Small Patrol Boats Patolling Your Neighbourhood

摘要

Though in this era, focus falls mainly on how big or how powerful a naval vessel should be, one must not forget the small vessels too plays an important role in safeguarding the maritime waters especially in heavily congested traffic in coastal areas and harbours. Despite the employment of high-tech safety measures and electronic monitoring, the usage of interceptor or fast boats is still a priority. The navy, marine police and enforcement agencies deploy these boats to patrol the ports, harbours, conduct spot-checks on vessels and dealing with other hostile intents. Inceptor boats are usually special craft designed with additional speed and adequate firepower capabilities. Just like a motorcycle zipping through a heavy traffic, these small boats are able to zip through the shipping lane easily without disrupting traffic flows, yet quick and nimble enough to catch the bad guys. Definition for these special boats however seems to be a bit vague overtime but mostly known as interceptor boats, fast combat boats, fast assault craft or fast patrol boat. This report takes a look at some of the small patrol boats available in the market.