Zhuk-class patrol boat

The Zhuk-class patrol boat, also known as Project 1400M "Grif", is a small border patrol vessel of less than 40 ton displacement built in the Soviet Union and later in Ukraine.

Exact numbers are unknown, but they were widely exported by the Soviet Union in addition to use in home waters as harbor patrol.

The vessels were excellent for this task thanks to a cheap design for mass production.

With only a single simple radar unit and manually-aimed machine guns, they made ideal patrol boats.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the abolition of its primary user the, KGB Maritime Guard, it was taken over by the Russian Federal Coast Guard.

Former Estonian patrol boat EML Grif on display at the Lennusadam port in Tallinn