[SandRat]

Navy PING

[bnelson44]

Sailors look good in tan :)

[El Gato]

I think this pic gives a better feel for the Typhoon PC-5 (5th boat of the Cyclone class). Somewhat the modern equivalent, mission wise at least, of the Swift Boat.

The Cyclones are much larger boats than the old Swift Boats (PCFs). The Swifts were 50 feet long with a crew of 6. The Cyclones are 170 feet long, with a crew of 28, (plus potentially 8 Seals or Spec Ops)

[MedicalMess]

Tracking Chinese submarine movements?

[Spruce]

I would bet the sailors doing the boarding leave the M-16s and berreta 9mms. Dollars-to-donoughts says they take 1911s and 12-gauges.

[Grampa Dave]

USS TYPHOON is the fifth CYCLONE - class patrol coastal boat. From November 2001 on, the CYCLONE - class ships were temporarily operated under US Coast Guard control for homeland defense.

General Characteristics: Awarded: August 3, 1990
Keel laid: May 15, 1992
Launched: March 3, 1993
Commissioned: February 12, 1994
Builder: Bollinger Machine Shop & Shipyard, Lockport, Louisiana
Propulsion system:4 Paxman diesels
Propellers: four
Length: 170 feet (51.8 meters)
Beam: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
Draft: 7.5 feet (2.3 meters)
Displacement: approx. 331 tons
Speed: 35 knots
Aircraft: none
Armament: 2 25mm Mk-38 machine guns; 2 .50 cal machine guns;
2 Mk-19 automatic grenade launchers; 6 stinger missiles
Homeport: Little Creek, Va.
Crew: 4 officers, 24 enlisted and 8 Special Forces personnel