Sparviero-class patrol boat
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The Sparviero class, also known as the Nibbio class, are small hydrofoil missile boats capable of traveling at speeds of 46 knots. They were designed for and formerly used by the Italian Navy. The Jap
Italian Sparviero-class hydrofoil Nibbio underway
Pegasus-class hydrofoil
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The Pegasus-class hydrofoil was a series of six Patrol Hydrofoil Missile vessels operated by the United States Navy from 1977 to 1993. Initially intended to counter Warsaw Pact missile boats such as t
Sparviero-class patrol boat
…3.0 in) rapid-fire gun forward. It was planned in 1974–1975 to order four more Sparviero-class hydrofoils, to be supplemented by at least two larger Pegasus-class hydrofoils, but plans for a NATO-wide standardisation on the Pegasus class were abandoned. When orders were finally placed in 1977, they were for six more Sparvieros…
USS Pegasus (PHM-1)
All six members of the Pegasus class of armed hydrofoils
The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils USS Aquila (PHM 4), front, and USS Gemini (PHM 6), center, lie tied up in port with a third PHM. The Coast Guard surface effect ship (SES) cutter USCGC Shearwater (WSES 3) is in the background.