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Country: Syria.
Class, [Type]: Petya III ( Project 159 ), [FF].

Builder: Khabarovsky Shipyard, USSR.
Launch date: 15 May 1968.
Commission date: 1975.

Displacement ( tons ): 950 standard, 1150 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 81,8 x 9,2 x 3.
Main machinery: CODAG: 2 x SGW, Nikolayev M-8G gas turbine ( 30000 hp ), 1 x B-68 diesels ( 6000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 30.
Range ( miles ): 4900 at 10 knots.
Complement: 98 ( 8 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 2 AK-726 76mm.
Torpedoes: 1 x 3 400mm.
A/S weapons: 4 x 4 mortars RBU-2500.
Mines: 22.

Radars: Air: Stput Curve; Surface: Don-2; Fire Control: Hawk Screech.
Sonars: Herkules.
Comment: Ex-USSR NAVY ship SKR-95.
Year of visit the Black Sea:  1981

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