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Matka-class missile boat

{{Short description|Class of Soviet hydrofoil missile boats}}

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| Ship caption = Caspian MRK 702

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{{Infobox ship class overview

| Name = Matka class (Project 206MR Vikhr)

| Builders =

| Operators = *{{navy|Soviet Union}}

  • {{navy|Russia}}
  • {{navy|Ukraine}}
  • {{navy|Georgia (country)}}

| Class before = {{sclass2|Osa|missile boat|1}}

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| Cost =

| Built range =

| In service range = 1977- present day

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| Total ships building =

| Total ships planned =

| Total ships completed = 12

| Total ships cancelled =

| Total ships active = 1

| Total ships laid up =

| Total ships lost = 1

| Total ships retired = 10

| Total ships preserved = 1

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| Ship type = Hydrofoil missile boat

| Ship displacement = *233 tons standard

  • 257 tons full load

| Ship length = {{convert|38.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship beam = {{convert|7.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship height =

| Ship draught = {{convert|3.26|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship power =

| Ship propulsion = 3 × M503 B2 Diesels; {{convert|15,000|hp|kW|abbr=on}} or Zvezda M504

| Ship speed = {{convert|42|kn}}

| Ship range = *{{convert|600|nmi}} at {{convert|37|kn}}

  • {{convert|1450|nmi}} at {{convert|14|kn}}

| Ship endurance = 5 days

| Ship test depth =

| Ship boats =

| Ship complement = 30

| Ship time to activate =

| Ship sensors = *MR-101 radar(from P-260 onwards)

  • Omega navigation radar(not on P-15)

| Ship EW = *Pchlea EW radar(on P 262)

  • Decoy launchers

| Ship armament = *1 × AK-176 gun

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The Matka class is the NATO reporting name for a group of hydrofoil missile boats built for the Soviet Navy (Baltic Fleet and Black Sea Fleet). The Soviet designation was Project 206MR Vikhr. Following the 1997 Black Sea Fleet partition treaty all Black Sea Fleet Matka class boats were passed to the Ukrainian Navy.

Design

These boats are the descendants of the {{sclass2|Osa|missile boat|1}} and are a heavily modified version of the {{sclass2|Turya|torpedo boat|1}}. There is only a single foil, the aft part of the hull hydroplanes at high speeds. They are air-conditioned and NBC-sealed. The SS-N-2 launchers are the same type as carried on the Project 61MR ("Mod-Kashin")-class destroyers. Despite initial reports that they were good seaboats, later information revealed that the Soviets regarded them as cramped inside and top-heavy. Of thirteen planned ships, one was cancelled and another started but never completed. All were built in Leningrad.

After the breakup of the USSR, Russia discarded many and five went to Ukraine, one of which was later transferred to Georgia after a complete refurbishment.

Project 206.6

R-44 serves as a developmental ship for the Black Sea Fleet, and was the first vessel anywhere to carry the Kh-35 missile, in two quad-canisters. These were removed in 2000 but re-installed in 2003. In 1998, the SP-521 combat data system was installed. R-44 also has the AK-630М1-2 Roy CIWS which is two 30 mm gatling guns superimposed on each other, in place of the AK-630. More recently, the ship has been seen with no "Drum Tilt" radar and a large deckhouse between the bridge and mast.

Combat usage

On August 10, a special forces team from the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) launched a raid on the port of Poti. Most of the Georgian fleet was anchored in port, but unmanned due their crews expecting further air attacks (a day earlier the Russians launched two Tochka-U missiles, killing five sailors), allowing the VDV commandos to board, mine and sink several Georgian Navy and Coast Guard vessels, including the Tbilisi.{{sfn|Galeotti|2023|pages=109,112}}

Trivia

In Russian language, the word "matka" (NATO given name) means literally mother. The word has also meaning "queen" (of insect hive), which is the most likely connotation, since previous missile boat classes were named Osa and Komar, meaning "wasp" and "mosquito".

Ships

A total of 12 boats were built for the Soviet Navy. A gun boat version without hydrofoils was offered for export.

  • {{navy|Ukraine}} - 1 boat The Pryluky in service (2017)
  • {{navy|Georgia}} - 1 boat The Tbilisi (თბილისი) transferred from Ukraine, sunk by the Russian Airborne troops in Poti port during the 2008 South Ossetia war

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Name

! Hull No.

! width=12% | Commissioned

! width=10% | Service

! Decommissioned

! Status

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|«Р-27»

style="text-align:center;" |241style="text-align:center;" |31 December 1977Blt, Cspstyle="text-align:center;" |10 April 2002Scrapped
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|«Р-44»

style="text-align:center;" |242style="text-align:center;" |30 September 1978Blt, BSestyle="text-align:center;" |5 October 2008Since 2001 - Corsar («Корсар»). In 1984-85 modernised by project 2066
Scrapped
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|«Р-50»

style="text-align:center;" |243style="text-align:center;" |30 December 1978Blt, Cspstyle="text-align:center;" |2014Since 15 August 2004 - Karachaevo-Cherkesia («Карачаево-Черкесия»)
Decommissioned. Opened 29 August 2015 as museum Pokrovskiy storozhevoy («Покровский сторожевой») in the city of Engels, Saratov Oblast{{Cite web |title=Missile boat - Project 206MR |url=https://russianships.info/eng/warfareboats/project_206mr.htm |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=russianships.info}}
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|«Р-221»

style="text-align:center;" |244style="text-align:center;" |30 December 1978Bltstyle="text-align:center;" |16 March 1998Scrapped
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|«Р-254»

style="text-align:center;" |245style="text-align:center;" |10 January 1979Bltstyle="text-align:center;" |5 July 1994Scrapped
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|«Р-260»

style="text-align:center;" |246style="text-align:center;" |21 December 1979BSe, Ukrainestyle="text-align:center;" |30 November 2004Since 10 January 1996 - Uman («Умань»)
Scrapped
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|«Р-262»

style="text-align:center;" |247style="text-align:center;" |12 December 1980BSe, UkraineSince 10 January 1996 - Pryluky («Прилуки»)
When part of Ukrainian Navy in December 2018 the anti-ship missile launch system «Termit» was removed. In plans to have Neptune missile system installed

[https://www.ukrmilitary.com/2018/09/neptun-na-pryluki.html Missile boat "Pryluly" will receive a new engine and anti-ship missile "Neptune" (РКА «Прилуки» отримає новий двигун та ПКР «Нептун»)]. Ukrainian Military Portal. 13 September 2019

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|«Р-265»

style="text-align:center;" |248style="text-align:center;" |15 November 1980BSe, Ukrainestyle="text-align:center;" |7 November 2012Since 10 January 1996 - Kakhovka («Каховка»).
Scrapped
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|«Р-251»

style="text-align:center;" |249style="text-align:center;" |15 June 1981BSe, Ukrainestyle="text-align:center;" |30 June 2001Since 10 January 1996 - Tsyurupinsk («Цюрупінськ»)
Scrapped
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|«Р-15»

style="text-align:center;" |250style="text-align:center;" |29 October 1981BSe, Ukraine,
Georgia		style="text-align:center;" |13 August 2008Since 10 January 1996 - Konotop («Конотоп»), since 30 June 1999 - Tbilisi («Тбилиси»)
Sunk by the Russian AF in the city of Poti during the 2008 war. Scrapped
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|«Р-25»

style="text-align:center;" |251style="text-align:center;" |28 February 1983Blt, Cspstyle="text-align:center;" |2014Since 30 May 2003 - Borovsk («Боровск»)
Decommissioned. In summer of 2017 scrapped at the Dagdisel factory in Kaspiysk
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|«Р-30»

style="text-align:center;" |252style="text-align:center;" |30 December 1983Blt, Cspstyle="text-align:center;" |2014Since 13 May 2005 - Budyonnovsk («Будённовск»)
Decommissioned. In summer of 2017 scrapped at the Dagdisel factory in Kaspiysk

Green — Preserved as a museum

Yellow — active in Ukrainian Navy

Red — decommissioned

Black — sunk

See also

References

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=Bibliography=

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  • {{cite book |last1=Galeotti |first1=Mark |title=Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 |date=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-5097-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeaeEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}
  • {{cite book |editor-last= Gardiner|editor-first= Robert |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995|year= 1995|publisher= Conway Maritime|location= London|isbn= 0851776051|oclc= 34284130}} Also published as {{cite book |last= Gardiner|first= Robert|author2=Chumbley, Stephen |author3=Budzbon, Przemysław|title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995|year= 1995|publisher= Naval Institute Press|location= Annapolis, MD|isbn= 1557501327|oclc= 34267261}}

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071026084043/http://www.warships.ru/Russia/Fighting_Ships/Missile_Boats/206MR.htm Project 206MR Vikhr missile boats]{{in lang|ru}}
  • [http://russianships.info/eng/warfareboats/project_206mr.htm Complete Ship List of all Matka class missile boats]

{{Soviet and Russian ships after 1945}}

Category:Missile boat classes

Category:Hydrofoils

Category:Missile boats of the Soviet Navy

Category:Missile boats of the Russian Navy

Category:Missile boats of the Ukrainian Navy

Category:Missile boats of the Georgian Navy