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VIDAR (N-52) class

Country of Origin: Norway


 0 VIDAR-class COASTAL MINELAYER (MMC)

 Name         Pendant     Launched          Commissioned       Status
 VIDAR        N-52        March 18, 1977    Oct. 21, 1977      Trans/Lithuania
 VALE         N-53        Aug. 5, 1977      Feb. 10, 1978      Trans/Latvia

Both units were ordered on June 11, 1975, primarily as coastal minelayers, but the vessels in the class can also serve as torpedo recovery vessels, personnel and cargo transports, fisheries protection ships and ASW...

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