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Stridsbåt 90 H(alv) (Strb 90 H; CB90) is a class of fast military assault craft used by several countries after being originally developed for the Swedish Navy by Dockstavarvet. Its name means Combat Boat 90 Half; the 90 refers to the year of acceptance (1990) and Half refers to the fact that it can carry and deploy a half platoon of ...
Skjold-class corvettes (skjold means "shield" in Norwegian) are a class of six light, superfast, stealth missile corvettes in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy.The boats were formerly classed as MTBs (motor torpedo boats) but, from 2009, the Royal Norwegian Navy has described them as corvettes (korvett) because their seaworthiness is seen as comparable to corvettes, and because they do not ...
The PTF boats were used in Vietnam and operated out of Danang, Vietnam. The boats operated in the Mekong Delta. Each PTF boat carried a 12-man team. The PTF boats supplemented the large fleet of aluminum hulled Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) boats. PTFs were used to carrying out hit-and-run and landing operations.
The first combat use of missile boats was an attack by two Egyptian Soviet-built Komar-class boats on the Israeli destroyer Eilat on 20 October 1967, several months after the Six-Day War. The two boats launched a total of four P-15 missiles, three of which struck the Eilat and sank her with the loss of 47 crew dead or missing and over 90 ...
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80), U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USCGC Forrest Rednour (WPC-1129), a U.S. Coast Guard Sentinel-class cutter The United States military has numerous types of watercraft, operated by the Navy, including Naval Special Warfare Command and Military Sealift Command, as well as the Coast Guard, Army and Air Force
The two boats were tested at Little Creek. Training on the boat started on May 3, 1963 at Naval Base Coronado. PTF 3 and PTF-4 departed Coronado on September 17 loaded on USS Point Defiance) a Landing Ship Dock ship. Point Defiance took the boats to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and then to U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines.
The Patrol Craft Fast, also known as the Swift Boats, were acquired for the Vietnam War; 193 of these 50 foot boats were purchased. [7] Patrol craft sweeper (PCS)
Seraj-1 is a military speed boat that is used by Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps.It is based on the British made Bradstone Challenger, a Bladerunner 51, which holds the record for the fastest circumnavigation of Britain. [1]