Komar-class missile boat


The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as the Komar class, its NATO reporting name, meaning "mosquito", is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another ship with anti-ship missiles in 1967.

Export ships

  • - 6 boats 1967
  • - 8 boats plus about 40 built under licence. The Chinese also built a steel-hulled derivative as the Type 024 class missile boat
  • - 18 boats
  • - 7 boats, retired in the early 1990s; The Egyptian Navy built 6 derivative boats equipped with western weapons and electronics in the early 1980s as the
  • - 12 boats
  • - 3 boats
  • - 6 boats donated between 1969 and 1974, all retired between 1998 and 2002.
  • - 10 boats
  • - 9 boats
  • - 4 boats

Combat use