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Home» News»Metal Shark lands additional USCG order for RB-S II boats
The US Coast Guard placed a delivery order on Feb. 4 for 20 response boats-small II (RB-S IIs), worth approximately $8.5 million, with Metal Shark Boats of Jeanerette, Louisiana, the service said on Feb. 15, 2019.
A USCG RB-S II boat (Credit: US Coast Guard)

Metal Shark lands additional USCG order for RB-S II boats

The US Coast Guard placed a delivery order on Feb. 4 for 20 response boats-small II (RB-S IIs), worth approximately $8.5 million, with Metal Shark Boats of Jeanerette, Louisiana, the service said on Feb. 15, 2019.

Naval News Staff 20 Feb 2019

The boats are targeted for delivery starting in May and extending through September; they will be stationed throughout the country in Great Lakes, East, West and Gulf Coast locations. 

This brings the total of RB-S IIs ordered to 370; 339 RB-S IIs have been delivered. 

Before launching the RB-S II program, the US Coast Guard was operating more than 400 Defender-class RB-S boats, making it the largest vessel class in the Coast Guard fleet. The RB-S II, designed with an increased emphasis on function and crew comfort, is gradually replacing the Defender-class RB-S as the older assets reach the end of their service life.

The 29-foot new boats can reach a top speed of over 40 knots. They are being fitted with State-of-the-art shock-mitigating seats, Fore and aft gun mounts with a forward shock-mitigating gunners seat, and two NAVNET 3D displays for secondary navigation

The RB-S II 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.

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