Dvora-class fast patrol boat
{{Short description|Israeli Sea Corps patrol class}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Hai Ou Class missile boat.jpg |Ship caption=Republic of China Navy Dvora-class patrol boat }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Dvora class |Builders=*IAI-Ramta,
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The Dvora-class fast patrol boat is a fast class of patrol boats built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Israeli Sea Corps based on the Israeli {{sclass2|Dabur|patrol boat|4}}.
Operational history
= Sri Lanka =
The Dvora class has become the work horse of the Sri Lanka Navy which has deployed it since the mid-1980s to counter LTTE operations at sea. Since then Dvoras have been made in Sri Lanka and has been the basis for the more advanced Colombo class fast patrol boat built by the Colombo Dockyard Limited and used by South Asian navies to counter terrorism. According to former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky, Amy Yaar, another Mossad operative, helped supply the Sri Lankan government with Dvoras to patrol its coasts from attack by the LTTE. Simultaneously, Yaar and her associates were supplying the Tamils with anti-PT boat equipment to use in fighting the government forces. Ostrovsky also alleged that Mossad helped the Sri Lankan government pay for the boats by cheating the World Bank and other investors out of millions of dollars.{{cite journal |last1=Wirspa |first1=Leslie |title=Colombia: Where the guns outrun the mafia |journal=Index on Censorship |date=1991 |volume=20 |issue=10: Secrecy And Arms: Uncovering The Weapons Trade |pages=51–52 |doi=10.1080/03064229108535240 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03064229108535240}}
= Taiwan =
The Republic of China Navy uses Dvoras as Fast Attack Missile Craft, purchasing two and using them as a pattern for the almost-identical, locally-built Hai Ou-class missile boats (Hai Ou class has three propeller shafts whereas Dvora class has two), 50 built. Both classes, being an anti-ship asset, are armed with additional two Hsiung Feng I anti-ship missiles and have been in ROCN service for over 20 years.
Operators
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- Israeli Sea Corps - 9 (Initially 10 were in service, 1 decommissioned after collision with a rocky shoal)
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- Sri Lanka Navy - 4 (2 acquired in 1984 and 4 in 1986; 3 sunk in 1993, 1995 and 1996).{{cite magazine |url=http://www.defence.lk/news/Sri_Lanka_Navy.pdf |title=Sri Lanka learns to counter Sea Tigers' swarm tactics |first=Tim |last=Fish |magazine=Jane's Navy International |pages=20–25 |date=March 2009 |accessdate=22 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223148/http://www.defence.lk/news/Sri_Lanka_Navy.pdf |archivedate=23 September 2015 }}
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- Republic of China Navy - 2 original Dvora acquired in the 1980s and 48 local variant version Hai Ou-class (Seagull), retired beginning in 1999 to 2012 (replaced by 30 Kuang Hua VI-class missile boats); originally 26 with 6 gifted to Gambia and Paraguay.
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- Four units (ex-ROCN/Taiwan Navy FABG-7, FABG-11, FABG-29 and FABG-32) received from Taiwan in 2009 as patrol gunboats. All 4 were originally slated for Republic of Malawi in 2008.
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- Two units (ex-ROCN/Taiwan Navy FABG-1 and FABG-2) received from Taiwan in 1994 as patrol gunboats.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071023102915/http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/dvora/Dvora.html www.israeli-weapons.com]
- [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/taiwan/hai-ou.htm Hai Ou-class [Dvora] Fast Attack Missile Craft, globalsecurity.org]
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{{order of precedence |
before= Dabur|
title= Dvora series|
after= Super Dvora Mk II
}}
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{{Israel Aerospace Industries}}
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Category:Naval ships of Israel
Category:Fast attack craft of the Sri Lanka Navy
Category:Missile boats of the Republic of China Navy
Category:Ships built in the Republic of China
Category:Ships built in Israel
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