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Response Boat-Small II: Project Profile

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The Response Boat-Small is a multi-mission platform, used for the full range of Coast Guard missions, including: search and rescue; vessel boarding team deployment and law enforcement missions; port security; drug and migrant interdiction and environmental response operations.

Characteristics

• Planned:  up to 500
• Length:  28 feet 6 inches
• Beam:  8 feet 6 inches
• Draft:  1 foot 8 inches
• Displacement:  8,300 pounds
• Maximum Speed:  45+ knots
• Range:  150 nautical miles at cruising speed
• Crew:  up to four

Features

• Functional design and focus on crew comfort
• Standardized communications and navigation suite
• 360 degrees visibility
• State-of-the-art shock-mitigating seats
• Fore and aft gun mounts with a forward shock-mitigating gunners seat
• Crew restraints
• Lowering cabin windows
• 2 NAVNET 3D displays for secondary navigation
• Cabin integrated ballistics panels for crew protection
• Left-side coxswain placement

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