That's the free music selection for youtube videos. I thought it was the intro for how to beat the claw machine at an arcade, or how to tint your car windows. Or how to fit 400 50 cals on your patrol boat.
@BRAVOZULU DWEST boathouse Not sure what your going on about. If its the even that happened a few years back where a US ship VIOLATED Iranian waters and the crew was DETAINED for it. I don't see how that has anything what so ever to do with Obama. Like I said the US ship violated Iranian water, the US vessel was stopped and detained by the Iranian Navy. ONCE both sides concluded it was a simple navigation mistake and there was no malicious intent on either side the America crew and vessel were released. They didn't "surrender" And Obama had absolutely NOTHING to do with the situation. Are you seriously so cognitively deficient you think a Cpt. of a PT boat just has the commander in chiefs personal phone number and just calls him up saying "Hey theres some Iranians following us....what do?" Obama did NOT give them their orders. Its standard practice to just comply and try to deescalate the situation instead of being a dumb fucking arrogant american and potentially causing an International Crisis. And make no mistake of it I'am by NO stretch of the imagination a supporter of Obama or the Democratic party but Idiots like you just make anyone who doesn't like Obama sound/look like a dumb fucking inbreed trailer trash hick.
@@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN as you were triggered by this comment im triggered by your name . tyrannosaurus has been dead for millions of years do too sexual restraints do to a tiny phallic member. please respect the dead..... also the boat died and the OIC was gutless and surrendered 2 crafts. if you don't know what OIC means without googling it your opinion on this matter is pointless.... I can Keyboard WARRIOR to
@@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN Wouldn't have navigation mistakes with a paper chart, and a commanding officer that failed to ensure the engines on the boats were fixed.
Great presentation Lt. Bue, it sure is a nice vessel. What is nicer is knowing we have great men like Lt. Bue serving our Navy. Thank you for your service Lt. Bue, God Bless you and God Bless the US.
These things are so badass. Looks real good and armed heavily. I love seeing these things on my way to work. They don't look big at all. Tons of space in there tho
There u go!.......That's what we have needed on the Somalia coast to deal with pirates.......A modern version of the WW2 P,T. Boat.......Good Show Navy..
I had a dream last night that I joined the navy and ever since then I’ve been Upsessed with it, I got 2 medals straight away. I was the most proudest thing on earth
It’s good to hear from someone with actual tactical experience! Definitely needed this platform to protect against unconventional, non-state aggressors. Excellent!
@Stealthy Raccoon PT Boats aren't really designed with firepower in mind, they could fight another PT boat, or a kayak, but not much else. Really their main purpose would be recon and checking small boats for smugglers.
@Stealthy Raccoon Four .50 Cal Machine Guns on manual mounts, A 30mm gun? forward and 2 more remote .50 cals. Good enough to take on Pirates and the Iranian Navy.
When I retired from active duty my last command was with the riverines. They were just beginning to plan and request funding for this platform. I'd like to take a trip out with them to see how they compared to the boats we had in Riverine Squadron One.
My father served in the Navy from 1953 to 1957 most of his time he was a mechanic on 63 foot minesweeper. He would’ve loved this Vesseland working on the motors and the drives👍🇺🇸🇺🇸⛴⚓️⚓️⚓️
Thank you for a great video! And thank you for your comments about paper charts (around 2:20). I have great sophisticated electronics on my boat, but I still carry paper charts (and nav-tools) for everywhere I will be in the boat. All electronics can fail; paper charts and a basic compass will not. (A wise contributor to ClassicParker boating website is fond of saying, Everything on your boat is broken, you just don't know it, yet"...)
Sure beats the heck out of the 27' Boston Whalers we had in Bahrain in the 90's. 4 crew, Boat Captain, Bow and Stern Hook and Coxswain. Vigilant 901. I still miss my friends. My Boat Captain? BM3 Jennifer Merritt.
As a Cavalry and Infantry grunt, I couldn't have ever handled life as a squid on a ship, I would have lost my damn mind and eaten the paint off the walls. But man, I would have handed in the magic socket driver to my Bradley to be a coxswain (lol, I just wanted to say it) on a Navy Mk 6 or Puddle Pirate MLB in a heartbeat. A Brown Water, Small Craft career would have been very appealing. And while I'm on the subject, and in complete contravention to normal intra-service rivalry SOP in the joint environment, much love to the Coasties and Sailors who patrolled the Tigris and Euphrates next to us in OIF. You guys shoot bad guys good.
What a high tech gun boat, fully automation and remote. With the 1981 25 mm chain guns, it has some fire power. But to my great surprise, there are two .50 caliber MG originated from the 1911 Browning M2. I am glad my favor heavy MG is still in service.
Thank you for the tour of your boat. Happy to see the modern high tech that goes to sea. I served during Vietnam and the US Navy was still using WWII ships and technology.
He's right^ It's a dummy cord in the case that the picatinny mount on the PEQ-16 fails. The Screws on the mounts aren't very sturdy when they're rattling constantly.
I was a Boat Captain and Patrol Officer on River Patrol Boats (PBR) One B-40 (RPG-7) hit in the forward Deck House, with five stations grouped together would be a Bad Day.
You have my most sincere respect for doing a tough job in hard circumstances. I thought the B-40 was a copy of the RPG-2 though? Nevertheless, you've made a good observation there, and to make it worse, it seems that the powerplant is right beneath the forward Deck House, so any hit in that area could leave the boat sitting dead in the water either way. It looks like the designers may have made the mistake of clustering too many vital systems and personnel in the same space, but hopefully that's also where they put the armor protection.
Need at least 2 MK 19 auto grenade launchers(prefer 4) to go with those .50's. Of course the MK19's would have HE as well as AP and anti personnel rounds. I would also consider having some side mounted torpedo tubes for large targets.
@ there are a few that I could name that out perform the legendary and amazomg Ma Deuce. However I will only name one as I am quite sleepy and my mind isn't really awake. The GAU 19/b a tripple barrel 50. Cal hmg. It carries more ammo, it fires twice as fast, and wighs a quarter less.
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Conner Ragan you must be really sleepy because I reference that gun in my comment.
Idk why I always just figured patrol boats stayed the same as we had them on WW2, I never expected these things to look like the new shops the Navy is getting. They look very cool.
Lubecer 74 really ? I did drug interdiction on a ship a lot slower than that. Not all drug boats do 40+ knots. We sank a ship capable of doing a max of 15 knots carrying several tons of coke. Just saying
It's good to see we have a modern version of the PT boat. I especially like that little ditch in the side for people to get on/off the boat. That looks extremely convenient and versatile. That thing looks really fun. I want to go out on patrol in one of those, maybe shoot at some targets, fend off the aliens, you know the usual.
The Navy uses DOZENS of STRB 90's so I'm sure you're right. It was a pair of River Command Boats (what the US calls the STRB 90) that the Iranians took into custody after one suffered an engine failure and drifted into Iranian waters.
These are actually really cool boats I work for the military maintaining army boats. The company that made these boats were next door to my facility and later docked them at our pier. I watched them install all the weapon systems, they pack a lot of firepower even got a tour on them.
These boats will be instrumental and very much in demand for escort duties whenever a Navy ship enters or leaves possibly hazardous ports, whenever an aircraft carrier battle group transits the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Gibraltar and other choke points. It could also assist in anti-piracy missions. The Navy could incorporate a "mother" ship in the form of an amphibious assault ship for groups of several Mark VI patrol boats operating in a particular area. The Iranian Navy would be extremely foolish to try to interfere with the operations of these Mark VI boats, especially now that a totally new hardline doctrine has been established. What this boat needs is a small hand-held missile system, which I believe it probably already has.
I think these ships may be meant for shallower waters. An Amphibious Assault Ship would have a much larger draft than 4 feet. This ship appears to be a Littoral Combat Ship. Those are meant for shallow water patrol. However, I could see how loading a few of these ships with Marines could make for a very threatening boarding force.
Those are not the purposes of these very small boats. I spent over 24 years in the Navy, so I have sound knowledge of naval operations. After 9/11, the U.S. Navy really upped its defensive posture, especially when it's ships enter or leave port, or are moored or anchored in port. And that is precisely what these very small boats are going to be used for. The U.S. Navy already has similar small boats, and these new boats will be their modern, improved replacements.
Makes sense. But it would really suck to have to go in deep waters with a 4-foot draft, and then have a storm crop up. Take it from me, a 6-foot draft can be bad enough. I only wonder how they'll transport these. With that draft, trans-oceanic voyages would be extremely dangerous, plus the apparent lack of racks, and the relatively short range. I know the Navy has supply ships, but I don't think that's quite what they're designed for. Thoughts on that? (By the way, what was your rank/rate?)
Yes, it does. Aluminum and Kevlar in the hull along with a ballistic material in the RIB (the "flotation ring" around the outside of the boat). Most military RIBs have ballistic protection for small arms.
@@WiseSilverWolf The armor will keep the crew alive in a non full-scale war, so in this regard, it serves its purpose. If you need protection from torpedoes, and missiles, then the larger Destroyers, and Frigates, have already failed at their jobs. I could be wrong about the armor, as it's likely meant to protect against anything smaller than a LRASM. Best way to find out? Decommission one, and start shooting it. lol
Back in the 80s we had the PHMs or Patrol Hydrofoils. The navy spent millions developing them and then they couldn't figure out what to do with them. I hope they have better luck with these.
They can mount MK50s(?)(the ones our Helos carry for ASW) using a special mount. They can also mount Hellfire missiles, Griffin Missiles, Penguin Missiles, and Stinger Missiles...all from a variety of mounts the Navy has been playing with. I liked the BAE proposed mount which incorporated a MK38 25mm Gun Mount (the 25mm cannon shown on the boats in the video) featuring dual feeds (to select from two different ammo types) with two Quad Missile Launchers on either side of the cannon, allowing you to carry either two different missiles (with 4 rounds each) or 8 missiles of one type.
We wonder if the MK VI pilot cabin and windows bullet proof as much as the engine and fuel tanks. These boats are meant to get in close to other ships or operate in the littoral, and thus must be capable of withstanding heavy fire to carry out their mission. The technology and sensor systems on the MK VI are impressive, but any ship that operates this close to a threat must be able to withstand fire.
Little overkill for that boat but I love the GAU-8 as well, the Vulcan cannon, the 20mm could work though for serious anti piracy and then bring in a slightly larger craft w 2 GAU-8s as support. Some navies use the GAU-8 as a CWIS and call it Goalkeeper but use a 21mm sabo instead of the full 30mm round. The Vulcan is part of the Phalanx CWIS, gotta love rotary cannons !!
Would be nice if they could add a 30 Mike Mike on the back of the boat . I am ol Army gun bunny 8 Inch Howitzer. I saw a video on SWCC those sailors have one bad ass boat with more fire power
So I saw, but there are a few unprotected and manually operated 240s on the top deck that concerned me. However in another video about this boat model, I noticed that there ARE indeed chickenshields protecting the gunners. Just a case of an over protective Army looking out for its little sister service(s).
Guys, I'm not trying to put down the system nor the Navy (well, at least not TOO much on the later), it is an outstanding boat. However, there are similarity between the Boat and our equipment in the Cavalry (CAV). This idea is range and protection of the crew. With the old ACAV (a M-113 derivative) there were three gunners; two with 7.62 and on the commander manning the 50 cal. Arcs of fire had to be established not only from the vehicle, but also with supporting "Tracks". Jumping ahead a few years to the M-1 Abrams, we find a similar system this time with what the Navy would consider a 4 inch gun (Closer to a 5 inch) plus three MGs (two 7.62s and one 50 cal). Yet despite the outstanding firepower, the Abrams alone is still vulnerable. Tactics have been developed that involve a page out of the Air Force's manual: Our Tankers use the Wingman Concept. Moving on to a provable engagement scenario in the Persian Gulf, the Crew of this Boat will not just be facing one or two armed speedboats, but dozens. Each putting out as much lead as possible to suppress the crew of the Mark VI, therefore crew protection is important for the guys manning the boat to survive and accomplish their mission. Finally, lets put my sentiments in the proper perspective: GO ARMY....SAVE THE SQUIDS! ; )
I know the Navy developed the Mk5 probably 10 years ago which was specifically for SEAL Teams. This Mk 6 looks like a huge upgrade for SEALs and looks like it can preform other missions and not just be for one use like the MK 5.
Patrol surface support variant .... remove bow gun turret, replace with single mk 48 tube down the center. Add a lightweight torp along each side of boat. Total of 3. Remove the 20+ troop seats and replace with 4x Marte ER .
ACE Champion ikr that shit was embarrassing to see on the news, but still they were surrounded by multiple bass boats who were ready to start ww3 over nothin :(
2:35 paper charts are not unique to the US navy. I know for a fact that both Russian and Israeli navies train with and use paper charts in parallel with computer based systems. Computers and comms can be disabled.
@@derubermuller5971 Its a pretty big boat with a lot of space and the paper charts are not that big and can be easily divided by quadrants. So any foldable table can do the work. Even the one at the navigator station if you put the keyboard aside.
