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USCGC Point Judith (WPB-82345) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Tacoma, Washington in 1966 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. [2] [3]
The Mk 38 Mod 2 mounting, also known as the Typhoon Weapon System, [9] features remote control capability, meaning that the operator can safely control the system from within the ship's Combat information center. Two different ammunition types can be loaded into the system, and the operator can select which one to use from their console.
The effectiveness of any wire obstacle is greatly increased by planting anti-tank and blast antipersonnel mines in and around it. Additionally, connecting bounding anti-personnel mines (e.g. the PROM-1) to the obstacle with tripwires has the effect of booby-trapping the obstacle itself, hindering attempts to clear it.
2 x MK 53 Mod 10 NULKA decoy launching systems; Armament: 1 x MK 110 57mm gun a variant of the Bofors 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System; 1 x BAE Systems Mk 38 Mod 3 25 mm gun with 7.62 mm co-axial gun [3] 2 x M2 Browning.50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns mounted on a MK 50 Stabilized Small Arms Mount (SSAM)
The Casco class was a large class of United States Coast Guard cutters in commission from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. [1] They saw service as weather reporting ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans until the early 1970s, and some saw combat service during the Vietnam War.
Her anti-aircraft weaponry consisted of three quad-mounted Bofors 40 mm autocannons [2] and six Oerlikon 20 mm autocannons. She also carried six K-gun depth charge projectors and a Hedgehog as anti-submarine weapons. After the war her aft 5-inch mount was replaced by a helicopter deck, sometime after 1964 the forward mount was removed. [4]
In April 1984, Madrona entered the U.S. Coast Guard Shipyard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, to undergo a major renovation under the Coast Guard's Service Life Extension Program, commonly referred to as SLEP. This $15 million overhaul, encompassing the complete rebuilding of the interior of the vessel, greatly improved living conditions and replaced ...
Tetrapods used to protect a seawall Large interlocked Xblocs (8.0 m 3 or 280 cu ft) in a trial placement. A wave-dissipating concrete block is a naturally or manually interlocking concrete structure designed and employed to minimize the effects of wave action upon shores and shoreline structures, such as quays and jetties.