I was on a chartered sailboat cruise on Coronado Bay a few years ago Captained by a recently retired SWCC guy. He pointed out a boat way before I saw it. It had a much lower profile than anything in this video. It cruised past us at about 30 knots barely making a sound. He told me it was capable of twice the speed without any more noise. I believe…lol. While everyone else was getting drunk, I was locked in conversation with that guy; such a cool experience!

@Ilus-Mirror

Жыл бұрын

|> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> 4500 containerships × 40 million usd per tankfull minimum (average is by 46 mill) × 10 times per year minimum =? a reason to kill a developer? a reason if no limit of reach plus 50% Speed only with phitovoltaic and windgenerator? by controllfrwaks and psychopaths? which blah about "freedom" |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |>

@ExploringCabinsandMines

Жыл бұрын

Probably a billion dollars.

@Db-gq3lx

Жыл бұрын

Drug smugglers or navy ?

I live in New Orleans, and I saw 2 of these boats being tested. They were pulled by 2 18 wheeler trucks and tested in lake Pontchartrain, glad I was able to witness that!

@crankychris2

Жыл бұрын

very cool...are they modern PT boat?

@jtjames79

Жыл бұрын

​@@crankychris2 give the crew a few manpads and it could be.

@particles343

Жыл бұрын

A few times I was just hanging around the riverwalk and they'd do a show with their large hovercraft. I'd love to see those boats zipping around.

@comfortablynumb9342

Жыл бұрын

I made parts for one in the 90s in Florida and later saw the boat tested at night in Sarasota Bay. It had twin 454 engines and I milled parts for the motor mounts and other stuff.

@MrSwccguy

Жыл бұрын

@@jtjames79 you sir have no idea

The Combatant Craft Assault is 41 feet, NOT 14 feet. You got it backwards.

@Skrillock

Жыл бұрын

Bruh I was thinking aint no way that thing is 14ft..

@byronharano2391

Жыл бұрын

Typo? Happens. I quite often get my age backwards as 15 vs 51. Funny...I am still old despite this error. Lol....

@d.thorpe2046

Жыл бұрын

These Dark Seas videos do this so regularly I swear it's intentional.

@bbmw9029

Жыл бұрын

@@byronharano2391 one would think, before they released the video, the creators would watch the finished video and go "this just doesn't sound right "...

@byronharano2391

Жыл бұрын

@@bbmw9029 I heard 14 feet wide that is at beam. So beam is 14 feet. We all make mistakes. Sometimes giving some room for error is gentlemanly. What you say? I don't put out content like this. But I made errors in Church and people gave me a break. Oops. Enjoy the totality of the content and not the errors.

I made motor mounts and other stuff for a SEAL boat in the 90s. Later we saw the boat being tested at night in the bay. Cool machine.

When I worked on UK Customs boats we often saw US special forces launching boats in Suffolk. On one occasion they watched us recover our RHIB utilising a tow hitch on the front bumper of our Landrover, they were still reversing trailers down the slipway. Next time we saw them all their vehicles had front mounted tow hitches!

@G31mR

Жыл бұрын

I put a hitch ball on the front of my tow vehicle in the late 1990's. Made launching much easier, especially in the dark.

These contemporary PT boats are the street rods of today's armed forces.

@Riskmangler

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

@Evocatorum

Жыл бұрын

The are not PT boats, these are special operations combat delivery boats.

The UK special forces have some ridiculous stealth craft. I used to see them most days when I worked on Type 26, and they are badass. I'd run the other way, but you'd likely be dead before you knew they were there!

@byronharano2391

Жыл бұрын

That old adage, why die tired? Aloha Shipmate Ben!

@chrisvalford

Жыл бұрын

I built some of them in Portchester, more interesting than some of the super-yachts I worked on afterwards.

@vxrdrummer

Жыл бұрын

@@byronharano2391 Morning shippers!

@vxrdrummer

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisvalford wicked! You build them good!

@lumptonk4394

Жыл бұрын

Why have amazing boats (and aircraft carriers) when little boats cross the channel from France unchallenged? UK being invaded on near daily basis

So 'Thunder in Paradise' was on to something, all they are missing is the Hulk.

Since the days of our WW2 paratroopers, the different modes of travel have been more than a specialized mode of transportation for the different special operations. They are also a test bed for assaults by the less than Special Operation forces, not unlike helicopters and the river patrol boats used in the Viet Nam War

I want a DARK SEAS t-shirt with "MOREOVER!" on it. 😉

@Canis_Lupus_Rex

Жыл бұрын

Moreover on the front, and However on the back.

@wazza7575

Жыл бұрын

In a really serious looking font.

So, basically... we made some really, really awesome narco-subs. Lol.

@thefrenchbaguette919

Жыл бұрын

Yep basically

I see these all the time around Charleston. They get fuel at public docks and will leave them unattended for extended period’s. Not that secret. Literally have pictures of them on my phone. 😂

@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM

Жыл бұрын

When do you wanna head down and grab a couple? 🤷‍♂️

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they're not secret... just interesting. I saw them driving on the highway when they were new and grabbed a pic.

@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM

Жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Who tf said they were secret? 🤷‍♂️ I just want to "tactically acquire" a few of them for...... just in case.

@stevebaldrick9058

Жыл бұрын

You saw the crafts unattended? Interesting .

I can say that the ccm and cch both throw a pretty good swell from seeing their sea trials.

I think "stealth" boats can also be fishing boats because their everywhere.

@zachdebuhr6347

Жыл бұрын

That's usually the case, something like this would only be used in a denial zone where no boats are allowed

It's common to see UK 'stealth boats' ripping up the Solent between the Isle of Wight and the mainland.. Saw the being constructed in Portsmouth Dockyard years ago. But we we told NOT to film them..

I am a fan of the Freedom class LCS and a few of them would fit inside. Since the issues have been fixed. The LCS would be a great mothership for these vessels. Also recently their is talk about the LCS being motherships for drones.

I have some pics of the SEALION as it was pulling out of the fab shop out in Clackamas Oregon... pretty neat traffic jam

DARK “_____” are my favorite channels! Great stories, great history, great voiceover! All-around, excellent!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

That sea lion looks incredible

I got the unique privilege of being able to climb around IN one of the SEALIONs we had in the shop; they're cooler on the inside than they are on the outside.

Super interesante este video ya que yo no conocía estos 3⃣tipos de lancha !. Muchas gracias 👍.

6:55 This was where I worked in 2005, MacDill AFB. They stopped at our dock to go to the bathroom!

You say the CCA is only 14’ long. No way! Unless those crew are two feet tall. Those are at least forty feet, probably more like 41’ as per the specification in numerous articles!

Yes, I remember them well.

Just in time for DniPro operations… 😈

the alligator and sea lion scream Mean. those things are mobile weapons and i wouldn't want one bearing down on me ya feel

Taking the motor torpedo boat to the next level.

Some of these boats have been used here in Sweden. Training missions together with swedish forces.

@hoplophobia7014

Жыл бұрын

CB-90 is such a great design, and the jets are from Kokkola

Thank you

Right On Go Army!

Please do a video about Laffey (Benson class destroyer DD-459)

Reminds me of running the VSV out of Rudee Inlet back in the day.

"Thunder in paradise" ;)

That gun’s barrel is glowing 2:25

Is the large water ski hitch on the first boat to get the antennas away from the composite body?

Would be cool to integrate the switchblade loiter munitions into these guys especially the sea lion. They can easily be replaced and would be so awesome if these boats had an eye in the sky with an anti tank missile on it, wood give these craft a huge advantage and higher survivability

@MrSwccguy

Жыл бұрын

Bro literally have no idea lol

@stevebean1234

Жыл бұрын

That’s old news, they already have. Switchblades are not ISR birds. The anti-tank version is the much larger Switchblade 600 which wasn’t even in inventory until the US decided to send them to Ukraine.

Thanx for the arrow in the thumbnail, I almost missed it

I swear, it's like some one watched Hulk Hogan's "Thunder in Paradise" movie.

Of COURSE they've been spotted. Crew familiarization. VERY difficult to hold a manual in one hand and accomplish the mission while wearing night vision gear.

Right around this timeline....A friend of mine's brother disappeared over seas. His family believed he was a worker for a military contractor and that he worked on marine craft development for the US military, secret stuff as he would never discuss his actual work. After a time passed of his disappearance the government admitted to his family that he worked for the CIA and although missing, they would not confirm his death. Only that he went missing during a shakedown cruise/delivery of a boat...he brother told me confined in him once saying, 'you should see the small craft we are developing for the special forces." This might very well have been the program that Dark Seas is highlighting here.

the SEALION reminds me of the stealth boat from the re-make of McHale's Navy from the 90s with Tom Arnold

@coleycole2381

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking 1995 "thunder in paradise " with hulk hogan lol had to look up the name.

Seen a sea lion trying to be loaded into a C17 once years ago when I was active duty

Used to build these, they are made here in Portland Oregon

Just saw sealion 1 out on the columbia had me do a doubletake

Dont worry we still love ya and the content its orignal regaurdless

Nice stuff.

Reminds me of the low-profile cartel drug smuggling "submarines"

The back of the cca and cca have panels that flip up or slide up on the ccm to creat a more Discrete profile for radar because the paint has carbon nanotubes to absorb radar we tested it out by sneaking up on other navy ships and by playing hid and sneak with the helicopter squadrons the only problem is the computers shut down if you hit a wave to hard lol

@Carmas97

Жыл бұрын

We also launched switchblade drones which explode on impact 🙃

Its like the modern navy found archives of old ironclads for inspiration.

Been around since the 90s i guess everyone forgot about thunder in paradise lol😂

Pretty funny hearing the CCA is 14 feet long!! C’mon, get your facts straight! 14 foot, SERIOUSLY!! LMAO….

To be, they could design it with a flip a switch, and they turn the submarines or hall to torpedoes for defensive like the old PT boats.

Shiiiiiieeeet.. All the cool boats are being given to the Virginia Beach boys - we get the leftovers in Little Creek.

A "fourteen foot" boat with two diesels and a crew of four? Cozy!

Where do you get your sources please

But where do you mount the fishing poles?

Those a some big 14 feet.

60 mph on water is pretty fast

@MikeOxlong-

Жыл бұрын

Meh… 🤷‍♂️ It’s not REALLY that fast. I mean that’s the standard speed jetski’s have run literally forever… Edit: Also, go-fast or cigar boats typically go up to twice that speed, and newer ones 3x (or 180mph)!!!

@johnnycee5179

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeOxlong- you don't think so? Jump out of a boat doing 60 mph and see if ya live to talk about it. Granted there are faster but still.

@YouTube_user3333

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnycee5179 skiers often fall at 100kmh and they are fine

@johnnycee5179

Жыл бұрын

@@KZread_user3333 Sony Bono would have something to say about that if he was still alive but hitting that tree is what did it.

SOUNDS LIKE A MODERN PT BOAT MCCHALES NAVY USED ON THEIR PROGRAM.

They had better named one of them "Thunder"!

Realy I like this boats

The boat shown at minute 2:50 - 3:00 you described it as Fourteen Foot. It looks a bit longer to me.

I can only assume that the pictures run during the CCA segment were not of the boat as 14 feet long it was not. 14 meters or 41 feet maybe??

State of the arc technology shows us guys shooting 50cals aha

He's done it again 2:55 "fourteen foot long."No way Hosea.

At 2' 50 ", the CCA is not 14 ft; it is 14 meters. Approx. the same length as the craft it replaced. And littoral is pronounced differently from "literal". Not sure if any of these boats have carried green beret. And of course, there is the CRRC which is not mentioned. The prototype MK5 was a very low RCS signature craft; and these boats are modeled after that of course. Built by US Marine's predecessor; Halter Marine. Many items were added over the years that increase signatures.. And the prototype had three 1200 hp MTU engines delivering 65 knots; the production model was lower powered and speed. And what is the nuclear explosion at 1' 14". Otherwise, great footage, with dramatic narration.

@erikk77

Жыл бұрын

"Po tay toe" or "pa ta toe"? It's a cultural thing. No right way or wrong way of pronunciation.

@richardpaquette8352

Жыл бұрын

@@erikk77 he is saying literal, which is literally wrong. Littoral (as is spelled out in the text under the video scene) is an area in the sea close to shore. Very different things

0:39 How are high calibre machine guns and grenade launchers "stealth features"?

Thank the Lord that we are special friends with the USA!

I think today, we shall go all out guns blazing.

Bad ass!

That would make a great houseboat.

The new secret technology is called “the Columbian coke sub”.

Where can I purchase one of them humdingers?

That can’t be a 14 foot boat. Come on man

Funny thing is these are just the ones we are allowed to know exist, like the navy would show off it's best stuff globally.

Some stealth. I can see it in the thumbnail! :P

I did the propulsion and controls on the Sealion,sea lion 2, RCB, etc. the Israeli alligator too. The video isn’t bad for information on them

@digitalsmoke4694

Жыл бұрын

which one is your favorite?

@ronunderwood5771

Жыл бұрын

Does Banks still supply engines?

@hoplophobia7014

Жыл бұрын

@@digitalsmoke4694 RCB, made by fast boats, the controls were analog, the jets were ff-410s which are really easy to work on, out of all the small boats the RBM is my favorite because it has Vector controls which is so easy to do everything on

@hoplophobia7014

Жыл бұрын

@@ronunderwood5771 you mean scania, Detroit, mtu. I didn’t do the engines, just the controls and jets, everything after the red gear that in some cases is mounted in reverse and is an amp gear.

@billbaxter1989

Жыл бұрын

We’re you working for OIW?

Do these come in life size RC models?

The CCA is 41 feet long, NOT 14 foot as stated on the video.

“It needs to be more pointy”

Several of them at the Danish island Bornholm end of summer 2022

SBS long range incursion vessel is awesome. But try to find details on it 😂

Put “stealth” in the name of a boat or plane, and you can sell an old bus with wings or propellers to anyone in uniform with deep pockets.

I think I saw Ukraine is getting 50 boats from the US..I hope they are like these

Drones - we did launch a Scan Eagle drone (see Capt Philips movie) from a MK 5 off shore San Diego

Needs a live well and rod holders.

Send a copy to ole Don Shipley and his guests. Se what they are willing to say about these boats and their Seals.

Not a secret anymore😂

We drove with them on the Columbia River. Our rescue unit (304th) had a twin engine, 650hp, but this boat did 95+ and was designed like the F-117A that I worked on at Area51.

@vxrdrummer

Жыл бұрын

What is Bob Lazar really like?

@sarge420

Жыл бұрын

He worked down the road. I worked on the Stealth. We didn’t discuss each other’s projects.

@SD-unlimited

Жыл бұрын

Those S5 guys always thought they were better than everyone else.

@hoplophobia7014

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@MrBen527

Жыл бұрын

Right 🙄

WO!

2 “Moreovers”!

I could be wrong but they are wee fast, armed speed boats. Virtually unprotected and when they use up their ammo or run aground or out of fuel they're fucked. Expensive though!

You mean to tell me there's boats made out of materials that don't rust?...say it ain't so

**narco smugglers have entered the chat**

They can cram a AWFULL lot into 14 ft stealth boat these days..THATS ONLY A BIT over 4 METERS !

@kimmer6

Жыл бұрын

Valco makes that one. Has a 10hp Honda 4 stroke and a Minn Kota Edge 45 trolling motor for stealth. Optional armament is a quad 40mm Bofors.

So,... these stealthiest of boats have been spotted around the world recently?... back to the drawing board!😂

Amazing how a modernized pt boat is being used. Minus the torpedoes, JFK would've been proud.

I have a friend that builds these boats in the Deep South that's all I'll say about that but they're silent he said they're out in the golf running this thing 60 Mi an hour and come up on a boat and I don't even hear the damn thing run

2:52 "The fourteen foot long craft". Was that supposed to be 14 metre long craft?

@ionizer24

Жыл бұрын

41 feet. Uncritical editing on the copy writers’ part.

Wow