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.
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- 6 boats 1967 - 8 boats (1961) 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 (1962–67), 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 (1961–65) - 3 boats (1972) - 6 boats donated between 1969 and 1974, all retired between 1998 and 2002. - 10 boats - 9 boats - 4 boats
Combat use 1967 October 21 - Egyptian Navy Komar-class missile boats sank Israeli destroyer in the first combat use of P-15 Termit anti-ship missiles. This was the first time a ship had sunk another ship using guided missiles. 7 October 1973 - Two Syrian Navy Komar-class missile boats along with an Osa I-class missile boat, a K-123 torpedo boat and a T43-class minesweeper fought unsuccessfully against four Israeli Navy s and one in the Battle of Latakia. Other Syrian missile boats fired missiles from within the harbor that mistakenly or due to malfunction hit civilian craft in the harbour. 1974 January 19 - 4 People's Liberation Army Navy Komar-class joined Battle of the Paracel Islands in Vietnam War
See also List of ships of the Soviet Navy List of ships of Russia by project number
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External links Complete Ship List of all Komar class missile boats