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[StartQuote] Hello all I recently found this info on line trying to confirm it's accuracy and learn more. Also would not mind finding an image of this vessel. Info in question: One final "torpedo boat" was built for the U.S. Navy - the CPIC or coastal patrol and interdiction craft. This 100-foot craft was built as a prototype successor for the PT/PTF-type small combatant. The Tacoma Boatbuilding firm in the State of Washington launched the craft in 1974. The U.S. Navy carried out extensive trials. Among the CPIC's special features was a modular weapons configuration to permit rapid changeover to guns, rockets, missiles, torpedoes, and mines. Total weapons payload was ten tons (on a full load displacement of about 75 tons). The craft was propelled by two aircraft-type Avco Lycoming gas turbine engines with an auxiliary diesel; maximum speed was in excess of 40 knots. After U.S. Navy trials, on August 1, 1975, the CPIC was transferred to South Korea. Additional craft of this type were constructed in South Korea. The CPIC was the last U.S. small combatant built with a torpedo capability-the last PT boat. Anti-ship missiles, which could be carried by rela tively small ships as well as large warships, aircraft, and even submarines, had replaced the torpedo. Donald Shannon[EndQuote]
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