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Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Poti was the NATO code name assigned to a group of some 60-70 or so small anti-submarine warfare ships built for the Sovet Navy by the Kerch, Zelenodosk, and Khabarovsk shipyards throughout most of the 1960s. They are usually classified as corvettes (the smallest true warship type recognized) by most Western sources, although some classify them as light frigates and others as nothing more than large patrol boats. That is because there is no exact Western analogue for the official Russian designation malyy protilovodochnyy (or MPK type), with "small ASW ship" being an approximate English translation. Regardless, British military sources during the Cold War described these as typical of Soviet coastal patrol ship designs. They made Soviet Navy history by being their first gas turbine powered combat vessels to enter service. They also had conventional diesels for backup at the time, but combined operation of both propulsion systems proved to be erratic and unreliable, with abnormally high engine room piping corrosion rates occurring, and eventually all of them had to be converted to operate either on only gas turbines or only diesels because of this. Another unusual feature of Poti was that both propellers were mounted in hull tunnels in order to given it a very low draft for shallow water operations. This was so Poti could chase coastal submarines all the way up to the shoreline if need be. The names of only a few are known, mostly of those later transferred to Rumanian and Bulgarian service. They served through the better part of the back two-thirds of the Cold War but began to be phased out of Soviet service starting in the mid-to-late 1980s, with a handful converted for other purposes such as training ships and towing vessels. These conversions, along with those that had not already been phased out of Soviet service by the end of the Cold War, were subsequently removed from service by the fledling Russian Federation by the mid-1990s. The foreign-owned Potis lasted the longest, with some Bulgarian-owned Potis remaining in service into the first full decade of the 21st century. To find out more about the Poti class, follow the links below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poti-cla…

www.globalsecurity.org/militar…

This is the game stock model, with only one change by me. I had to provide my own generic textures for the radars, since they were not included with the Pack 3D archive at the time I downloaded it.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model provided by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Cold Waters. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Poti was the NATO code name assigned to a group of some 60-70 or so small anti-submarine warfare ships built for the Sovet Navy by the Kerch, Zelenodosk, and Khabarovsk shipyards throughout most of the 1960s. They are usually classified as corvettes (the smallest true warship type recognized) by most Western sources, although some classify them as light frigates and others as nothing more than large patrol boats. That is because there is no exact Western analogue for the official Russian designation malyy protilovodochnyy (or MPK type), with "small ASW ship" being an approximate English translation. Regardless, British military sources during the Cold War described these as typical of Soviet coastal patrol ship designs. They made Soviet Navy history by being their first gas turbine powered combat vessels to enter service. They also had conventional diesels for backup at the time, but combined operation of both propulsion systems proved to be erratic and unreliable, with abnormally high engine room piping corrosion rates occurring, and eventually all of them had to be converted to operate either on only gas turbines or only diesels because of this. Another unusual feature of Poti was that both propellers were mounted in hull tunnels in order to given it a very low draft for shallow water operations. This was so Poti could chase coastal submarines all the way up to the shoreline if need be. The names of only a few are known, mostly of those later transferred to Rumanian and Bulgarian service. They served through the better part of the back two-thirds of the Cold War but began to be phased out of Soviet service starting in the mid-to-late 1980s, with a handful converted for other purposes such as training ships and towing vessels. These conversions, along with those that had not already been phased out of Soviet service by the end of the Cold War, were subsequently removed from service by the fledling Russian Federation by the mid-1990s. The foreign-owned Potis lasted the longest, with some Bulgarian-owned Potis remaining in service into the first full decade of the 21st century. To find out more about the Poti class, follow the links below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poti-cla…

www.globalsecurity.org/militar…

This is the game stock model, with only one change by me. I had to provide my own generic textures for the radars, since they were not included with the Pack 3D archive at the time I downloaded it.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.