KRI Viper is an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n naval vessel of the PC-40 patrol boats and was commissioned on the 20 October 2006 by Indonesian National Defence Forces Commander Marshal Djoko Suyanto.

There are a total of 4 boats in the PC-40 class, KRI Viper 820, KRI Piton 821, KRI Weling 822.

Armaments

'A' gun: 25-mm and 12.7-mm calibre machine guns made in Russia - also have a combat information room, a communication room and an ammunition store room.

Notable deployments

Viper helped recover some of the bodies of the deceased from the Levina 1

Levina 1

The Levina 1 was an Indonesian passenger ferry. On February 22, 2007, it caught fire, killing at least 51 people. Three days later, on February 25, it sank with a group of members of the media and investigators on board, killing at least one more and leaving three missing.-Background:The Levina 1...

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