- featuring -
- Light Forces -
Missile-/Torpedo-/Gun Boats/Patrol Craft
Peru
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"PR-72P" class
"Larrea" P 25, - "Sanches Carrion"
P 26 and "Herrera" P 24 in Callao.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
"PR-72P" Class
(Fast Attack Craft - Missile)
Built: 6 units, - built in France
and launched 1978 - 1979.
Displacement: 560 tons full
load
Length: 64 meters
Beam: 8,4 meters
Draught: 2,6 meters
Missiles: 4 Pcs. Exocet in
single launchers.
Armament: 1 Pc. 76 mm gun,
- 2 Pcs. 40 mm guns (Twin), - 2 Pcs. 20 mm. guns.
Propulsion: 4 Diesels, 22.000
shp., 4 shafts, - 34 knots.
Crew: 36
"Velarde" P 21
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"Velarde" P 21
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"Velarde" P 21
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"Santillana" P 22
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"De Los Heros" P 23
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen
"De Los Heros" P 23
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen
"Herrera" P 24
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"Herrera" P 24
Fast Attack Craft - Missile,
- Peru
Photographed at Callao, - Peru.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
"Larrea" P 25, - "Sanchez Carrion"
P 26 and "Herrera" P 24 in Callao
- 76 mm guns and Exocet
launchers -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
"Sanchez Carrion" P 26 and
"Herrera" P 24.
- another view of the aft 76
mm guns and Exocet launchers -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
Take note of the various patrol
boat types in the background.
From left to right can following
be identified:
The forward section of Coast
Guard Patrol craft "Rio Ocona" PC 245, - Displacement, full load 300 tons,
- Loa. 50 m.
The stern just visible of "Rio
Chicama" PC 224, - Vosper type Patrol craft, - Displ. full load 130 tons,
- Loa. 33,5 m.
Then comes two ex. US large
patrol craft of the "PGM 71" type, - "Rio Sama" PC 222, and "Rio Chira"
PC 223.
Finally, - In full side view,
- large patrol craft "Rio Pativilca" PC 225, another Vosper built unit
like "Rio Chicama"
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