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ORP Grom

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Fast Attack Craft Missile (Fast Patrol Boats), "Orkan" class (NATO: Sassnitz); The hulls have been built in VEB Peenewerft, Wolgast (former DDR); equipped in Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk.

Dimensions:

* Length: 48,9 meters
* Beam: 8,65 meters
* Draught: 2,15 meters

Armament:

* RBS Mk 2 missiles;
* 1 gun 76,2 mm;
* 1 30 mm;
* 1 SAM launcher.

Propulsion: 3 compression-ignition engines M 520 class; 3 shafts; speed: 36 knots.

ORP Grom is an Orkan-class fast attack craft. It is the sister ship of Orkan and Piorun.
The ship was the result of a construction project undertaken by the German Democratic Republic for its navy, named Project 660 ("Sassnitz class" in NATO code). After the unification of Germany the unfinished hulls were bought by the Polish Navy from VEB Peenewerft shipyard in Wolgast and completed in Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk.
After its completion in 1995 the ship was incorporated into the 31st Rocket Warships Squadron, 3rd Ship Flotilla.
Name: ORP Grom
Namesake: ORP Grom, from the Polish word for thunderclap
Laid down: 1989
Launched: 1994
Completed: 1994
Commissioned: 1995
Displacement: 369 tonnes
Length: 48.9 m (160 ft 5 in)
Beam: 8.65 m (28 ft 5 in)
Draft: 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
3 x M520 diesel engines
3 shafts, 3,970 kilowatts (5,320 hp)
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: 1,620 nautical miles (3,000 km; 1,860 mi)
Complement: 33
Armament:
 

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