Gurza-class boat

Class overview
Name	Project 58150 (Gurza class)
Builders	Kuznya na Rybalskomu
Operators	Uzbekistan
Succeeded by	Project 58155 Gurza-M
Subclasses	Centaur-class fast assault craft
Built	2003-2005
In commission	2005-present
Building	2
Completed	2
Cancelled	0
Active	2
Lost	0
General characteristics
Displacement	36 tons
Length	20.3 m (66 ft 7 in)
Beam	4.86 m (15 ft 11 in)
Draught	0.86 m (2 ft 10 in)
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	450 miles (11 knots)
Complement	5

The Project 58150 Gurza (Levant viper) class is a series of small armored artillery boats built for the Uzbek Frontier Service. The whole class is produced by the Kuznya na Rybalskomu (Kyiv).

The original and modernized classes are developed by the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center (Mykolaiv).

There were only two ships of Project 58150 Gurza in 2004 for the Uzbek Border Guard and were financed by the United States.^{[citation needed]}

The modernized Project 58155 Gurza-M for the Ukrainian Navy started to be built at the Leninska Kuznya in October 2012.^[1] Originally it was planned to build nine such vessels by 2017. In December 2013 the Ministry of Defense withdrew its contract.

In summer of 2014 construction of Gurza-M was revived and the first two vessels were expected to be completed in fall of 2015.^[2] In December 2016 the first two Gurza-M officially joined the Ukrainian Navy.^[3] The new military contract is for 20 vessels that should be completed by 2020.^[3]

Operators[]

•  Uzbekistan: Uzbek Frontier Service (Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan)
  • 2 river gunboats (Dzhaikhun and Saikhun) commissioned in 2005 and stationed in Termez patrolling Amu Darya on the border with Afghanistan.

See also[]

• Gyurza-M class artillery boats

References[]

External links[]

• Gurza-M at the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center
• Gyurza at the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center