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Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon ...
The boat was powered by two 430 hp General Motors 12V71 diesel engines giving a top speed of 14.8 knots and it expelled its exhaust directly into the water reducing noise and smoke emissions, making it the quietest river patrol craft. The boat carried some 650 gallons of diesel fuel, allowing an operational range of 130 nautical miles (240 km ...
one 20mm cannon. two .50-caliber machine guns. Armor. XAR-30-type steel and bar armor. The Monitor was a highly modified version of the LCM-6 developed by the United States Navy for use as a mobile riverine assault boat in the Vietnam War. Another version served as a command and control boat (CCB or Charlie boat).
The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), [6] also known as Swift Boat, [6] were all-aluminum, 50-foot (15 m) long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-water navy [7] to interdict Vietcong movement of arms and munitions, transport South Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for ...
In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy. It was modeled after lessons learned by the French experience in the First Indochina War of ...
United States. Nasty. -class patrol boat. The Nasty class of fast patrol boats were a set of 20 vessels built for the United States Navy to a Norwegian design and purchased in the 1960s for covert operations during the Vietnam War. Following the conflict they remained in service until the early 1980s.
V. Vietnam War patrol vessels of the United States (1 C, 48 P) Categories: Vietnam War naval ships by country. Vietnam War ships of the United States. Naval ships of the United States. Military units and formations of the United States in the Vietnam War. Ships of the United States by conflict. United States Navy in the Vietnam War.
Patrol craft. A typical vessel of the PC-461 -class. These PC-461 -class submarine chasers were 280 ton, 174-foot (53 m) vessels, with a crew of 65. They had a top speed of 20.2 knots (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph). The main armament was one 3"/50 caliber gun, along with 40 mm and 20 mm guns. Name. Acquired. Formerly.