Combat Boat 90
 A Swedish class boat
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Combat Boat 90 (CB90), German: "Combat Boat 90", is the international designation of an originally for the Swedish navy developed speedboat class . The combat boats of this class are characterized, among other things, by an extremely high degree of mobility. The official name for the Swedish Navy was Strb 90 H (Swedish for: Stridsbåt 1990 Halv pluton , German for about: Combat boat 1990 for a half-train ).
Manufacturer
The manufacturer is the Swedish Dockstavarvet shipyard, founded in 1905 . It has produced around 250 to 300 pieces since 1991. The CB90 is the main product of this shipyard. In 2000 Dockstavarvet also took over Rindö, the main repair shop for the Swedish CB90.
In 2013, the Russian Pella Shipyard near Saint Petersburg built the Russian combat boat 03160 "Raptor", which looks similar to the CB90. However, there is no information as to whether Dockstavarvet was involved in the project or whether it granted a license to Pella Shipyard.
Technical specifications
The boats are over all 15,90 meters long (at the waterline 14.90 meters) and 3.80 meters wide. The aluminum makes them very light, compact and flat. The draft is only 80 cm, which means that the boat can operate very close to the coast. The curb weight is 13 tons, the standard weight 15.3 tons, the weight when fully loaded 20.5 tons.
The Combat Boat 90 are two Kamewa -FF- waterjets equipped by two per 480 kW strong Scania -DSI14- V8 - Diesel engines are driven. They reach a speed of around 40 knots . The water jet propulsion, which can be steered within limits, and a special underwater guide profile of the hull make it extremely easy to maneuver, even at high speed. The boat can stop very quickly, the braking distance from maximum speed to zero is only about two and a half boat lengths.
Crew and equipment
In addition to two skippers and a machinist, an amphibious combat unit of up to 21 people can be accommodated with full equipment. The military type CB90 is equipped with three heavy machine guns of the Browning M2 HB type, a 40 mm machine grenade launcher Mk 19 , four sea mines or six depth charges . It can also be used as a rocket carrier vehicle e.g. B. be used for the AGM-114 Hellfire . The type CB90H used by the Swedish police does not carry any military armament.
commitment
The boat was originally developed for the Swedish Navy, where it is used in the Amphibious Corps. It is also used internationally in numerous variants: by the Swedish police (type CB90H), as well as the navy of Norway (there as S90N), Greece , Estonia , Mexico (type CB90HMN) and Malaysia .
Use in Germany
The CB90HEX was first used in Germany as part of the Bush visit to Heiligendamm in 2006. Another deployment took place on the occasion of the G8 summit in 2007 . The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania water police had borrowed a boat from the Swedish shipyard for the occasion. It was used on June 7, 2007 against activists from Greenpeace who had entered the security zone around the conference venue with seven rubber dinghies from the sea. During a chase, the Combat Boat rammed a Greenpeace inflatable boat, the crew of which went overboard but was able to swim back to the boat.
Web links
- Press report FOCUS on the use at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm 2007 , June 7, 2007, with video of the CB90's use against Greenpeace
- Pictures of the Norwegian type S90N
- A combat boat for Heiligendamm , world online press report