Second Project 22100 Okean-class patrol craft launched for Russian Coast Guard.

A launch ceremony was held at the Gorky shipyard in Zelenodolsk to float the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky second serial coast guard ship of project 22100, the shipyard said.

On June 1, 2018, JSC Zelenodolsky Plant named after AM Gorky in Zelenodolsk launched the second patrol craft for the Coast Guard of the Federal Security Service of Russia.

The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was laid on June 15, 2015. The Polyarnaya Zvezda lead ship is operational in the Russian Border Service in the Western Arctic region. The shipyard is currently building the third serial ship of project 22100 which was laid on April 27, 2018.

The Ocean-class ships of project 22100 can navigate in 80-cm thick ice. They are armed with 76.2mm automatic artillery gun AK-176M and two 14.5mm large-caliber machineguns. The ship has a helipad for Ka-27 rotorcraft and its modifications and a hangar. The device to float and lift inspection boats on the run is in the stern. The crew is 44 men.

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