The ''Sin Hung''-class torpedo boat is a class of
torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of se ...
s in service with the
Korean People's Navy
The Korean People's Army Naval Force (KPANF; Korean: 조선인민군 해군; Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍 海軍; ''Chosŏn-inmingun Haegun''; ) or the Korean People's Navy (KPN), is the naval service branch of the Korean People's Army, which contain ...
.
The class is based on the same
hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
as the , and .
Construction
The ''Sin Hung''-class torpedo boats stopped being produced in 1983. The Korean People's Navy has at least 120 of them.
Specifications
The ''Sin Hung'' class are long, with a
beam
Beam may refer to:
Streams of particles or energy
*Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
**Laser beam
*Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draught of . They
displace 25 t full load.
[Baker 1998, p. 465.] Two
diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...
s rated at each propel the boats, giving a speed of .
[Baker 1998, pp. 465–466.][Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 231.] The normal armament consists of two
torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.
There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboa ...
s, although some ships carry torpedo tubes instead, with a gun armament of two twin machine guns.
Service history
During a
naval drill off
Nampo
Nampo (North Korean official spelling: Nampho; ), also spelled Namp'o, is the second largest city by population and an important seaport in North Korea, which lies on the northern shore of the Taedong River, 15 km east of the river's mouth. ...
by the Korean People's Navy on October 5, 2016, five ''Sin Hung''-class torpedo boats were part of the 80 some training fleet.
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Torpedo boats of North Korea
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