Navy
The government spent USD 100 million for two Saar 4 -class corvettes built by Israel Shipyards, a private shipyard in Haifa.
- Sa'ar 4.5 class missile boats - two have been ordered
- 2 Shaldag class fast patrol boat
- 1 Daphne patrol boat - 170 tons full load - commissioned 1963
- 2 Zhuk patrol boats
- 2 Kalkan patrol craft - 8.5 tons full load
- 1 Esturaio de Muni class OPV
- 1 P-183\P-6 class FAC -status unknown.
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Famous quotes containing the word navy:
“I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Give me the eye to see a navy in an acorn. What is there of the divine in a load of bricks? What of the divine in a barber’s shop or a privy? Much, all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)