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Home» News»ARES Shipyard delivers first ARES 85 Hercules Fast Patrol Craft to Oman
First ARES Hercules 85 Fast Patrol Craft delivered to ROPCG (Credit : ARES Shipyard)

ARES Shipyard delivers first ARES 85 Hercules Fast Patrol Craft to Oman

ARES Shipyard has recently delivered the first ARES 85 HERCULES patrol craft to the Royal Oman Police Coast Guard (ROPCG), the Turkish shipyard announced.

Nathan Gain 18 Dec 2019

ARES Shipyard press release

The shipyard had signed the contract to supply 14-off ARES 85 Hercules Fast Patrol Craft to ROPCG to be delivered within a four-year acquisition program. It is also known as the first naval export program to Sultanate of Oman ever accomplished in Turkish Republic history.

ARES 85 Hercules is capable of achieving high speed levels of up to 55 knots which will be used to patrol and secure the nation’s waters, to prevent arms and drug trafficking as well as illegal immigration and to control human trafficking in the Gulf of Oman. Along with its 12.7-mm auto stabilized remote controlled naval gun to provide versatile firepower that can be adapted to a wide variety of potential scenarios; the vessel has a suite of naval communications equipment, electro optic (E/O) sensors and X-band naval radars. The vessel can launch and recover a military type RHIB for boarding and SAR missions.

Moreover, the shipyard has been providing extensive operator and maintenance trainings to over 200 personnel of ROPCG for approximately 300 days within the shipbuilding program via ARES engineers, specialized and certified tactical trainers. The vessels will be delivered with 7-year hull warranty and an onsite ARES team of engineers will provide 24/7 warranty engineering and technical support to the end users in Oman.

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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