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G-6 motor torpedo boat (1939)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Г-6 [G-6]

TsAGI, Moscow: G-6

6/1939: G-6

none

none

late 1940s: G-6



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t86
Length, m34.9 pp 36.5 max
Breadth, m6.60
Draught, m1.90
No of shafts2
Machinery8 GAM-34BPF petrol engines
Power, h. p.7760
Max speed, kts50
Fuel, tpetrol 8.9
Endurance, nm(kts)435(28)
Armament1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 12.7/79, 1 x 4 - 7.6/94, 3 - 533 TT (stern) or 3 mines
Complement30


Standard scale images


<i>G-6</i> 1939
G-6 1939


Project history

Designed since 1931 by TsAGI as fast seaworthy MTB leader (in analogy to destroyer leaders). Dural stepped hull. Under the project armament should include 1 45mm gun, 3 12.7mm and 1 7.62mm MGs, 3 533mm torpedo chutes and 1 triple trainable TT, but latter because of revealed lacks was removed. On trials the boat reached 55.3kts at 55t displacement. This project was never built in series, lead boat 20.6.1939 was commissioned as G-6, and used as auxiliary.

Modernizations 8.

1942: - 1 x 1 - 45/43, 1 x 4 - 7.6/94, 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 37/63 70K

Naval service

No significant events.