Scale model of the coastal patrol boat for the Croatian Coast Guard. (Picture source Brodosplit Shipyard)
Navy Recognition Reports that first steel has been cut for a new class of patrol boat for Croatian Coast Guard.
The Croatian-made patrol boat will have a length of 43,16 meters (142 feet) and a wide of 8 meters. She will be armed with one 30mm automatic cannon mounted at the front deck and two 12.7mm heavy machine gun, as well as four portable anti-aircraft missiles.
This makes it only slightly smaller than the 154 foot Webber class WPCs. Closer still to the Damen Stan 4207 patrol design (used by at least eleven nations), like the Canadian Coast Guard Hero class.
Two 2525 kW engines would provide 6772HP. That is well under the 11,600 HP of the Webber class, but it should still be good for 24 to 25 knots rather than the 15 knots the report seems to indicate, in apparent confusion with range specification (“…maximum speed of 15 knots with a maximum cruising range of 1,000 nautical miles.”)
Range is notably less than that of the Webber class (2,500 nmi), but Croatia has an EEZ of only 17,211 nautical miles square.
It is unusual in having a CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) protection system).
Map: Adriatic Sea. Created by Norman Einstein, May 20, 2005.