Project 183R PTG Komar Class
Soviet missile boats include Komar [Mosquito] class, with a range of 800 nautical miles at 25 knots and 400 nautical miles at 30 knots respectively. They are armed with the Styx missile, which has a range of 18 miles and carries a 1100-pound conventional warhead. The development of the P-15 Styx SS-N-2 missile began in 1954, with the first launch in October 1957 from a Komar FAC prototype.
The first in the world missile boats were built at ALMAZ. Manouevring high-speed boats of 183Ð project equipped with ship-to-ship cruise missiles became new efficient arms of the Navy. In compliance with higher requirements of the Navy to the composition of arms, navigability and operational capability a project of a new steel hulled missile boat was developed. The results of performed scientific-and- engineering works and full-scale tests of the boat of 183Ð project underlay the basis of creation of the boat of 205 project.
The October 1967 destruction of the Israeli destroyer Eilat by 'Styx' anti-ship missiles fired from an Egyptian Komar-class vessel which set off the explosion in fast attack craft [FAC] sales. This followed the proliferation of Soviet-produced Project 183R Komar-class and Project 205 Osa-class FAC in the navies of the then Warsaw Pact and other Soviet client states.
The usage of boats with missile weapons in combat actions proved to be very important for increasing the defensive capacity of the country. Missile boats are a universal means of destruction of an enemy's ships and vehicles, of guard of the coastal area and of struggle against landing troops.
The boat of the project 183P "Komar" had a hangar type launcher, and the wings of a rocket did not unfold. The launcher rails were were rigidly fixed at an angle of 11,5 °. The launcher was originally made 4.5 meters long, and then it was shortened to 2,75 m. The weight of the launcher is 1100 kg. Under the project the boat of the project 183P could fire rockets at speeds from 15 up to 30 knots and a condition of the sea up to sea state 4. Reloading launchers it was made in base, thus on one rocket it was spent about 30 minutes. On the boat it was placed PUS "Klen" which obtained the data from RLS "Rangout". Function PUS was development of a fighting rate of a boat and its deduction on a rate, development of time of independent flight of a rocket, parameters onboard and keel rolling for stabilization of a rocket etc. Reserve means for targeting was optical sight PMK-453.
