Mission

Project 1239 Bora guided missile air cushion ship is designed to destroy enemy surface ships, fast attack craft, and transports in all water areas of closed sea theatres of operation and in short-range zone of open seas, when operating autonomously or as a flagship of uniform/mixed naval groups.

Features

Thanks to its well-balanced sensor/armament mix and high navigability, Bora is capable of efficiently detecting and engaging surface and air targets with missiles and artillery fire at their maximum effective range without limitations in high sea (Sea States up to 5 inclusively) and adverse ECM conditions. The onboard active and passive ECM assets efficiently protect the ship from enemy missile systems targeting.

The ship can be deployed in any battle group due to a wide range of speeds provided by transformable hydrodynamic platform and main machinery. The ship’s high reliability and maintainability, catamaran hull made of corrosion-resistant aluminum- magnesium alloys, skirt, and flank-speed propulsion plants have been proven in longterm operations.

Main propulsion plant

Bora air cushion ship is powered by a combined CODOG-CODAG diesel/gas turbine plant comprising two M511A reduction gear diesel units, two M10D1 flank speed gas turbines, and two M527OM3 auxiliary diesel motors to drive superchargers inflating the skirt. The onboard electric power system incorporates four 200kW diesel generators and four 1EKPV 15/150 electric compressors.

Armament & Equipment

attack missile systems 

one/two modules of Kashtan-M air defence gun/missile system

16 Igla MANPADS

100mm AK-190E single-barrel versatile gun

two 14.5mm naval machine gun mounts

DP-64 anti-saboteur grenade launcher

four KT-216 launchers of PK-10 close-range decoy system

Electronic equipment

Monolit-K/Monument-E target detection and designation radar system

Gorizont-25 integrated navigation system

Pozitiv-ME1 air/surface target acquisition radar

5P-10E fire control radar

Combat information management system

Sigma-E system

Sonar equipment

Anapa-ME1 sonar

Navigation equipment

Ladoga-ME inertial navigation and stabilisation system, or Pastilshchik-D gyroazimuth/ horizon compass

Gyuis GKU-5 gyroscope course detector

Magnit (KF-1) magnetic compass, or DS-83 and 69-M2 magnetic compasses

satellite navigation system equipment

NaviSailor-2400 ECDIS electronic chart display system

LI2-1/RDL-3-AP100-E electromagnetic log

NEL-20K, LEM2-1 navigation echosounder