Georgia strengthens the protection of maritime borders of the country, said head MIA Border Police of Georgia Temuri Kekelidze. To this end, the United States Coast Guard pass two patrol boats of the type Island. Also in the border police said, that started the modernization of the Coast Guard Fleet, He writes “Sight”.
It should be noted, Georgia has no navy, and the border sea service is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the war 08.08.08 almost all the naval forces of Georgia were defeated Russia and Tbilisi has lost almost all boats.
The biggest help Georgia to rebuild its maritime border component of the United States has. That Washington has created an operational center of the Coast Guard in Supsa and financed the installation of four radar station in the Georgian Black Sea coast .and on the US money was created cutter operations docked in Batumi.
Class patrol boats Island (also known as 110 ft) They were built for the US shipyard Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport Coast Guard (Louisiana) from 1985 by 1992 years in the amount of 49 units. Boats have a steel body and aluminum superstructure, total displacement 168 m and length 110 feet (34 m). Two-shaft diesel power plant capacity 6200 HP. It provides a full speed of up to 29,5 with. Autonomy five days. Crew 16 human (including two officers). Boat equipped with radar AN / SPS-73 and deflatable motorboat, armament consists of a tank 25 mm automatic gun mount Mk 38 Mod 0 Bushmaster and two 12.7-mm machine guns M2NV (transferred to Georgia boats weapons, apparently, dismantled). Withdrawn from the US Coast Guard in the composition 2014 year.
Earlier, the US had already passed the Georgian patrol boats from the presence of the US Coast Guard – 60-tonne 25-meter boats of the type Point built in the early 1960s.
