La Combattante IIa-class fast attack craft

Not to be confused with the generic French-built La Combattante II type fast attack craft..

Plotarchis Vlachavas at Rhodes Harbour

Class overview
Builders| CMN Lurssen
Operators|  Hellenic Navy
Succeeded by| La Combattante III class
Built| 1973–1974
In commission| 1973–present
Completed| 6
General characteristics
Type| Fast attack craft
Displacement|

* 234 tons (standard)
* 265 tons (full load)

Length| 47 m (154 ft)
Beam| 8 m (26 ft)
Draught| 2.1 m (7 ft)
Installed power|

* 4 × MTU MD 16V 538 TB90
* 12,000 hp (8,900 kW) (combined)

Propulsion| Four shafts
Speed| 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (maximum)
Range|

* 570 nautical miles (1,060 km; 660 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
* 1,600 nautical miles (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Complement| 30 (4 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems|

* Thomson-CSF Triton; G-band
* Thomson-CSF Castor; I/J-band
* CSEE Panda optical director

Electronic warfare
& decoys| Thomson-CSF DR 2000S
Armament|

* 1 × Bofors 57 mm gun or 1 x OTO Melara 76 mm gun
* 1 × Bofors 40 mm/70 gun
* 4 × Exocet SSM (2x2) or 4 x Harpoon SSM (2x2)
* Minelaying capability

The La Combattante II type missile boats are two classes of fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy. The first group of four were ordered by Greece in September 1972 from France.[1] The vessels had no class name but are referred to by type. A second group of six were purchased in the 1990s from Germany, comprising six Type 148 Tiger-class fast attack craft that were being decommissioned.[2] The class was renamed La Combattante IIa, as with the French-made ships. All the ships were under mid-life updates in 1980s. Two vessels in the class, P-74 and P-75, were fitted with RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a new ESM was fitted after transfer.

## Ship list

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### La Combattante II

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Built by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie of Cherbourg to the standard La Combattante II design, though having a smaller gun armament (4x35mmm Oerlikon cannon instead of a single 76mm gun) forward.[1]

Pennant
number | Name  | Builder  | Launched  | Re-named  | Status

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P56 | Navsithoi | CMN | 1972 | renamed Anninos (P14) | stricken 2002
P55 | Evniki | CMN | 1972 | renamed Arliotis (P15) | stricken 2002
P54 | Kalypso | CMN | 1972 | renamed Batsis (P17) | stricken 2004; sold to the Georgian Navy and renamed Dioskuria. Severely damaged in the 2008 South Ossetia war and afterwards scuttled by the Russians.[3]
P53 | Kymothoi | CMN | 1972 | renamed Konidis (P16) | stricken 2003

### La Combattante IIa

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(ex- German Type 148 Tiger-class fast attack craft)

Pennant
number | Name  | Former name  | Commissioned
by Germany  | Commissioned
by Greece  | Status

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P 72 | Ypoploiarchos Votsis | ex-Iltis | 8 January 1973 | 28 April 1995 | In service (2018)
P 73 | Antiploiarchos Pezopoulos | ex-Storch | 17 July 1974 | 1 February 1994 | In service (2018)
P 74 | Plotarchis Vlachavas | ex-Marder | 14 June 1973 | 16 February 1995 | Decommissioned in 2011[4]
P 75 | Plotarchis Maridakis | ex-Häher | 12 June 1974 | 28 April 1994 | In service (2018)
P 76 | Ypoploiarchos Tournas | ex-Leopard | 21 August 1973 | 28 September 2000 | Decommissioned in 2011
P 77 | Plotarchis Sakipis | ex-Jaguar | 21 August 1973 | 28 September 2000 | Decommissioned in 2011

## See also

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* La Combattante-class fast attack craft
* Greek La Combattante III-class fast attack craft

## Notes

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1. ^ a b Conway p.72
2. ^ Janes p.218
3. ^ "Picture of MFAC Dioskuria in Poti with damage behind the bridge".
4. ^ "ΠΝ: Υποστολή σημαιών και Δομή Δυνάμεων". June 27, 2011.

## References

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* Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen  Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 (1995) Naval Institute Press|, Annapolis ISBN 1-55750-132-7
* Sharp, Richard Jane's Fighting Ships (1991) Jane's Information Group ISBN 978 07106 096 01

## External links

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* Ðïëåìéêü Íáõôéêü - ÔïñðéëïðõñáõëÜêáôïé ôýðïõ S-148
* Hellenic Navy official site

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Ship classes of the Hellenic Navy

Frigates|

* FDI HN class
* Hydra class
* Elli class

Gunboats|

* ex-Asheville class
* Thetis class
* ex-Osprey 55 class
* Osprey HSY-55 class
* Osprey HSY-56A class

Submarines|

* Glafkos class (Neptune I)
* Poseidon class (Neptune II)
* Papanikolis class

Fast attack craft|

* La Combattante IIa class
* La Combattante IIIa class
* La Combattante IIIb class
* Roussen class

Mine warfare ships|

* ex-Hunt-class minehunters
* ex-Osprey-class minehunters
* MSC-294-class minesweepers

General support ships|

* Etna-class replenishment ship
* ex-Lüneburg-class replenishment ships
* Atlas

Auxiliary ships|

* Ouranos-class coastal tankers
* Orion-class coastal tankers

Training ships|

* Aris

Landing vessels|

* Jason-class LSTs
* ex-Zubr-class LCACs
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