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S-Boats in the Polish Navy 1957 - today
S-Boats Orkan-Class (Project 151, Sassnitz)
Three boats of type BALCOM 10 (GDR/SU Project 151, Sassnitz) were built at Peene-Shipyerd, Wolgast, after the German reunification. The boats were delivered partly equipped and retrofitted to meet western standeards.
The boats got the hull-numbers and names as follows:
| Hull-No. | Name | Commissioned | Decommissioned |
| 421 | ORP Orkan | 1992 | - |
| 436 | ORP Piorun | 1994 | - |
| 437 | ORP Grom | 1995 | - |
ORP Orkan (421)
Picture from Mehl/Schäfer: Die andere deutsche Marine
Technical Data
| Shipyard | Peenewerft |
| Units built | 3 |
| from/to | 1989 until 1990 |
| In Service | 1990 |
| Displacement | 347 ts |
| Length | 48,9 m |
| Beam | 8,6 m |
| Draught | 2,2 m |
| Propulsion | 3 x 52 Zyl. Stern-Reihen-Motoren M-520 je 5.400 PS |
| Shafts/Screws | 3 x 3 |
| Speed | 36 kts |
| Complement | 33 |
| Armament | 4 x Surface/surface Missiles RBS 15 |
| 1 x 76 mm AK-176 | |
| 1 x sixfold Gatling gun AK 630 | |
| FASTA-4 starters for STRELA M |
Specials
Instead of the main armament envisaged for Balcom 10, two Soviet missile-start-containers FG 1520 each for four surface-to--suface missiles of type SS-N-25 Switschblade, the boats of Orkan-class were equipped with four starters for the Swedish surface-to-surface missile RBS 15 each.
The Orkan-boats are still in service with the Polish Navy.