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BPS-500-class missile boat

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Class overview
NameBPS-500
Operators Vietnam People's Navy
Completed1
Active1
General characteristics
TypeMissile boat
Displacement520 tonnes
Length62 m (203 ft)
Beam11m
Speed30.0 knots (55.6 km/h; 34.5 mph)
Complement50
Sensors and
processing systems
Pozitiv ME multimode radar
Armament

BPS-500 is a missile boat in service with the Vietnam People's Navy. It was the only missile boat built under the project KBO 2000 where Vietnam started to domestically build this class in the late 1990s. KBO 2000 is a joint project between the Ukrainian State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center and Vietnam in order to build missile boats in Vietnam with assistance from Russia. Russia which is represented by Severnoye Project Design Bureau (SPKB) is involved in the design scheme of missile boats of the BPS-500 class as required by the Vietnam Navy.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ [1] BPS-500
  2. ^ Minnick, Wendell (8 August 2017). "Vietnam Pushes Modernization as China Challenge Grows".