Rauma-class missile boat

FNS Porvoo
Class overview
Name:	Rauma class
Builders:	Finnyards Hollming
Operators:	Finnish Navy
Preceded by:	Helsinki class
Succeeded by:	Hamina class
In commission:	1990-present
Completed:	4
Active:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Fast attack craft
Displacement:	240 tons
Length:	48.5 m (159 ft 1 in)
Beam:	8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draught:	1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	2 × MTU 16V 538 TB93 diesels, 6600 kW
Propulsion:	2 × Riva Calzoni IRC 115 waterjets
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement:	19
Sensors and processing systems:	Saab 9LV225 Mk4 Combat Management System Saab CEROS 200 FCS Saab Microwave System Sea Giraffe 9GA 208 Surface search radar Raytheon ARPA Navigation radar Kongsberg ST2400 Towed sonar sonar Finnyards Sonac/PTA towed array sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	MASS decoy system
Armament:	1 × Bofors 40 mm/70 2 × NSV 12.7 mm machine guns 6 × Saab RBS-15 Mk3 SSM 2 × Saab Elma ASW-600 9-tube ASW mortars Mine rails for tactical mines can be fitted instead of missiles

The Rauma-class missile boats (Finnish: Rauma-luokan ohjusvene) are a class of missile boat in use by the Finnish Navy.

It is the predecessor of the Hamina-class missile boats. The ships were constructed at the Hollming yards and Finnyards in Rauma, Finland. All the ships have their home port in Pansio.

All four vessels underwent a 70 million EUR modernization program at the Western Shipyard in Teijo. The program includes the installation of a new version of the 9LV225 control and command system made by SAAB (the Mk.3 has been replaced by a Mk.4), the replacement of the Mistral SAM missiles with a MASS decoy system. The MASS system also replaces the Philax chaff and IR flares, the Thales Matilda radar warning system, and the six 103 mm rails for rocket illuminants, that were previously fitted. The sonar and ASW systems are being completely renewed (the previous Simrad ST 240 has been replaced by a ST2400). The modernization programme began late in 2010 with all four vessels expected to be ready by autumn 2013. The first vessel, Naantali, was handed over to the Finnish Navy in May 2013. The modernization will allow the vessels to be operational into the 2020s.

The vessel were previously armed with a sextuple Mistral SAM launcher, which could be replaced by a Sako twin-barrel 23 mm/87 anti-aircraft cannon (a modified version of the ZU-23-2). Additionally the vessel had a portable Mistral SAM launcher pad that could be mounted on the ship's deck, or on land, in order to protect the moored vessel.

On 18 February 2015, the Finnish media reported that the Rauma class has been banned from use after fatigue damage was discovered in the vessels' hull.

Vessels

FNS Rauma

Pennant number: 70

Builder: Hollming

Ordered: 27 August 1987

Commissioned: 18 October 1990

Home base: Pansio

Current state: In active service.

FNS Raahe

Pennant number: 71

Builder: Hollming

Commissioned: 20 August 1991

Modernized: 26 June 2013

Home base: Pansio

Current state: In active service

FNS Porvoo

Pennant number: 72

Builder: Finnyards

Commissioned: 27 April 1992

Home base: Pansio

Current state: In active service

FNS Naantali

Pennant number: 73

Builder: Finnyards

Commissioned: 23 June 1992

Modernized: 20 May 2013

Home base: Pansio

Current state: In active service