Fast attack craft
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A fast attack craft, sometimes referred to as a Patrol Torpedo Gunboat or a Patrol Craft, is a small, fast, agile, offensive, often affordable warship armed with anti-ship missiles, gun or torpedoes.
A fast attack craft of the Chilean Navy
A Klewang-class vessel of the Indonesian Navy
US Navy 80 ft (24 m) Elco PT boats, led by PT-105, at high speed in 1942
German fast attack craft S57 Weihe (P6157), 1985
Torpedo boat
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A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torped
Fast attack craft
…number of small, agile vessels to break up invading fleets of larger vessels. The idea was first put into action in the 1870s with the steam-powered torpedo boats, which were produced in large numbers by both the Royal Navy and the French Navy. These new vessels proved especially susceptible to rough seas and to…
Painting of a French Navy torpedo boat
A decommissioned P 4-class torpedo boat of the Bangladesh Navy preserved at the Bangladesh Military Museum
Confederate torpedo boat CSS David
HMS Lightning, the first modern torpedo boat, built in 1876