A list of classes of

missile boat A missile boat or missile cutter is a small, fast warship armed with anti-ship missiles. Being smaller than other warships such as destroyers and frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They a ...

s used by naval forces around the world.

China

* Houbei class (Type 022), the first combat vessel with a

catamaran A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stab ...

hull. * *

Croatia

Egypt

* Ambassador MK III class * *

Finland

* - modified version of the Osa class * * *

France

* La Combattante II type fast attack craft - built for export * - built for export

Germany

* - exported to Greece, Chile and Egypt * *

Greece

* ''Roussen'' class (Super-Vita) - Used by the

Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy (HN; el, Πολεμικό Ναυτικό, Polemikó Naftikó, War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of vari ...

* La Combattante IIIb class - Modified and upgraded version of the French La Combattante III class. * *

India

* Next Generation Fast Attack Crafts (NGFACs)

Indonesia

* * * *

Iran

* Thondar class * Kaman class

Israel

Sa'ar 3-class missile boat The Sa'ar 3 class ("Cherbourg") is a series of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Amiot Shipyard based on an Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's . They are also known as the stars of Cherbourg. Design and development ...

Sa'ar 4-class missile boat The Sa'ar 4 or ''Reshef''-class missile boats were a series of missile boats built based on Israeli Navy designs grounded in accumulated experience derived in the operation of "Cherbourg" (Sa'ar 1, Sa'ar 2, and ) classes. Thirteen were b ...

used by Israel, with variants also in service in South Africa,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

and a small number of other countries. * Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat used by Israel, with variants also in service in Mexico and Greece.

Italy

Sparviero class patrol boat The ''Sparviero'' class, also known as the ''Nibbio'' class, are small hydrofoil missile boats capable of traveling at speeds of . They were designed for and formerly used by the Italian Navy. The Japanese 1-go class missile boat is an updated ve ...

class seven now decommissioned Hydrofoils

Japan

* - based on *

Korea, North

Korea, South

Malaysia

* Handalan class * Perdana class

Norway

* Skjold - used by Norway, a stealthy surface effect catamaran

Pakistan

* Azmat class - based on Type 037II Houjian-class missile boat * Jalalat II class * Jurrat class(improved Jalalat II class)

Philippines

* Multi-purpose Attack Craft Mk. 3 * Nestor Acero-class Fast Attack Interdiction Craft

Russia/USSR

Komar-class missile boat The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as the Komar class, its NATO reporting name, meaning "mosquito", is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another sh ...

- The world's first missile boat, widely exported *

Osa-class missile boat The Project 205 Moskit (''mosquito'') more commonly known by their NATO reporting name Osa, are a class of missile boats developed for the Soviet Navy in the late 1950s. Until 1962 this was classified as a large torpedo boat. The Osa class is ...

- probably the worlds numerous missile boat, widely exported *

Matka-class missile boat The Matka class is the NATO reporting name for a group of hydrofoil missile boats built for the Soviet Navy ( Baltic Fleet and Black Sea Fleet). The Soviet designation was Project 206MR Vikhr. Following the 1997 Black Sea Fleet partition tr ...

- hydrofoil missile boat * Sarancha-class missile boat - hydrofoil missile boat

Sweden

* Stockholm class * Göteborg class * Visby class

Taiwan

Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat The Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat is a type of missile boat in service with the Republic of China Navy (ROCN). The prototype was launched in 2003, and the boat first entered service by 2010. Project history The Kuang Hua VI project was first un ...

- Indigenously developed for Taiwan's navy * Hai Ou-class missile boat - based on Dvora-class *

Dvora-class fast patrol boat The Dvora-class fast patrol boat is a fast class of patrol boats built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Israeli Sea Corps based on the Israeli . Operational history Sri Lanka The Dvora class has become the work horse of the Sri Lanka ...

- Israeli design, armed with missiles by Taiwan

Thailand

* Ratcharit - used by Thailand, a fast attack missile boat

Turkey

* Kılıç - used by Turkey, a fast attack missile boat * Rüzgar class fast attack craft * Doğan class fast attack craft *

Kartal class The ''Kartal'' class is a class of fast attack missile and torpedo boats of the Turkish Navy. The vessels of this class were built by Lürssen Werft in Germany, and were based on the . However, unlike the ''Zobel'' class, which were armed wit ...

United States

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class, hydrofoils, all six now decommissioned

Vietnam

* BPS-500 class missile boat

Yugoslavia

* *

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