Greek Naval Hovercraft

Greek Naval Hovercraft


Athens, Greece (GR)
looks like the southernmost one was caught in motion pulling in.

Russian built, 57 m long for 550 tons of tonnage, hovercraft has the maximum speed of 60 knots in sea and approximately 60 km/h on earth, and is equipped with four stabilized antiaircraft missile launcher weapon systems Igla 1M (capable to hit a target running in a speed up to 360 m/s, an altitude including between 10 and 3,500m and a diagonal distance between 500 and 5,000 m) two weapon systems AK 630 of 30 mm (equipped with six rotary barrels model AO-18 of 5,000 turns a minute and the shooting up to 5,200 m) and two missile launcher MS-227 (projected specially for this equipment and characterized with a shooting distance between 200 and 10,000 m). "Apart from the tasks of coast vigilance - has declared an officer of the Greek Ministry to Vladimir Kitov of the "The Russia Journal" - it is intention of the Defense to employ hovercrafts also to check the increasing piracy in the Aegean sea by Albanians giving damages to the mercantile ships.
looks like the southernmost one was caught in motion pulling in.

Russian built, 57 m long for 550 tons of tonnage, hovercraft has the maximum speed of 60 knots in sea and approximately 60 km/h on earth, and is equipped with four stabilized antiaircraft missile launcher weapon systems Igla 1M (capable to hit a target running in a speed up to 360 m/s, an altitude including between 10 and 3,500m and a diagonal distance between 500 and 5,000 m) two weapon systems AK 630 of 30 mm (equipped with six rotary barrels model AO-18 of 5,000 turns a minute and the shooting up to 5,200 m) and two missile launcher MS-227 (projected specially for this equipment and characterized with a shooting distance between 200 and 10,000 m). "Apart from the tasks of coast vigilance - has declared an officer of the Greek Ministry to Vladimir Kitov of the "The Russia Journal" - it is intention of the Defense to employ hovercrafts also to check the increasing piracy in the Aegean sea by Albanians giving damages to the mercantile ships.
View in Google Earth Military - Bases, Hovercraft, Military - Navy and Coast Guard
Links: www.analisidifesa.it
By: kjfitz

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@ 2006-04-28 13:07:25
Some of the hovercraft are still there but some are ghosts after the April 2006 google database update.

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