Faced with Croatian Navy coastal artillery returning fire, Split began retreating east, sailing through the Korčula Channel to the JRM-controlled island of Vis. The following morning, Split and the rest of its tactical group opened fire against the islands of Šolta and Brač and the city of Split itself. On 14 November, Croatian naval commandos attacked and damaged the patrol boat Mukos (PČ-176), leading to a naval engagement that would become known as the Battle of the Dalmatian Channels. In mid-November it served as the command ship of a tactical group which was controlling the waters around its namesake, the city of Split. Designated as a Large Patrol Boat ( Serbo-Croatian: Veliki patrolni brod – VPBR) by the JRM, Split's original armament consisting of naval guns, anti-submarine rocket launchers and anti-aircraft missiles was further improved by the addition of four P-20 anti-ship missiles, making it the most versatile ship in the JRM inventory at the time.įollowing the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, Split was involved in enforcing a naval blockade of the Croatian coast. It was soon followed by a second Koni-class hull, Koper (VPBR-32), commissioned in the JRM in 1982. The ship was acquired by the JRM in 1980 and commissioned as Split, becoming the second ship in JRM service to be named after the city of Split. Laid down and completed during the late 1970s as Sokol of the Soviet Navy, it was the fourth ship of a class that was being built by the Zelenodolsk Shipyard primarily for export to various friendly navies. Split ( pennant number VPBR-31) was a Koni-class frigate in service with the Yugoslav Navy (JRM). 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers.1 × 4K33 Osa-M surface-to-air missile launcher.Zelenodolsk Shipyard, Zelenodolsk, Soviet UnionĬommissioned in the Navy of FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro in 1992ġ,800 nmi (3,300 km 2,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h 16 mph) Split moored in the Bay of Kotor in 2008.
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