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Navy Armament and Vehicles
21980E Project (Grachyonok)Special-Purpose Boat

 

PURPOSE AND MAIN TASKS

The boat is designed for fighting against the sabotage and terrorist resources and weapons at the base inner and outer anchorage areas. It is capable to perform peace-time and war-time tasks

SPECIFIC FEATURES

21980E project special-purpose boat has the following specific features:
  • it is equipped with the special-purpose search and inspection equipment ensuring efficient searching the underwater sabotage swimmers and potentially hazardous facilities at the seabed or in the water stratum;
  • it is equipped with DP-65 small-size remotely controlled anti-sabotage grenade launcher system ensuring efficient hitting the underwater sabotage swimmers;
  • it has on-board self-propelled remotely operated underwater vehicles allowing for inspection of potentially hazardous underwater facilities and performance of underwater operations;
  • the on-board decompression system allows for performance of the complete diving cycle and emergency escape operations.