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Sri Lanka: 52~56 tonnes 22: P410 - P424 P450 - P451 P490 - P492 P497 - P497 Built by Colombo Dockyard for the Sri Lanka Navy. Arrow speed boats Sri Lanka: 154+ [17] Small fast patrol/assault speed boat constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka) and the Rapid Action Boat ...
Malaysia: 19 [22] 6 units ordered in 2021 and 13 units ordered in 2022. Armament: 1 × 12.7 mm RCWS; 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns; Sandakan Jaya Teknik MPB: Fast interceptor craft- Malaysia: 4 [23] Armament: 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns; Pengawal: Fast interceptor craft - Malaysia: 2 [24] Transferred from Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Armament:
From mid 2008, it has also been issued to the newly created Rapid Action Boat Squadron. The Arrow boat was widely used by the Sri Lanka Navy against the LTTE’s Sea Tigers during the last phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War, known as the Eelam War IV. [6] The 100th Arrow boat was launched by the Sri Lanka Navy on 11 September 2008. [7]
The Ultra Fast Attack Craft, commonly known as the UFAC [2] or Colombo class, is a Sri Lankan ultra high-speed class of patrol boats meant for a variety of naval missions from off-shore coastal patrol missions to high-speed, high-maneuver littoral warfare. They are based on the Shaldag boats made by Israel.
The 4th Fast Attack Flotilla (aka Dvora Squadron) is a force element flotilla of the Sri Lanka Navy.The flotilla's mission is to provide heavily armed and fast patrol boat (called fast attack craft or FACs) capability to counter sea tiger movements along the coast and to protect naval and civilian shipping from sea tiger suicide crafts.
However with the Naval Boat Building Yard introducing the Arrow-class the asymmetric tactics of the Sea Tigers were no longer effective. In 2006, Navy confronted LTTE 21 times and in 2007 12 times and by 2008 (up-to-date) only 04 times as the Sea Tigers lost cadres and fighting platforms.
The Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS)(In Sinhalese: "ක්ෂණික ක්රියාකාරී යාත්රා බලඝණය" Ksanika Vihidum Yathra Balaghanaya) is a force element squadron of the Sri Lanka Navy that provides expertise in small boat operations in support of littoral operations, amphibious and riverine activities.
[7] [17] Austal received the tender for eight 57.8 metres (190 ft) patrol boats on 12 August 2011. [18] Construction of the vessels, designated the Cape class, started in 2012 with the keel of the first boat being laid in June 2012, [19] and launched in January 2013. [20] The new patrol boats entered service between March 2013 and September ...