Bay-class patrol boat vs Type 025 torpedo boat

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Bay-class patrol boat — licensed reference photograph

APatrol & mine warfare vessels

Bay-class patrol boat

Patrol boat

Credit

Ken Hodge · CC BY 2.0 · Resized · CC BY 2.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BPatrol & mine warfare vessels

Type 025 torpedo boat

Fast attack hydrofoil-torpedo boats

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Bay-class patrol boatLength

38.2 m

Length source ↗

Type 025 torpedo boatLength

22.5 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Bay-class patrol boatlarger figure on 2 of 3

Length+70%
Beam+89%

Type 025 torpedo boatlarger figure on 1 of 3

Speed+151%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

14 of 31 rows sourced on both sides

38.2m

22.5m

Length+70%

All recorded figures & sources

38.2 m

Length

Single source

38.2 m (125 ft 4 in)^[source]

22.5 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Bay-class patrol boat and Type 025 torpedo boat configuration
Specification	Bay-class patrol boat	Type 025 torpedo boat
Power	—	3 × M 50F diesel engines; 3 shafts, 3,300 hp (2,500 kW)^[source]
Name	Bay class^[source]	Type 025 (Huchuan)^[source]
Builders	Austal^[source]	Hudong Shipyard , Shanghai^[source]
Operators	Australian Border Force Marine Unit Sri Lanka Navy Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy Romanian Naval Forces Bangladesh Navy Albanian Naval Force^[source]

In service	1999–present^[source]	—

Completed	8^[source]	220+^[source]

Active	2^[source]	—

Retired	6^[source]	—

Type	Patrol boat^[source]	Fast attack hydrofoil-torpedo boats^[source]

Propulsion	2 × MTU 16V 2000 M70 diesel engines 1 VosperThornycroft bow thruster^[source]	—

Boats & landing craft carried	2 × Wiltrading Pursuit 640 vessels (USLC-2C Survey)^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Radar: Surface search: Racal Decca; E/F and I bands Sonar: Wesmar SS 390E dipping sonar^[source]	Surface search/fire control; Soviet Skin Head at E-band or Chinese Type 753 navigational radar at I-band^[source]

Armament	1 × 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun^[source]	Standard: 2 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes and 2 × twin 14.5 mm heavy machine guns^[source]

Country of origin	Australia^[source]Bay-class patrol boat · origin explicitly stated in the linked current national-inventory row; no inference from operator or shipyard	—

Preceded by	—	Type 02^[source]

Succeeded by	—	Type 027^[source]

In commission	—	1966^[source]

Reported operators	—	Reported operator · Albanian Naval Force Reported operator · Bangladesh Navy Reported operator · People's Liberation Army Navy Reported operator · Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Reported operator · Pakistan Navy Reported operator · Romanian Naval Forces Reported operator · Tanzania Naval Command