The
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, m ...
(USCG) Short Range Prosecutor is a 7-meter, high speed launch designed to be launched from cutters, at speed, from a
stern launching ramp
Some modern patrol vessels are equipped with a stern launching ramp, for deploying smaller rescue or pursuit boats without requiring the parent ship to first come to a halt.
Typically the smaller craft are powered by water-jets, and can dri ...
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The Short Range Prosecutor is a
rigid-hull inflatable, powered by
water-jets, for intercepting and boarding suspect vessels. It mounts a radar and special shock-proof seats, and can travel at 30 knots.
The refitted
Island class Patrol cutters, part of the
Deepwater program, were each to carry one Short Range Prosecutor. The
Marine Protector cutter
The Marine Protector class is a class of coastal patrol boats of the United States Coast Guard.
The 87-foot-long vessels are based on the Stan 2600 design by Damen Group, and were built by Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, Louisiana. Each boa ...
s each carry one Short Range Prosecutor.
The new
Sentinel class cutter
The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. At it is similar to, but larger than the lengthened 1980s-era s that it replaces. Up to 58 ve ...
s will carry one Short Range Prosecutor.
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The
National Security Cutters
will have a rear launching ramps, and will carry two launches, either two Short Range Prosecutors, or two of the larger
USCG Long Range Interceptors, or one of each.
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*Length: 25 ft (7 m)
*Displacement: 5600
lb (2.54 t)
*Capacity: maximum 10 people
*Speed: 33 kn
*Range: 400 nmi
*Endurance: 10 h
*Armament:
M240 machine gun
The M240 – officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240 – is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.
The M240 has been used by t ...
*Propulsion: 2
diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-cal ...
s with
water jet engine
See also
Boats of similar role and configuration:
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Pacific 24
The Pacific 24 is a rigid inflatable boat made by BAE Systems in the UK, one of a range of small boats made by the company. it was the latest Pacific craft within the BAE Halmatic range, and has been proven in service with the UK MOD, UK polic ...
References
Short Range Prosecutor
Short Range Prosecutor
SHort Range Prosecutor
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