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S-Boats in the Polish Navy 1957 - today
S-Boats Tarantul-Class (Project 1241 RÄ)
Starting 1992 the Polish Navy got three Small Missile Ships Project 1241 RÄ as enhancement of the strength and modernization of the Missile Forces from Soviet production lines with the NATO codename TARANTUL. These boats were able to fire missiles P 21 (Radar-Search-Head) and P 22 (IR-Search-Head).
The Boats got the Hull-numbers and names as folows:
| Hull-No. | Name | Commissioned | Decommissioned |
| 435 | ORP Hutnik | 31.03.1984 | 31.05.2005 |
| 436 | ORP Gomik | ? | 2005? |
| 437 | ORP Stoczniowiec | ? | 2005? |
Tarantul, here Boat 772 of the DDR Volksmarine - Picture: Dieter Flohr
Picture from Mehl/Schäfer: Die andere deutsche Marine
Technical Data
| Shipyard | Petrovsky Shipyard, Rybinsk, UdSSR |
| Units built | 3 for Poland |
| from/to | 1984 - 1986 |
| In Service from/to | 1984 - 1990 |
| Displacement | 420 t |
| Length | 56,1 m |
| Beam | 11,3 m |
| Draught | 3,9 m |
| Propulsion | 2 Battle- and 2 Marchturbines 12000 rsp. 4000 PS each |
| Shafts/Screws | 2/2 |
| Speed | 45 kn |
| Complement | 38 |
| Armament | 2 x Starters for each 2 missiles P 20 and P 21 |
| 1 x 4quadruble starter feor STRELA M AA-missiles | |
| 1 x 76 mm AK 176 | |
| 2 x 6barreled 30 mm Gatling-Guns AK 630 | |
| Sensors | Surfacesearchradar PLANK SHAVE |
| Navigation SPIN THROUGH | |
| Firecontrol BASS TILT |