Project 1239 small missile ships

The purpose of the small missile ships of project 1239 is:

1. Destruction of warships and enemy transports in coastal areas and the open sea.
2. Providing cover for high-speed landing formations and convoys in areas of formation, at the passage by the sea, as well as in areas of landing of naval assault forces from attacks by enemy ships and boats.
3. Conducting reconnaissance of enemy forces and maintaining patrol in the operating zone of friendly forces.
4. Fighting high-speed combat boats and enemy ships.

The project was created as the development of small missile ships of projects 1234 and 1234.1 , taking into account the experience of using RTOs in military service in the Mediterranean Sea . Work on the project began in 1975 at Almaz Central Design Bureau , the chief designers L.V. Yelsky, V.I. Korolkov. During the development work , a large-scale self-propelled 50-ton ship model was used. The lead serial ship, the Bora, was built at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard in 1987.

Catamaran pr.1239 has high seaworthiness , has a large deck and more comfortable conditions for using weapons and crew accommodation. During the creation of the ship, the experience of the TsMKB Almaz and the shipbuilding industry , acquired during the construction of amphibious assault landing ships of the Dzheyran , Zubr type and others, was widely used.

The ships of the project are the largest in their subclass in the practice of Russian and world shipbuilding, a high-speed combat ship using a hydrodynamic platform - a catamaran with aerostatic air unloading .

Power plant

The main power plant of the ship consists of two separate propulsion and propulsion systems of marching and full speed, capable of working separately and together. The ships of the project can move in three main modes (catamaran, KVP-1 and KVP-2), which provides an almost one hundred percent guarantee of the course in any situation. The possibility of the movement of ships with the propellers turned off is checked, so RTOs with only supercharger engines ^{[ what? ]} is able to move due to the outflow of air from the air cushion to the stern against the wind (7 m / s) at a speed of 3 knots.

The first hovercraft of Project 1239 was the Bora RVVP, which was launched in 1984 at the Zelenodolsky Shipyard and was handed over to the Navy in 1989 and, after trial operation, became part of the Black Sea Fleet's permanent readiness force in 1997. Shortly after the first-born in Zelenodolsk, in the late 1980s , two more ships were laid down. One was completed, and the third was cut into a slipway. In total, it was planned to build 16 combat units for the Navy.

• Bora hovercraft
• Project 1239 on the site of the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A. Gorky
• A site dedicated to the history of the creation, construction and service of Bora and Samum hovercraft