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Petar Kresimir IV - Fast Missile Corvette

The fast Missile Corvette (FMC) “Kralj Petar Krešimir IV” is designed for autonomous offensive combat operations against sea, land and underwater targets with the possibilities of becoming the commanding ship of a squadron of FACs or of FMCs. The favorable hull form and sufficient freeboard at bow, are designed and model tested to give the ship excellent seakeeping properties, enabling her to be run to the limit of sea state 4 WMO, and to be run at reduced engine power up to a sea state 6 WMO. The hull is divided into 10 watertight compartments (two separate watertight engine rooms) enabling her to float even with two adjacent compartment flooded.

The ship is provided with following systems: navigation, communication, radiological detection, secondary NBC protection, air conditioning, fire fighting, automatically degaussing and damage control. Vital equipment on board is shock resistant to underwater blasts, as well as to shocks produced by firing of own armament. By means of resilient mounting of noise/vibrations gene-rating equipment and fitting of acoustic insulation, the obtained acoustic noise and vibrations levels are within very favourable limits. Fixed pitch propellers, shafting and rudders are carefully designed and model tested in order to avoid generation of excessive vibrations.

The mainstay of her Combat System is the Swedish PEAB (Celsius Tech) LV 249 command and weapon control system with the integrated weapon system, adapted it for the control of the Russian AK630 gun. Radar and laser radiation detectors that are part of the Electronic Warfare System are also used as sensors for the “soft kill” anti-ship missile defense, based on the Barricade radar and IR deception system. The RIZ sonar PP10M serves as antidiversion sensor equipment. Additionally, up to six anti-ship mines can be esiliy mounted on the aft deck. The ship’s CIC is built around three control consoles: horizontal Tactical and Missile, vertical Gun control for air engagement and Surface Gun for search and air back-up dutiesa.