With a 42km coastline this is big news
http://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/foto-...m-morju/235199
to translate:
Triglav, as it is her name, is a new patrol boat of the slovenian navy. Built by the russians for payment of the kliring debt. She will be used primarily as a patrol ship and is equiped for search and rescue, enviromental cleanup and off-shore fires
(thats what it says). She was criscened after our highest mountain and national symbol by the dean of my faculty herself. She is also the first russian made ship to serve in a NATO member navy.
some technical data:
lenght: 49m
width: 9,2m
draft: 2,2m
displacement: 375 000 kg
top speed: 27 knots
power plant: 3 MTU engines, each with 2880 kW power, 3 screws plus a bow-thruster
armament:
AK-306, 6-barrel, 30mm automatic cannon
2x 14,5mm machineguns
sturm ship to ship missile system
igla (needle) anti aircraft missile system
PK-10 anti missile decoys
crew:
4 officers and 20 sailors and pettyofficers
It's currently stil in russia, for training and shakedown and she will be officially handed to us by the end of october.
kilning debth would be repayed to slovenia with cold cash, enough free natural gas for a couple of years or a navy ship... and we chose the ship
and good thing that she has bowthruster or else we would have to sail to croatia to turn her arround
