Boghammar

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Two views of a modified speedboat used in attempted terrorist attack on 5 May 1990

A Boghammar is a a High Speed Patrol Boat (HSPB) manufactured by the Swedish company Boghammar Marin AB for use in coastal patrol.

The term boghammar, sometimes spelled boghammer, has also come to mean an improvised naval fighting vessel, typically used by a local irregular military force and usually being a modified civilian boat or other similar machine. It is a speedboat or fast patrol boat (as used by police for harbor/river patrol) on which is mounted a recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, mortar, or another relatively small weapons system. A boghammar is usually unarmoured.

Boghammars have been used by paramilitary forces to attack offshore oil platforms and civilian shipping, most notably by Iran in the Tanker War, and more recently by Nigerian militants.

[edit] Users

•  Sweden
•  Iran
  • Iranian Navy
•  Philippines
  • Philippine Coast Guard
  • Philippine Navy
  • Philippine Marines
•  Burma

[edit] See also

• Gun Truck
• Tachanka
• Hillbilly armor
• Operation Praying Mantis
• Technical (fighting vehicle)
• Q-ship
• Sea Tigers

[edit] External links

• http://www.boghammar.se/

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