Gurza-class boat

The Project 58150 Gurza (Desert Viper) class is a series of small armored artillery boats built for the Ukrainian Navy and the Uzbek Frontier Service. The whole class is produced by the Leninska Kuznya (Kiev).

The original and modernized classes are developed by the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center (Mykolaiv).

There were only 2 ships of Project 58150 Gurza in 2004 for the Uzbek Border Guard and were financed by the United States.

The modernized Project 58155 Gurza-M for the Ukrainian Navy started to be built at the Leninska Kuznya in October 2012. Originally it was planned to build nine such vessels by 2017. In December 2013 the Ministry of Defense withdrew its contract.

In summer of 2014 construction of Gurza-M was revived and the first two vessels are expected to be completed in fall of 2015. The new military contract is for 20 vessels that should be completed by 2017.

Operators

 * 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: Uzbek Frontier Service (Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan)
 * 2 river gunboats (Dzhaikhun and Saikhun) commissioned in 2005 and stationed in Termez patrolling Amu Darya on the border with Afghanistan.
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Ukrainian Navy