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Asheville. -class gunboat. Guns: 1 × USN 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk 34; 50 rounds/min to 7 nmi (13 km); weight of shell 6 kg. 1 × Bofors 40 mm/60 (56) Mk 10. The Asheville-class gunboats were a class of small warships built for the United States Navy in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The class is named for a city in western North Carolina and ...
Osprey 55-class gunboat. Osprey 55-class gunboat P-19 HS Navmachos at Faliron Bay, Greece. The Osprey 55-class gunboat is a Danish -designed class of naval ship currently in service in the Hellenic Navy and Royal Moroccan Navy. Two ships were ordered by Greece in March 1988 and built by Hellenic Shipyards. The first one was laid down on 8 May ...
The HSY-55-class gunboat is a class of naval vessel designed by the Hellenic Navy and built by Hellenic Shipyards (HSY). This class of ship uses the modular concept so that weapons and sensors can be changed as required. These vessels are similar in appearance to Osprey 55-class gunboat. The first pair was ordered on 20 February 1990, but ...
2 × twin .50 caliber machine guns. The second USS Grand Rapids (PGM-98/PG-98) was an Asheville -class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War . On 13 June 1968, the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington laid down Grand Rapids, the eleventh Asheville -class gunboat built by Tacoma. In August 1968, however, the Tacoma ...
Category. : Asheville-class gunboats. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Asheville class gunboats. United States Navy Asheville-class gunboats built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company and Peterson Builders.
Gunboat. A Bramble -class gunboat, built for the Royal Navy in 1886. A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
FIM-92 Stinger portable personal missile launchers. The Osprey HSY-56A-class gunboat (also known as Machitis -class gunboat) [1][2] is a class of naval vessel currently in service in the Hellenic Navy. These ships are similar to HSY-55-class gunboat and were also built by Hellenic Shipyards (HSY). They are the most modern patrol vessels of ...
The Shantou-class gunboat was a Chinese-built gunboat of the People's Republic of China 's People's Liberation Army Navy. Known in the United States as the "Swatow" [1] class gunboat, it was based on the Soviet P-6 class torpedo boat. The boat is designated as Type 55A (55 Jia Xing, 55甲型). Instead of being wooden hulled, and having ...