Nanjiao 83-class dispatch boat

Class overview
Name	Nanjiao 83 class dispatch boat
Operators	People's Liberation Army Navy
General characteristics
Electronic warfare & decoys	None
Armament	None

Nanjiao 83 class dispatch boat is a class of little known naval auxiliary ship currently in service with the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).^[1] The name of this class is after the first unit commissioned, with the exact type still remains unknown, and only a single unit of this class have been confirmed in active service as of mid-2010s.^[1]

Nanjiao 83 class series ships in PLAN service are designated by a combination of two Chinese characters followed by three-digit number. The second Chinese character is Jiao (交), short for Jiao-Tong-Ting (交通艇), meaning dispatch boat (ferry) in Chinese, because these ships are classified as dispatch boats. The first Chinese character denotes which fleet the ship is service with, with East (Dong, 东) for East Sea Fleet, North (Bei, 北) for North Sea Fleet, and South (Nan, 南) for South Sea Fleet. However, the pennant numbers may have changed due to the change of Chinese naval ships naming convention.

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