Missile boat
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A missile boat or missile cutter is a small, fast warship armed with anti-ship missiles. Being smaller than other warships such as destroyers and frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They are similar in concept to the torpedo boats of World War II; in fact, the first missile boats were modified torpedo boats with the torpedo tubes replaced by missile tubes.
An Osa I class missile boat in 1983. The Osa class are probably the most numerous class of missile boats to have been built.
HSwMS Ystad of the Swedish Navy 2017.
A Gepard-class vessel of the German Navy
Israeli Navy
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The Israeli Navy is the naval warfare service arm of the Israel Defense Forces, operating primarily in the Mediterranean Sea theater as well as the Gulf of Eilat and the Red Sea theater. The current commander in chief of the Israeli Navy is Aluf David Saar Salama. The Israeli Navy is believed to be responsible for maintaining Israel's offshore nuclear second strike capability.
Sarah I, a 190-foot (57.9 m) four-masted schooner of 750 tons used as a training ship by the Betar Naval Academy.
INS Eilat, ex-Royal Navy Z-class destroyer sold to Israel in 1955
INS Gal at the Naval Museum, Haifa
Israeli missile boats on parade, 1971