KRI Viper
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Name: | KRI Viper (820) |
Namesake: | Viperidae |
Commissioned: | 20 October 2006[1] |
Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
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Class & type: | Type PC-40 patrol boat |
Tonnage: | 100 tons |
Length: | 40 m (131 ft 3 in) |
Beam: | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Endurance: | 4 days |
Armament: |
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KRI Viper is a Type PC-40 patrol boat of the Indonesian Navy. It was commissioned on 20 October 2006 by Indonesian National Armed Forces Commander Marshal Djoko Suyanto.[2]
There are a total of 11 boats in the PC-40 class, KRI Viper, Piton, Weling, Matacora, Tedung Selar, Boiga, Krait, Tarihu, Alkura, Birang, and Mulga.[3]
Armaments
The vessel is equipped with Russian-made 25 mm and 12.7 mm calibre machine guns. It also has a combat information room, a communication room and an ammunition store room.
Notable deployments
Viper helped recover some of the bodies from the ferry MV Levina 1.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.acheh-eye.org/a-eye_news_files/a-eye_news_english/news_item.asp?NewsID=4463 Navy's Small Patrol Boats Effective Tools in Fighting Piracy: TNI Chief.[dead link]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 1 dead, 3 missing as gutted Indonesian ferry wreck sinks - Death toll from fire now 42 - Inquirer.net - Obtained March 27, 2007. Archived February 20, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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