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Riverine patrol boat
Patrol Craft Fast is a riverine patrol boat. It was built by Sewart Seacraft (now Swiftships). Reported operators include Vietnam.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
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PCF (Patrol Craft Fast)
Sewart Seacraft (now Swiftships)
See Operators
PTF boat
1967-Present
193
5+
4 non-operational 2 operational
Riverine patrol boat
50 ft (15 m) (Mk I) 51 ft (16 m) (Mk II) 94.5 ft (28.8 m) ( Osprey-Class )
13 ft (4.0 m)
3 ft (0.91 m)
2x General Motors 12V71"N" Detroit marine diesels
32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) (Mk I)
800 km
2x 0.50 caliber machine gun (top) (US-based) 1x 81mm mortar (US-based) 1x Mk 19 (US-based) 1x NSV (Vietnamese-based) 1x DShK (Vietnamese-based) 1x AGS-17 (Vietnamese-based)
Quarter inch thick aluminum hull
Vietnam : Vietnam People's Navy , taken from the former South Vietnam Navy. M2 HMG and other American-installed components replaced with Soviet NSV or DShK and AGS-17 .
Khmer Republic : Khmer National Navy .
Malta : Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta .
Panama : The MN GC-201 Comandante Torrijos and MN GC-202 Presidente Porras acquired from the US in the 1980s for the Panamanian Navy.
Philippines : Philippine Navy & Philippine Coast Guard .
South Vietnam : Republic of Vietnam Navy . Reportedly around 107 Swift boats lost in service with 99 boats captured by North Vietnam.
United States : U.S. Navy
Thailand : Royal Thai Navy .
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Patrol Craft Fast equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
The GambiaReported count for Swift PCF. Service scope: Navy inventory; 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): number: 1. 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.
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