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Encyclopedia > Missile boat

This is for the type of warship. For other uses of Missile Boat, see Missile Boat (disambiguation) For the type of warship: Missile boat For the spacecraft from the Lucasarts X-Wing series: Missile Gunboat ...

Missile boat FNS Hamina of the Finnish Navy.

A Missile Boat is a small craft armed with anti-ship missiles. Being small craft, missile boats are popular with nations that are looking for an inexpensive navy. They are similar in idea to the torpedo boats of World War II; in fact, the first missile boats were modified torpedo boats replacing two or more torpedo tubes with missile tubes. Image File history File links FNS_Hamina. ... Image File history File links FNS_Hamina. ... Finnish Naval Ensign The Finnish Navy (Finnish: Suomen merivoimat) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. ... RBS-15 missile launched from a Sisu missile carriage. ... A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...


The doctrine behind the use of missile boats is based on the principle of mobility over defence. The advent of proper missile and electronic counter measure technologies gave birth to the idea, that because a missile is far more accurate than a shell and can penetrate even the most heavily armored ship hulls, warships should now be designed to outmanuever their enemies and get to a better position first. With the correct intelligence, a fast missile boat may be able to effectively "dodge" an incoming missile.[citation needed] Military doctrine is a level of military planning between national strategy and unit-level tactics, techniques, and procedures. ... Exocet missile in flight A missile (see also pronunciation differences) is a projectile propelled as a weapon at a target. ... Mobility is the ability and willingness to move or change; this can depend on motor skills; mobility aids may be needed such as a walking stick, walker, mobile standing frame, power operated vehicle/scooter, wheelchair or white cane for visual impairment. ... Electronic warfare (EW) has three main components: Electronic Attack (EA) This is the active use of the electromagnetic spectrum to deny its use by an adversary. ... IDEA may refer to: Electronic Directory of the European Institutions IDEA League Improvement and Development Agency Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Indian Distance Education Association Integrated Data Environments Australia Intelligent Database Environment for Advanced Applications IntelliJ IDEA - a Java IDE Interactive Database for Energy-efficient Architecture International IDEA (International Institute... A shell is a projectile, which, as opposed to a bullet, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage includes large solid projectiles previously termed shot (AP, APCR, APCNR, APDS, APFSDS and Proof shot). ... USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... Intelligence (abbreviated or ) is the process and the result of gathering information and analyzing it to answer questions or obtain advance warnings needed to plan for the future. ...


The first use of Missile boats was by the Egyptian Soviet-built Komar class craft fire of four SS-N-2 Styx missiles on the Israeli destroyer Eilat on October 20, 1967, shortly after the Six Day War, causing the latter's sinking with 47 dead. “CCCP” redirects here. ... The NATO reporting name Styx or SS-N-2 was used for a type of missile developed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The 1967 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Six-Day War or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. ...


The first naval missile battles between missile boats occurred between the Israel Navy (using indigenously-developed Gabriel missiles), and Syrian and Egyptian craft during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War. The first of these engagements became known as the Battle of Latakia. In these battles, some fifty Gabriels and a similar number of Styx missiles were fired, and seven Arab craft were sunk. Operational areas of the Israel Navy: Mediterranean Sea (north), Gulf of Aqaba (east), Red Sea (south), Gulf of Suez (west), viewed from Space Shuttle STS-40. ... The Gabriel missile was devoloped it in 1962 and is used as a sea to sea missle. ... Combatants Israel Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq Aided By Saudi Arabia Pakistan Cuba Uganda Libya, Commanders Moshe Dayan, David Elazar, Ariel Sharon, Shmuel Gonen, Benjamin Peled, Israel Tal, Rehavam Zeevi, Aharon Yariv, Yitzhak Hofi, Rafael Eitan, Abraham Adan, Yanush Ben Gal Saad El Shazly, Ahmad Ismail Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed Aly... The Battle of Latakia was a small but revolutionary naval battle of the Yom Kippur War, fought on October 7, 1973, between Israel and Syria. ...


Another successful use of missile boats was in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, where the Indian Navy launched Operation Trident and Operation Python using Osa class missile boats to target ships and the Karachi harbour[1]. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military conflict between India and Pakistan. ... The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. ... Operation Trident is a Metropolitan Police Service initiative set up to deal with gun crime in Londons black community. ... After independence from the British in 1947, India was divided along the lines of religious majority in to 2 nations, viz. ... Osa I (Project 205) craft The Osa class is the Nato reporting name for a group of Fast attack craft, developed for the Soviet Navy in the early 1960s. ... The logo of the Karachi Port Trust. ...


Examples

Osa I (Project 205) craft The Osa class is the Nato reporting name for a group of Fast attack craft, developed for the Soviet Navy in the early 1960s. ... INS Eilat - Saar 5 class missile boat Saar 5 is an Israeli Navy missile boat, designed based on lessons learnt from the Saar 4. ... The Pegasus class hydrofoils were a series of fast attack patrol boats employed by the U.S. Navy. ... Norwegian missile patrol craft KNM Skjold (P 690) The Skjold class patrol boats are a new superfast missile boats, also known as MTBs (missile torpedo boats). ... Stealth can refer to several things: Look up stealth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A Surface Effect Ship (SES) is a class of ship that has both an air cushion (like a hovercraft) and twin hulls (like a catamaran). ... It has been suggested that Catamaran History be merged into this article or section. ... Visby is a Swedish Navy class of corvettes named after the city of Visby and built by Kockums, Malmö. The class has received widespread international attention because of its stealth capabilities and network-centric design. ... // The design of the 62 metres fast attack craft missile is based on the smaller Vita class crafts already in service with the Qatar Navy and similar-sized craft built for Oman and other countries. ... Kılıç class fast attack missile boat of the Turkish Navy KILIÇ Class is one of the fast attack missile & torpedo boat classes of the Turkish Navy. ...

Other uses

The term Missile Boat is also often used as a slang synonym for a Ballistic Missile Submarine, primarily used by US submariners. It has been proposed below that SSBN be renamed and moved to Ballistic missile submarine. ...


Colloquially, and especially in video gaming, the term is applied to any offensive combat vehicle equipped with an extremely large number of missiles (such as the fictional Missile Boat of the Star Wars: X-Wing game series). “Computer Games” redirects here. ... In the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe, the XM-1 Novawing, commonly known as the Missile Boat was an Imperial starfighter built by Cygnus Spaceworks that was rushed into service to counter Grand Admiral Zaarins TIE Defenders. ...


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  Results from FactBites:
 
Missile boat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (293 words)
A Missile Boat is a form of patrol boat armed with anti-ship missiles.
The first use of missile boats was the Egyptian Soviet-built Komar class craft fire of four SS-N-2 Styx missiles on the Israeli destroyer Eilat on October 20, 1967, shortly after the Six Day War, causing the latter's sinking with 47 dead.
The first naval missile battles between missile boats occurred between the Israel Navy (using indigenously-developed Gabriel missiles), and Syrian and Egyptian craft during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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