CB90-class fast assault craft
Combat Boat 90 ( CB90 ), German: " Combat Boot 90 " is the international designation of an originally developed for the Swedish Navy speedboat class. The battle boats of this class include characterized by an extremely high mobility. The official name of the Swedish Navy was Strb 90 H ( Swedish for: Stridsbåt 1990 Halv pluton, German about: fighting boat 1990 for a half-move ).
Manufacturer
Manufacturer is founded in 1905, Swedish Dockstavarvet shipyard. She produced since 1991 up to now about 250 to 300 pieces. The CB90 is the main product of this shipyard. In 2000 Dockstavarvet also took Rindö, the main repair company for the Swedish CB90.
2013 was supported by the Russian Pella Shipyard near St. Petersburg, the Russian battle boat 03160 "Raptor" designed so that the CB is strikingly similar. However, there is no evidence whether Dockstavarvet was involved in the project and has granted a license to the Pella Shipyard.
Specifications
The boats are wide over all 15,90 meter long (on the waterline 14.90 meters) and 3.80 meters. They are built by aluminum very light, compact and flat. The draft is only 80 cm, so that the boat can operate very close to the coast. The empty weight is 13 tonnes, the standard weight 15.3 tons, the weight of a full load of 20.5 tonnes.
The Combat Boat 90 are equipped with two Kamewa FF water jet drives that are powered by two 480 kW Scania DSI14 V8 diesel engines. You can reach a speed of about 40 knots. The steerable within limits Wasserjetantrieb and a special Unterwasserleitprofil the hull require an extremely good maneuverability even at high speed. The boat can stop very quickly, the braking distance from the maximum speed to zero is only about two and a half boat lengths.
Crew and equipment
In addition to two skippers and one machine can up to 21 people strong amphibious combat unit be included together with full equipment. The military type CB90 is equipped with three heavy machine guns of the type Browning M2HB, a MK- 19 automatic grenade launchers, mines four or six depth charges. It can also serve as missile carrier vehicle such as for the AGM-114 Hellfire can be used. The type CB90H used by the police wears no military armament.
Use
The boat was originally developed for the Swedish Navy, where it is used in amphibious corps. It is also used internationally in numerous variants: the Swedish police (type CB90H ), and the Navy of Norway ( there as S90N ), Greece, Estonia, Mexico (type CB90HMN ) and Malaysia.
Use in Germany
The CB90HEX came to Germany for the first time in the context of Bush 's visit in 2006 in Heiligendamm used. A further application was made at the G8 summit in 2007. The water police Mecklenburg- Vorpommern had borrowed a boat from the Swedish shipyard for the occasion. It has been used on 7 June 2007 against Greenpeace activists who had entered with seven rubber boats from the sea in the security zone around the venue. The Combat Boat rammed during a chase a Greenpeace inflatable boat, while the crew went overboard, but was able to swim back to the boat.