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Riverine patrol boat
Patrol Boat, River is a riverine patrol boat. It was built by Uniflite, River City Machine Works. Reported operators include Khmer Republic, Panama, Philippines, South Vietnam, Vietnam, Thailand, United States.
Technical data
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
PBR (Patrol Boat, River)
Uniflite, River City Machine Works
See Operators
PTF boat
Special Operations Craft – Riverine
$75,000 ($593,000 in 2018 dollars)
Dec. 1965 – Sep. 1980, 1990
1966–2019
161 (Mark I) and 418 (Mark II) 6 (Mark II Replacements - RCMW)
13
at least 19
27 non-operational 9 operational
Riverine patrol boat
8.9 ton for Mk II
31 ft (9.4 m) (Mk I) 32 ft (9.8 m) (Mk II)
10.5 ft (3.2 m) (MK I) 11.5 ft (3.5 m) (MK II)
2 ft (0.61 m)
2 × 180 hp (130 kW) Detroit Diesel 6V53N engines each driving a Jacuzzi Brothers 14YJ water pump-jet with thrust buckets for reverse thrust .
30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (unloaded) 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) (loaded)
150 nautical miles
4
Coxswain , Engineman , Gunner, Seaman, Patrol Officer, MP , ARVN Interpreter
Raytheon 1900 radar unit
1 × twin .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB Browning machine guns or 1 × single (20 mm) Mk12 Colt 20 mm cannon (forward, in a rotating tub) 1 × single (81 mm) M252 mortar or 1 × single M2HB (rear) 1 or 2 × 7.62 mm M60 machine gun (s) (side-mounted) 1 × 40 mm Mk 18 grenade launcher (pintle mount)
Ceramic armor shields fitted to guns, bridge. Also crew-applied ballistic blankets to protect the coxswain in the control cockpit.
Khmer Republic – Khmer National Navy 64 units.
Panama – SENAN
Philippines – Formerly used by Philippine Navy
South Vietnam – Republic of Vietnam Navy 293 units in 1970.
Vietnam : Vietnam People's Navy 275 units in 1975, Captured from the former South Vietnam Navy. Retired in 1992.
Thailand – Royal Thai Navy 45 units overall, 20 commissioned in 1967, 10 in 1972, and 15 in 1973. 13 in active service as of 2019.
United States – Formerly used by US Navy, retired in 1995.
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Patrol Boat, River equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Panama
Philippines
ThailandReported count for Mk II-class PBR. Service scope: Royal Thai Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 32. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
United States
VietnamKhmer Republic, Panama, Philippines, South Vietnam, Vietnam, Thailand, United States
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