Original Operators
- Soviet Union - 1 (to Bulgaria in 1990), The Delfin was originally used for training foreign crews in the Black Sea, before being sold to the Bulgarian Navy, currently in service as the Смели" ("Brave").
- Algeria - 3, in service, being upgraded with new electronics, ASW torpedo tubes and 8 x Kh-35 Uran/SS-N-25 Switchblade anti-ship missilles
- Cuba - 3, 2 derelict or scrapped and 1 sunk as a reef.
- East Germany - 3, scrapped. (Rostock, Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR, Halle)
- Egypt - 1 (ex Yugoslavian).
- Libya - 1 (formerly 2), 4 x 406mm torpedo tubes, status unknown, damaged by bombing May 19/20 and on August 9 2011. (Al Ghardabia). The remaining ship, Al Hani captured by NTC in Benghazi.
- Libyan People's Army - 1, 4 x 406mm torpedo tubes (Al Hani, captured from Libyan Navy)
- Yugoslavia - 2, 4 x 324mm torpedo tubes, 1 sold to Egypt, 1 scrapped.
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