| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Project 58150 (Gyurza class) |
| Builders | Kuznya na Rybalskomu |
| Operators | 
Uzbekistan |
| Succeeded by | Project 58155 Gyurza-M |
| Subclasses | Centaur-class fast assault craft |
| Built | 2003–2005 |
| In commission | 2005-present |
| Building | 2 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Cancelled | 0 |
| Active | 2 |
| Lost | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 36 tons |
| Length | 20.3 m (66 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 4.86 m (15 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 0.86 m (2 ft 10 in) |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range | 450 miles (11 knots) |
| Complement | 5 |
The Project 58150 Gyurza class is a series of small armored gunboats built for the Uzbek Frontier Service. The whole class is produced by the Kuznya na Rybalskomu ( Kyiv). The class is named after the Levant viper, Гюрза, Hiurza, in Ukrainian.
The original and modernized classes are developed by the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center ( Mykolaiv).
There were only two ships of Project 58150 Gyurza in 2004 for the Uzbek Border Guard and were financed by the United States.[ citation needed]
The modernized Project 58155 Gyurza-M for the Ukrainian Navy started to be built at the Leninska Kuznya in October 2012. [1] Originally it was planned to build nine such vessels by 2017. In December 2013 the Ministry of Defense withdrew its contract.
In summer of 2014 construction of Gyurza-M was revived and the first two vessels were expected to be completed in fall of 2015. [2] In December 2016 the first two Gyurza-M officially joined the Ukrainian Navy. [3] The new military contract is for 20 vessels that should be completed by 2020. [3]
Operators
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Uzbekistan:
Uzbek Frontier Service (
Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan)
- 2 river gunboats (Dzhaikhun and Saikhun) commissioned in 2005 and stationed in Termez patrolling Amu Darya on the border with Afghanistan.
See also
References
- ^ Ukraine is completing creation of the River battle fleet. Agency of Strategic Research. 3 January 2013
- ^ At the capital city factory in shocking pace are being built armored boats for the Odessa river division of Ukrainian Navy. Dumskaya. 3 February 2015
- ^ a b Year of Ukrainian arms: smashing "Thunder" and "Missile Shield", UNIAN (8 January 2017)