Two high-speed patrol boats of the Russian Navy Raptor have sunk in the Black Sea, according to Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy.
Zaluzhnyy said: “Today, two Russian Raptor-class ships sank at dawn this morning near the island of Zmіiny.
In footage taken by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the force claims to have blown up two boats of project 03160 (codename “Raptor”) near Ukraine’s Zmiinyi Island, or Snake Island, in the western Black Sea. .
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Project 03160 “Raptor” patrol boat was developed by the design department of the Leningrad Pella Shipyard Joint Stock Company under the guidance of the Russian Navy. The ships are designed to patrol and transfer troops in coastal areas of seas, straits and estuaries during the day and at night at a maximum distance of up to 100 miles from base.
Raptor-class boats can also be used to promptly transport up to 20 Marines, intercept and detain small targets, and conduct search and rescue operations in the areas they patrol.
The Project 03160 patrol boat is armored and equipped with a remote-controlled weapons station with a 14.5mm machine gun and two 7.62mm Pecheneg machine guns on a rack. The boat is 16.9 m long, 4.1 m wide and has a crew of 3. It can develop speeds up to 50 knots.
