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The German Water Police rented a Combat Boat 90H from the manufacturer Dockstavarvet for the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. This boat was involved in a high-speed chase with three Greenpeace RIBs who were trying to enter the restricted area near the hotel where the meeting was being held. A video clip of the incident was later widely ...
Holyhead Marine Services: Active: Several dozen CRC/ORC as of 2024 (troop-carrying and fire-support variants) [1] General characteristics; Type: Fast Assault Craft: Displacement: Light Load 4760 kg inc fuel & 2 crew & armour, Full load 6000 kg: Length: 9.1m: Beam: 2.9m: Draught: Light 0.56 m, Loaded 0.69 m: Propulsion
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 ...
It can include small craft such as assault boats which are specifically for military or combat use. it can also include boats which are used by the navy as various types of support craft. See also: Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen
The Roussen class [1] is a seven-strong class of British-designed fast attack missile boats improved and customized for the Hellenic Navy, also known as Super Vita.The class is named after its lead ship, which in turn is named after Lt Nikolaos Roussen, a World War II submarines officer who was killed in the suppression of the Navy mutiny in April 1944.
The BAT submunition was an outgrowth of the Assault Breaker Project. [1] This broad-ranging Cold War project’s objective was to develop advanced weapon systems to destroy a Soviet armored assault across border between West Germany and East Germany. An early successful weapon system was the Hellfire Missile.
The Hamina-class missile boat is a class of fast attack craft of the Finnish Navy. They are classified as "missile fast attack craft" or ohjusvene , literally " missile boat " in Finnish. [ 2 ] The Hamina FACs are based at Upinniemi , and form the 7th Surface Warfare Squadron, part of the Finnish Coastal Fleet , together with the minelayers MLC ...
They were ordered in the 1970s and the first boat, Hauk, was commissioned on 17 August 1977. Designed as a development of the Storm and Snøgg classes, by Lieutenant commander (later Captain) Harald Henriksen, the 14 Hauk -class vessels made up the Coastal Combat Flotilla , responsible for protecting the rugged coastline of Norway.