Komar Class Missile Boat
The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as "Komar" (meaning mosquito), is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another ship with anti-ship missiles in 1967.
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