Dabur-class patrol boat

The Dabur class, named for the Hebrew word for hornet, is a class of patrol boats originally built at the Sewart Seacraft shipyard, now Swiftships, in the United States for the Israeli Navy, and later constructed by the Ramta division of Israel Aerospace Industries. Twelve hulls were built by Swiftships in Morgan City, Louisiana and 22 more by IAI-Ramta, for a total of 34. The boats have an aluminum hull, a displacement of 35 tons or 45 tons loaded, a length of 19.8 metres and a crew of six to eight. Two General Motors 12V71TN diesel engines of 2,400 horsepower drive two shafts for a maximum speed of 22 knots. The class was designed to be light enough to be carried overland, was first used in battle in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, and was exported to Argentina, Chile, Fiji, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka and others.