Komar-class missile boat

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The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as the Komar class, its NATO reporting name, meaning "mosquito", is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another ship with anti-ship missiles in 1967.

•  Algerian National Navy - 6 boats 1967
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  Type 024 class missile boat
•  Cuban Revolutionary Navy - 18 boats^{[citation needed]}
•  Egyptian Navy - 7 boats (1962–67), retired in the early 1990s; The Egyptian Navy built 6 derivative boats equipped with western weapons and electronics in the early 1980s as the October class
•  Indonesian Navy - 12 boats (1961–65)
•  Iraqi Navy - 3 boats (1972)
•  Myanmar Navy - 6 boats donated between 1969 and 1974, all retired between 1998 and 2002.^{[citation needed]}
•  Korean People's Navy - 10 boats^{[citation needed]}
•  Syrian Navy - 9 boats^{[citation needed]}
•  Vietnam People's Navy - 4 boats

• 1967 October 21 - Egyptian Navy Komar-class missile boats sank Israeli destroyer Eilat in the first combat use of P-15 Termit anti-ship missiles. This was the first time a ship had sunk another ship using guided missiles.^[2]
• 7 October 1973 - Two Syrian Navy Komar-class missile boats along with an
  Sa'ar 4-class missile boat in the Battle of Latakia
  . Other Syrian missile boats fired missiles from within the harbor that mistakenly or due to malfunction hit civilian craft in the harbour.
• 1974 January 19 - 4 People's Liberation Army Navy Komar-class joined Battle of the Paracel Islands in Vietnam War^{[citation needed]}

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