La Combattante IIa-class fast attack craft


The La Combattante II type missile boats are two classes of fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy.
The first group of four were ordered by Greece in September 1972 from France. The vessels had no class name but are referred to by type.
A second group of six were purchased in the 1990s from Germany, comprising six Type 148 that were being decommissioned.
The class was renamed La Combattante IIa, as with the French-made ships.
All the ships were under mid-life updates in 1980s. Two vessels in the class, P-74 and P-75, were fitted with RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a new ESM was fitted after transfer.

Ship list

La Combattante II

Built by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie of Cherbourg to the standard La Combattante II design, though having a smaller gun armament forward.
Pennant
number		NameBuilderLaunchedRe-namedStatus
P56NavsithoiCMN1972renamed Anninos stricken 2002
P55EvnikiCMN1972renamed Arliotis stricken 2002
P54KalypsoCMN1972renamed Batsis stricken 2004; sold to the Georgian Navy and renamed Dioskuria. Severely damaged in the 2008 South Ossetia war and afterwards scuttled by the Russians.
P53KymothoiCMN1972renamed Konidis stricken 2003

La Combattante IIa

Pennant
number		NameFormer nameCommissioned
by Germany		Commissioned
by Greece		Status
P 72Ypoploiarchos Votsisex-Iltis8 January 197328 April 1995Decommissioned in 2025
P 73Antiploiarchos Pezopoulosex-Storch17 July 19741 February 1994Decommissioned in 2025
P 74Plotarchis Vlachavasex-Marder14 June 197316 February 1995Decommissioned in 2011
P 75Plotarchis Maridakisex-Häher12 June 197428 April 1994Decommissioned in 2025
P 76Ypoploiarchos Tournasex-Leopard21 August 197328 September 2000Decommissioned in 2011
P 77Plotarchis Sakipisex-Jaguar21 August 197328 September 2000Decommissioned in 2011