioned and given to a civilian buyer.[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Coast guard patrol boat - Project 12150". Russianships.info.
- ^ Novichkov, Nikolai (31 July 2018). "Russian FACs receive Uprava-Kord RCWS". Jane's.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Mangust". VYYMPEL Shipyard JSC. Retrieved 14 September 2017.[dead link]
- ^ "Project 12150 Mangust Fast Patrol Boats, Russia". Homeland Security Technology. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Coast guard patrol boat - Project 12150". russianships.info. Retrieved 2022-02-06.