Diciotti-class offshore patrol vessel

The Diciotti class is an Italian-designed offshore patrol vessel built by Fincantieri on the bay of La Spezia, at the Muggiano and Riva Trigoso shipyards. It grew out of the earlier experimental Saettia class, and the Diciotti version is longer and more powerful, which gives it a greater patrol endurance. Boats of the class serve with the Italian Coast Guard, the Armed Forces of Malta, the Iraqi Navy and the National Air and Navy Service of Panama. The Maltese boat, P61, was commissioned in 2005, can land a helicopter as large as an AW139 and has been used to rescue migrants in the central Mediterranean. Iraq ordered four modified boats in 2006 to patrol its short coast, and the first, Fatah, was handed over at Muggiano in 2009. Panama received two boats in 2014. The design also served as the basis for the Falaj 2 class built for the United Arab Emirates.