3rd Ship Flotilla
Appearance
3rd Ship Flotilla of Polish Navy | |
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![]() 3 FO Logo | |
Active | 1971 - present |
Country | ![]() |
Branch | Polish Navy |
Size | 3000 personnel 22 vessels |
Base: | Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base |
Patron | Komandor Bolesław Romanowski |
Equipment: | Warships, Submarines, Auxiliary |
3 Flotylla Okrętów (3rd Ship Flotilla) is a tactical unit of the Polish Navy composed of 11 sub-units.[1] The unit is a main strike force of the Polish Navy, it operates various warships types such as frigates, corvettes, submarines or fast attack crafts. The main base of 3 FO is Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base.[2]
Sub-Units
- Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Podwodnych)
- Anti-Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Zwalczania Okrętów Podwodnych)
- Missile Vessels Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Rakietowych)
- Support Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Wsparcia)
- Reconnaissance Group (Grupa Okrętów Rozpoznawczych)
- 9th Anti-Air Wing (9 Dywizjon Przeciwlotniczy)
- 43rd Sapper Battalion (43 Battalion Saperów)
- Naval Base Command (Komenda Portu Wojennego Gdynia)
- Technical Base of Polish Navy (Baza Techniczna Marynarki Wojennej)
- Hel Peninsula Naval Base (Punkt Bazowania Hel)
Equipment
Vessels
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Naval_Base_of_Gdynia_%28PL%29.jpg/350px-Naval_Base_of_Gdynia_%28PL%29.jpg)
Vessel | Origin | Type | In service | Unit | Notes |
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Oliver Hazard Perry class | ![]() |
Frigate | 2 | Anti-Submarine Unit | |
Kobben class | ![]() |
Submarine | 4 | Submarine Unit | |
Kilo class | ![]() |
Submarine | 1 | Submarine Unit | |
Orkan class | ![]() |
Fast Attack Craft | 3 | Missile Vessels Unit | |
Project 888 | ![]() |
Training Ship | 1 | Support Unit | |
Project 570M | ![]() |
Rescue Ship | 2 | Support Unit | |
Project 5002 | ![]() |
Rescue Ship | 2 | Support Unit | |
Project 863 | ![]() |
Reconnaissance Vessel | 2 | Reconnaissance Group |
References
- ^ ranslate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.3fo.wp.mil.pl/pl/index.html&usg=ALkJrhggsRGhsLK5iAA89JaEZABEUfOr0w[permanent dead link]
- ^ "..:: :: Aktualności ::." wp.mil.pl. Retrieved 17 July 2015. in Polish