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The Offshore Raiding Craft (ORC) is a small, fast boat used by the
Royal Marines
The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious light infantry and also one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy. The Corps of Royal Marine ...
for troop insertion, and patrols.
The ORC is primarily used when undertaking strategic raiding missions, where speed and
covertness
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is desired. However, it is equally capable when conducting larger scale
amphibious operations
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. Through history the operations were conducted ...
alongside the larger and more traditional
LCACs,
LCUs and
LCVPs.
[Royal Marines - Landing Craft](_blank)
royalnavy.mod.uk, Retrieved 15 June 2014
See also
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List of active Royal Marines military watercraft
List of active Royal Marines military watercraft is a list of landing craft and other watercraft in service with the Royal Marines. It consist of a varied fleet of transport vessels, patrol vessels and special forces watercraft (I.e mini submari ...
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Combat Rubber Raiding Craft
The Zodiac Milpro Futura Commando 470 or in short FC470 Combat Rubber Raiding Craft (CRRC), also known as the "Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Craft," is a specially fabricated rubber inflatable boat often used by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps ...
References
External links
Royal Marines - Landing Craft(royalnavy.mod.uk)
Video - HMS ''Bulwark'' - Offshore Raiding Craft(youtube.com)
Amphibious warfare vessels of the United Kingdom
Landing craft
Royal Marines
Military boats
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