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Metal Shark to build up to 50 patrol boats for US Navy

The US Navy has awarded shipbuilder Metal Shark a $29.8 contract to build the first eleven of a new generation of patrol boats for the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command’s Coastal Riverine Forces (CRF).

The contract contains options which could see the shipbuilder build 50 boats for a price of $90.2 million. Metal Shark will also be delivering trailers, spares and training packages, and technical support.

Subject to annual appropriations, the navy intends to replace approximately 100 to 160 of its existing 25-foot and 34-foot CRF patrol boats with the larger and more modern PB(X) platform over the next fifteen years.

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