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Inspections of Cyclone-class patrol coastal (PC) vessels homeported in Bahrain and Norfolk, Va., have revealed significant structural damage. Tuesday, June 17, 2025 🔍 ...
The U.S. Navy retired three Cyclone-class patrol boats in ceremonies this week as it reduces the number of vessels in the class from 13 to zero.
The US Navy announced today it has found "significant structural" damage and corrosion in its fleet of Cyclone-class patrol coastal vessels based in Norfolk, Va., and forward deployed to the 5th ...
The Navy’s 13 Cyclone-class patrol boats — also known as “PCs” for “patrol, coastal” — each displace just 330 tons of water.An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, by contrast, displaces ...
Gigantic warships equipped with massive amounts of firepower, like Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Nimitz-class carriers, immediately spring to mind when we think "United States Navy." But not ...
The USN decommissioned two Cyclone-class coastal patrol ships on 28 March and announced their transfer to the Philippine Navy (PN) on the same day.. The pair of vessels is USS Monsoon and USS Chinook, ...
The Navy’s 13 Cyclone-class patrol boats — also known as “PCs” for “patrol, coastal” — each displace just 330 tons of water.An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, by contrast, displaces ...
The two final Cyclone-class patrol ships (PC) arrived in Bahrain this week, bringing the total PC count in U.S. 5 th Fleet to ten, the service announced on Wednesday.
Three more U.S. ships were harassed by Iranian patrol boats over three incidents on Wednesday, ... Cyclone-class patrol craft USS Tempest (PC-2) and USS Squall (PC-7) ...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. on Monday called the two newly commissioned Alvarez-class patrol vessels (formerly the Cyclone-class patrol vessels in the US ...
The Philippine Navy (PN) has expressed interest in acquiring some of the Cyclone-class patrol vessels recently decommissioned by the US Navy (USN), according to a 9 April report by the state-owned ...
The USS Sirocco, a Cyclone-class patrol ship, and the USNS Choctaw County, a fast transport vessel, were in routine transit through international waters in the Persian Gulf when three Iranian ...