PLAN overseas deployment and excercises a list

Yesterday Russian Ministry of Defence revealed the specific ships involved in the bilateral naval exercise called Maritime Cooperation 2015. The drills, whose active phase will take place in the Mediterranean Sea on May 17-21, will involve nine surface vessels of different classes of the Russian and Chinese navies.

Russian Black Sea Fleet:

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    Flagship of the Black Sea Fleet
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  • Ladny (801)
• Project 775 Large Landing Ship
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  • Aleksandr Otrakovsky (031)
• Project 775 Large Landing Ship
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  • Aleksandr Shabalin (110)
• Project 1239 hoverborne guided-missile corvette (Bora):
  • Samum (616)
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  tug (possibly Kommuna-class):
  • One unit (Kommuna?)

PLAN 19th Escort Task Group/Task Group 547:

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  • Linyi (547)
  • Weifang (550)
• Type 903 replenishment tanker (Qiandaohu):
  • Weishanhu (887)

Lingyi, Weifang and the Samum Russian missile hovercraft have already set course for the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, after which they will arrive first at the assigned area of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Tyloe said:

• Project 1239 hoverborne guided-missile corvette (Bora):
  • Samum (616)

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Thanks for that complete list. It is pretty much as we suspected in terms of the PLAN vessels.

Interesting to note the Bora Class guided-missile hoverborne craft. Two were built.

You do not see them too much.. They are pretty unique vessels and heavily armed for vessels of 1,050 tons.

2 x 4 Moskit anti-surface missile launchers
1 x 20 Osa anti-air missile launcher
16 x Igla man portable anti-air missiles
1 x 76mm gun
2 x AK-630 30mm CIWS
2 x 14.7 mm Machine Guns
1 x DP-64 grenade launcher

Interesting to note the Bora Class guided-missile hovercraft. Only one was built.

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Weren't there two Boras originally built for the Black Sea Fleet? RFS Bora (615) and RFS Samum (616). I think both are still in commission.

Bora class is actually a Surface Effect Ship, also known as hoverborne craft. It is not a hovercraft.

lcloo said:

Bora class is actually a Surface Effect Ship, also known as hoverborne craft. It is not a hovercraft.

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Thanks for that distinction. I will correct my post using that term.

Tyloe said:

Weren't there two Boras originally built for the Black Sea Fleet? RFS Bora (615) and RFS Samum (616). I think both are still in commission

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You are correct, two were built. I will correct accordingly.

lcloo said:

Bora class is actually a Surface Effect Ship, also known as hoverborne craft. It is not a hovercraft.

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Traditionally the surface effect ship is considered to be a kind of hovercraft. The expression "hoverborne craft" is superfluous.
The wiki description is correct. See:

Well, I think it can be considered as a kind of hovercraft, but the fact is that Surface Effect Ship has two solid side walls that immersed in water, no air skirts and can not travel on land or any solid ground should be classified as a different class from the more conventional hovercrafts.

Ships from PLAN 19th escort task group and Russia's Black Sea fleet arrived in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday and the active phase of the exercise will continue until Thursday. Moskva will also accommodate the field headquarters of the command for all the participating ships during the exercise.

OT

lcloo said:

Well, I think it can be considered as a kind of hovercraft, but the fact is that Surface Effect Ship has two solid side walls that immersed in water, no air skirts and can not travel on land or any solid ground should be classified as a different class from the more conventional hovercrafts.

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The main difference is that the propellers are in the water and not the air as in nearly all full skirted hovercrafts. Still since they first appeared they were called side wall hovercrafts until the Pentagon invented the term Surface Effect Ship.
Small side wall hovercrafts were developed in USSR for passenger transport on small rivers were hydrofoils were not sufficiently manoevrable.

some decent footage of the exercise