History
The
Shaldag class Fast Patrol Boat is a small but fast
class of patrol boats developed for the Israeli Sea Corps (ISC)
and launched in 1989, it has since seen service with several
other navies. Designed for security tasks where high intercept
speeds are required, such as interdiction of terrorism and
illegal smuggling. Its salient features are as follows;
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High
speed in rough seas, with good sea keeping and outstanding
maneuverability
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Exceptionally low slamming in all sea states
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Dry
decks at all speeds
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Very
spacious and accessible internal arrangement
Description
The boats have a smooth hull, V-shaped with a pointed nose and a
relatively high continuous main deck (the drought) and from stem
to stern. Deck superstructure is higher, given the size of the
boat and quite dimensional. The hull, deck and cabin
superstructure are made of aluminum alloy used in the Navy. The
hull is divided into six watertight compartments. Boat space /
the crew are fully air-conditioned.
The drive unit can be used with 2 types dieslového engine. Each
one drives the other type of controllable water jets. For
engines MTU 12V 396 TE are water jets Ka Me Wa (always 2 jets
with 2 engines) engines for Deutz / MWM TBO 604 BV16 (16V TBD
620) are designed nozzles LIPS (again two jets with 2 engines).
For them, the hull jail 10.000 kg of fuel (diesel). This
powerful drive system (2,500 horsepower), together with a
suitably shaped hull enables a high average speed (45 knots) and
a short reach very high speeds (up to 50 knots for 1 minute).
Both types of drive systems are very quiet and are made up of
modular, making it possible in a relatively short period of time
to change.
The main armament is a system plavidek Typhoon G. This is a
remote-controlled weapon systems, armed with 20 mm cannon, with
a fully automatic mode. Located on the bow of the vessel before
boarding extension (position A). The vessel also has a deck on
the sides of two pins, which can be placed in a universal
machine gun
FN MAG/M240 (7.62 mm) or large caliber
machine gun
Browning M2HQCB (12.7 mm) or automatic
grenade
mod.3 Mk.19 AGL ( 40mm). |