Calling Navy experts ..."tank boat"? Is that a new thing?

[Sylvain]

The title says it all.
A company is Indonesia recently launched a patrol boat called "tank boat". I imagine it can't be a new thing, an armored boat with a tank-like turret.

Is there something similar in the US Navy?

 

[rob63]

I know we used to have one, so certainly not a new thing.

As a side note; the terms used in tanks like "turret, hull, sponsons" came about because the first tank project in WWI originated inside the Royal Navy rather than the Army. It was approved by a maverick named Winston Churchill.

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[bobzilla]

I mean....

 

[r3126]

The title says it all.
A company is Indonesia recently launched a patrol boat called "tank boat". I imagine it can't be a new thing, an armored boat with a tank-like turret.

Is there something similar in the US Navy?

I suspect we have somewhat similar boats; not so well armed however. The SE Asian area is ideally suited for littoral warfare. Defined as warfare in the transitional area between uplands and open water. The Navy and the Marine are early in the development and application of littoral warfare; not so much for defense efforts as for preparation for further combat experiences abroad. Sort of like what we used to call "riverine units". Just my 2 cents.

 

[indyartisan]

Vietnam era Monitor

 

[jerrob]

The pic Bobzilla posted looks like it took a healthy **** and that Indonesian "tank boat" is what was left floating in the bowl.

Nice job with the rattle can paint job, ya never know when you'll need to hide your tank boat in the woods, lol.

 

[actaeon277]

Navy ships have had turrets since... forever.
Some guns were in turrets, some weren't.
Over time, they have mostly evolved to all being in turrets.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I approve of the boat and sport ute having the same camo pattern.

 

[Hawkeye]

I read some accounts of Armor in VN. In one the USA put an M-48(a)3 (I think it was) in an LCT and patrolled it in the shallow waters along a section of coast. Used its gazillion candle power Xenon searchlight and 90mm cannon to good effect on the VC on the beach. And they could always land the beast on the sand if the situation called for it.

 

[Creedmoor]

Wow a split hull, how 1980's.

Marines have had boats that drive on land when necessary. The turret can have a TOW Missile system, 25mm chain gun, 85mm mortar and a host of other weapons systems over the last 40 years.

 

[IN New Guy]

Shouldn't it be painted blue, or gray, or something besides desert camo?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a36354997/indonesia-tank-boat/

 

[gregkl]

Cool boat.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

1960's Soviet Project 206 patrol boat with two twin 30mm turrets.

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[Sylvain]

Shouldn't it be painted blue, or gray, or something besides desert camo?

It's a boat to patrol the coast line, or a river ... so it's often against a foliage background.

Same thing in the US Navy. They have some kind of woodland camo on their river boats.

 

[Leadeye]

I wonder what the armor is capable of stopping.

 

[Tryin']

I wonder what the armor is capable of stopping.

Orbeez

 

[Dentoro]

Orbeez

Does it stop them or is it just Orbeez resistant?

 

[IN New Guy]

It's a boat to patrol the coast line, or a river ... so it's often against a foliage background.

Same thing in the US Navy. They have some kind of woodland camo on their river boats.

Got it! Just thought it was strange it was in desert camo and not woodland/jungle camo...it being in Indonesia.

 

[ljk]

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[actaeon277]

Anyone know about the razzle dazzle patterns used as a form of camouflage?
Disrupting visual range estimates more than hiding