Project 58130 Orlan is a Ukrainian Sea Guard patrol-boat design represented by the single BG-200 Balaklava. Built at Feodosiya for border-security, rescue, inspection, and coastal or river patrol work, the class is lightly armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun and appears in wartime Ukraine maritime-force listings as a Sea Guard patrol asset rather than a missile or gunboat class.
A 2023 Russia-Ukraine war equipment catalog lists Project 58130 Orlan / BG-200 Balaklava under Ukrainian-produced combat boats in use by Ukraine's Defense Forces and identifies it with the State Border Guard Service. A 2024 Dnieper-flotilla analysis lists one Project 58130 Balaklava among armed Ukrainian maritime-guard boats potentially available for Dnieper operations.
Role detailsProject 58130 is closer to a border-service cutter than a naval strike craft. Sources describe a boat intended for state-border protection on rivers, lakes, coastal waters, maritime checkpoint support, environmental-control tasks, rescue work, and inspection-boat operations.
River, lake, coastal, and maritime-checkpoint service rather than blue-water combat operations. A 2021 MVS report described Balaklava responding to a Black Sea distress call and towing a disabled fishing vessel.
One 12.7 mm machine gun is the consistently listed fixed weapon; later secondary references also note possible portable air-defense carriage.
Ukraine planned a larger replacement run for older Project 1400M boats, but only BG-200 Balaklava was completed before the project stalled after the 2014 Crimea crisis.
Public sources describe Project 58130 as a one-boat Orlan patrol-boat class rather than a family with multiple completed variants.
| Variant | Configuration | Designation notes |
|---|---|---|
| BG-200 Balaklava | Sole completed Project 58130 boat | Shipbuilding.mk.ua and Ukrainian Military Pages identify BG-200 Balaklava as the first and only completed boat of the planned Project 58130 Orlan series. Sources: Shipbuilding.mk.ua Project 58130 Orlan, Ukrainian Military Pages Project 58130 Orlan |
Shipbuilding.mk.ua says construction began at Feodosiya Shipbuilding Company More under Ukraine's state border infrastructure program.
Sources: Shipbuilding.mk.ua Project 58130 Orlan
Offshore Energy, citing Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrainian Frontier Service reporting, said Orlan-class patrol-craft construction was underway and that the state program planned eight Orlan boats by 2020.
Sources: Offshore Energy Ukrainian Coast Guard Patrol Boats
Wikimedia Commons image provenance and vessel-reference material record the Balaklava launch date as 9 October 2012.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons File BG-200, FleetPhoto Balaklava
Shipbuilding.mk.ua and Ukrainian Military Pages report that Balaklava was handed to the Sevastopol Sea Guard detachment in December 2012.
Sources: Shipbuilding.mk.ua Project 58130 Orlan, Ukrainian Military Pages Project 58130 Orlan
Ukrainian Military Pages says the boat was transferred to the Odesa Sea Guard detachment after leaving Crimea in March 2014; a Verkhovna Rada report later described Balaklava as a Sea Guard boat removed from Crimea and Sevastopol during Russia's occupation.
Sources: Ukrainian Military Pages Project 58130 Orlan, Verkhovna Rada Odesa Sea Guard Visit
Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the Sea Guard boat Balaklava responded to a distress call south of Tendra Spit and towed a disabled fishing vessel toward Ochakiv.
Sources: MVS Balaklava Rescue Report
A Dnieper-flotilla analysis and the Sprotyv equipment catalog list Project 58130 / BG-200 Balaklava among Ukrainian Sea Guard or wartime maritime assets.
Sources: Military Review Dnieper Flotilla, Sprotyv Weapons of the Russia-Ukraine War 2022-2023
