The most powerful ship of the former JRM sailed again

Last Sunday, the Navy of the Army of Montenegro achieved a significant result in terms of increasing its capabilities - after almost five years, the former missile frigate, and now officially the P-33 "Kotor" patrol ship, went to sea.

The ship, which had been stationary in the Port of Bar for years, set sail on its first trip on Thursday and spent the whole day at sea in our territorial and international waters of the southern Adriatic.

It was about the first test run of "Kotor" after new auxiliary engines were installed on that ship in the past two months. In the military part of the Port of Bar, over the past three months, experts from the company "Arsenal Rem" from Kraljevo, in cooperation with members of the MCG and the crew of the P-33 ship, replaced two auxiliary engines on the "Kotor".

Out of a total of three M-845 type auxiliary engines, none of them had been working properly on that ship for almost ten years, which means that "Kotor" did not have a reliable source of electricity for the functioning of the ship, i.e. the operation of electronic sensors and weapons. Instead of three defective ones, two second-hand, but very little-used MTU type auxiliary engines were installed in this ship.

Members of the MVCG technical services dismantled them last year from the decommissioned VPBR-31 "Split" missile frigate, before it was towed from Boka to be cut into scrap metal in Albania.

"'Kotor' will soon be a fully operational warship again," a source from the Navy told "Vijesta".

With this, the MVCG will get another representative large warship, equal to "Kotor's" twin, the P-34 patrol ship, which until now has been the backbone of the Navy's combat power.

"Kotor" and its twin "Pula" (now P-34), were the largest and most powerful warships of the former JRM. These two missile frigates were built in 1987 and 1988 in Kraljivica. The 92-meter-long and 11,7-meter-wide ship is armed with a 76-mm cannon, two 30-mm twin-barreled cannons, two 20-mm cannons, four "Styx" anti-ship missile launchers, an "Osa-M" air defense missile system, and two rocket launchers. depth charges RBU-6000 "Burja".

A commotion among fishermen from Italy

The appearance of "Kotor" in international waters in front of the Montenegrin border line at sea last Sunday caused a commotion among numerous Italian fishermen, who regularly exploit the fish stock from our economic zone.

In recent years, Italian fishermen have often been known to "smash" deep inside our territorial waters, which our fishermen warned us about.