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'''Fast attack craft (FAC)''' are naval vessels that have been termed "eggshells with sledgehamm

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*'''P''': [[Fast attack craft]], possibly other vessels for [[littoral (military)|littoral warfare]]

...damage after [[USS South Dakota]] was put out of action. When American [[fast attack craft|PT boats]] moved to attack the unidentified battleships, he radioed, ""This

...om above creates holes that let in air, while torpedo holes let in water. Fast attack craft were generally used for coastal defense and did not need to be able to cope

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...ith sledgehammers". These were the first example of what is now known as [[fast attack craft]], which may now be armed with [[guided missile]]s. Since [[battleship]]s a

He also patrolled around [[Papua New Guinea]] in [[fast attack craft|motor torpedo (PT) boats]]. In the [[Guadalcanal Campaigh]], made three tri

In the First World War, he was a successful commander of gunboats and [[fast attack craft]]. <ref>{{citation

...orces in the [[Republic of Vietnam]] (South Vietnam). Two attacks by DRV [[fast attack craft]] were described to the Congress, one on the lone destroyer USS ''Maddox'', ...assumption of the incident were that North Vietnamese naval vessels of a [[fast attack craft]] type, had attacked U.S. [[destroyer]]s, in international waters of the Gu

...attleships, four heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, 29 destroyers and 39 fast attack craft|PT boats. To pass the strait and reach the landings, Nishimura had to run t

While aircraft attacked North Vietnamese fast attack craft in international waters, Operation PIERCE ARROW was the formal name for the

...AC), which is equivalent to a [[carrier-capable]] aircraft rather than a [[fast attack craft]] fight in hundreds or thousands, like the largest carrier battles of the [

...to battleships began, in the early 20th century, with [[torpedo]]es from [[fast attack craft]] and [[mine (naval)|mines]]. These [[#The underwater threat|underwater thr ...s a tertiary battery of medium guns for such purposes as defense against [[fast attack craft]]. Some have suggested that the USS ''Monitor'' might have been the prototy

...has been called "torpedo boat" and exists in new forms generically called fast attack craft. ...-launched missiles are considered an effective anti-surface weapon against fast attack craft and smaller vessels. The surface-to-surface capability of the RIM-156 Stand

..., expensive warships optimized for open-ocean operations. As opposed to [[fast attack craft]], it is capable of transoceanic voyages to reach its operational area, bu

...an Navy]], however, made several attacks against the invasion fleet with [[fast attack craft|torpedo boats]] and [[submarines]], sinking several [[warships]] and transp

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