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Designed to address the vulnerabilities of traditional patrol boats while expanding the mission role of the platform over its predecessor, the 40 Defiant delivers substantial increases in capabilities and firepower.
PT boats filled an important need in World War II in shallow waters, complementing the achievements of greater ships in greater seas. This need for small, fast, versatile, strongly armed vessels does not wane. —John F. Kennedy.
Metal Shark’s 40 Defiant is a revolutionary new monohull patrol boat platform designed to meet the military needs of tomorrow in a quickly changing world. Developed as the replacement for up to 160 patrol vessels deployed worldwide with the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Combat Command’s Coastal Riverine Forces, Metal Shark’s design was ...
This is a perfect analogy—the MH-60S is a modern incarnation of the famed patrol torpedo (PT) boat, and the Navy will be better for using it as such. Like PT crews, those in Navy helicopters can perform the basic functions of maritime logistics, but it is the combat power that sets them apart.
Today a well-armed PT boat flotilla would help establish sea control, reducing the requirement for a destroyer presence and allowing those ships to focus on the high-tech threats for which they were designed, such as anti-ship cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and submarines.
In the three years since 10 sailors and two Riverine Command Boats were captured by Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops, the Navy has made big changes to the organization and is now thinking about...
The U.S. Navy’s newest small boat to enter service, the 40-foot Patrol Boat (or 40PB) is not a direct replacement for the Navy’s Mark VIs. Instead, the 40PB will act as a sentry boat to Navy harbors, ports, inlets, rivers, and coastal areas and also operate in the open water.
The U.S. Navy and Louisiana-based boatbuilder Metal Shark are nearing the end of the testing period for the new “40 PB” 43-foot patrol boat platform, and full-rate production is set to begin...
Designed to replace the legacy Riverine Command Boat for open water and near shore operations, the Mark VI is larger, more survivable, and better equipped with modernized weapons, communications, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.
The Navy's Long Overdue Smart & Deadly Patrol Boat Has Arrived. The Navy has been slow to adapt from a Cold War era 'blue water' Navy, focused on fighting set-piece prelude to WWIII engagements...