Central design Bureau (CDB) for hydrofoil named after R. E. Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod has developed for law enforcement agencies landing craft on the hovercraft, capable of speeds of 120 km per hour, said the RNS at the facility.
“This is the most high-speed ships for landing and other tasks at sea. They have already adopted. During testing reached a speed of 120 km per hour. The challenge now is to work at the speed of 130 km per hour,” — said the Agency interlocutor.
He said that among the customers of the boats on the hovercraft, the Customs service, the FSB border service, the Navy.
“Enormous interest in our high-speed boats shown by the Chinese, Greeks, and Arab countries,” said a company representative.
The basis of the principle of motion of the vessel on the cavity is the technology to create under the bottom of the vessel, an artificial air gap, which insulates most of the body from contact with the water surface. This significantly reduces the resistance and provides high speed.
According to the press, landing craft of project 21820 (code “Dugong”, NATO — Dyugon/Ataman Platov) is a series of new Russian landing craft air cavity.
Boats designed for high-speed transfer by sea and landing on unequipped coast of human contingents, wheeled and tracked vehicles.
Draft landing craft of the project 21820 under the code “Dugong” was developed in TSKB on SPK of a name of R. E. Alekseeva. The predecessor of the “Dugong”, still having no world analogues, — speed landing craft project 11770 “Serna”, which was also designed in the CDB for hydrofoil.
June 23, 2011 between the Ministry of defense of Russia and the Yaroslavl GCC signed a contract for the production of a series of boats St. 21820.
