Plotarchis Vlachavas at Rhodes Harbour
Class overview
BuildersCMN Lurssen
Operators Hellenic Navy
Succeeded byLa Combattante III class
Built1973–1974
In commission1973–present
Completed6
General characteristics
TypeFast attack craft
Displacement
  • 234 tons (standard)
  • 265 tons (full load)
Length47 m (154 ft)
Beam8 m (26 ft)
Draught2.1 m (7 ft)
Installed power
  • 4 × MTU MD 16V 538 TB90
  • 12,000 hp (8,900 kW) (combined)
PropulsionFour shafts
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (maximum)
Range
  • 570 nautical miles (1,060 km; 660 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
  • 1,600 nautical miles (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement30 (4 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Thomson-CSF Triton; G-band
  • Thomson-CSF Castor; I/J-band
  • CSEE Panda optical director
Electronic warfare
& decoys		Thomson-CSF DR 2000S
Armament

The La Combattante II type missile boats are two classes of fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy. The first group of four were ordered by Greece in September 1972 from France.[1] The vessels had no class name but are referred to by type. A second group of six were purchased in the 1990s from Germany, comprising six Type 148 Tiger-class fast attack craft that were being decommissioned.[2] The class was renamed La Combattante IIa, as with the French-made ships. All the ships were under mid-life updates in 1980s. Two vessels in the class, P-74 and P-75, were fitted with RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a new ESM was fitted after transfer.

Ship list

La Combattante II

Built by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie of Cherbourg to the standard La Combattante II design, though having a smaller gun armament (4x35mmm Oerlikon cannon instead of a single 76mm gun) forward.[1]

Pennant
number		 Name Builder Launched Re-named Status
P56NavsithoiCMN1972renamed Anninos (P14)stricken 2002
P55EvnikiCMN1972renamed Arliotis (P15)stricken 2002
P54KalypsoCMN1972renamed Batsis (P17)stricken 2004; sold to the Georgian Navy and renamed Dioskuria. Severely damaged in the 2008 South Ossetia war and afterwards scuttled by the Russians.[3]
P53KymothoiCMN1972renamed Konidis (P16)stricken 2003

La Combattante IIa

(ex- German Type 148 Tiger-class fast attack craft)

Pennant
number		 Name Former name Commissioned
by Germany		 Commissioned
by Greece		 Status
P 72Ypoploiarchos Votsisex-Iltis8 January 197328 April 1995In service (2018)
P 73Antiploiarchos Pezopoulosex-Storch17 July 19741 February 1994In service (2018)
P 74Plotarchis Vlachavasex-Marder14 June 197316 February 1995Decommissioned in 2011[4]
P 75Plotarchis Maridakisex-Häher12 June 197428 April 1994In service (2018)
P 76Ypoploiarchos Tournasex-Leopard21 August 197328 September 2000Decommissioned in 2011
P 77Plotarchis Sakipisex-Jaguar21 August 197328 September 2000Decommissioned in 2011

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Conway p.72
  2. ↑ Janes p.218
  3. ↑ "Picture of MFAC Dioskuria in Poti with damage behind the bridge".
  4. ↑ Decommissioning of 4 ships of the Hellenic Navy on June 9, 2011

References

  • Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 (1995) Naval Institute Press|, Annapolis ISBN 1-55750-132-7
  • Sharp, Richard Jane's Fighting Ships (1991) Jane's Information Group ISBN 978 07106 096 01
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