P 4 class torpedo boat
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P 4 class torpedo boat is the Soviet aluminum-hulled hydroplanes armed with 2 450 mm torpedoes. This class is thoroughly obsolete but did not completely retired from active service and placed in reserve until the mid 1990’s. These Chinese built units had the radar added. The People's Liberation Army Navy transferred this class to naval militia for training purposes and because to these boats are kept and maintained on land due to its small size, they are in better conditions than larger units in the reserve and mothballed fleet.
In addition to training duties for naval militia, some of the surviving units have been converted to target drone and thus returned to active service as minor support auxiliaries. Just like the Yulin class gunboat, and the drone is controlled by larger converted gunboats such as the Shantou, Huangpu and Beihai classes. When the drone is in operation, crew departs the boat.
[edit] Specification
- Displacement: 22.5 t
- Length: 19.3 m
- Beam: 3.7 m
- Draft: 1. m
- Speed: 55 kt
- Propulsion: 2 Soviet M50 diesel engines @ 2,400 hp with 2 shafts
- Complement: 12
- Armament: 2 450 mm torpedoes & 2 14.5 mm heavy machine guns (II x 1)
- Radar: 1 Soviet I-band Skin Head navigational radar
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