Ukrainian Navy will soon be replenished with a new type of amphibious armored. According to the Ukrainian Military Pages, completed factory testing air assault boats Project 58503 “Centaur-LK”.
According to Ukrainian military portal, shipyard “Forge on Rybatsky” (to 2017 of the year – “Lenin smithy”) completed factory tests of two newest assault boats “Centaur-LK” – L450 “Stanislav” and L451 “Malin” and is ready to transfer them to the state. The third boat of this type, laid down in February of this year, will be completed with improvements, obtained during the tests of previous.
Landing assault boats of the "Centaur" type, which were given the names "Stanislav" and "Malin", actually ready for state tests. Factory sea trials are fully completed
– said the representative of the plant Leonid Babak.
Landing assault boat “centaurs” designed for landing a platoon of marines with standard small arms, seats 32 man. Crew 5 human. Reservation of the wheelhouse, engine compartment and troop compartment bulletproof. Equipped with two water cannons made in New Zealand. Maximum speed up to 50 knots, maximum cruising range 11 sites – 500 miles. autonomy 5 day. total displacement – 47 tonnes. weaponry: 2 combat module, consisting of a machine gun (7,62 or 12,7 mm) and automatic grenade launcher (30 or 40 mm NATO standard); 2 MLRS launchers with S-8 unguided rockets; sea mines.
Compared with “centaur”, new “Centaur-LK” has a large capacity: the troop compartment was increased from 32 to 36 places.
Previously Ukrainian boats “Centaur-LK” criticized the head of the Ukrainian military center Taras Chmut. According to him, widely advertised newest Ukrainian assault boat of the project “centaurs” actually has a lot of problems.. He also drew attention to the very low quality of workmanship..
