"The new coastal command boat " Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 May 2014 9:49 p.m. PST |
" It's small, fast, heavily armed, networked and one of a kind. But the new coastal command boat just starting to operate in this region is giving sailors in the Persian Gulf a taste of the swift and bad-ass boats coming to the brown-water Navy. "There are lots of concepts we're trying to prove out here," said Capt. Joseph DiGuardo, commodore of Task Force 56, whose job is to assess the armored boat's uses for explosive ordnance disposal, Seabees and more. The unnamed craft — numbered 65PB1101 — arrived here aboard a cargo ship in February, shipped from San Diego. The 65-foot, 50-ton CCB was built by Bremerton, Wash.-based SAFE Boats International…" link Full article here
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| Vosper | 21 May 2014 5:06 a.m. PST |
Sounds like a modernized MGB – a class of vessels I've always had interest in for gaming (PT boat, S-boote, Fairmile D, etc). |
| ptdockyard | 21 May 2014 9:50 a.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 21 May 2014 9:55 a.m. PST |
I definitely think there's a place for FACs in today's US Navy, let alone all of the other navies in the world.
I keep saving money to place an order with PT Dockyard, but Dave keeps releasing more and more attractive boats, which means saving even more money, which means I haven't ordered yet. One of these days, though, Dave, I promise. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 May 2014 11:07 a.m. PST |
It works better for your budget and painting time if you do smallish orders instead of one monster order! |
| Mako11 | 21 May 2014 2:46 p.m. PST |
It's a glorified, upgunned, and uparmored "inflatable dive boat". Probably good for pursuing and dispatching sharks, and drug runners in dinghies, but not much else. IMHO, unless the boat carries at least four over-the-horizon capable surface-to-surface missiles, it is not "bad-ass"….. |
| jpattern2 | 21 May 2014 5:07 p.m. PST |
It works better for your budget and painting time if you do smallish orders instead of one monster order! Who are you, to speak so wisely and rationally to me?  |
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